American Health Quackery
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-60036-9 (ISBN)
The case of Laetrile illustrates how an alleged vitamin for controlling cancer could be ballyhooed and lobbied into a national mania, half the states passing laws giving the cyanide-containing drug some special status. And AIDS is the most recent example of an illness that, tragically, has panicked some of its victims and members of the general public into putting their hopes in fake cures and preventives. Young discusses the complex question of vulnerability--why people fall victim to health fraud--and considers the difficulties confronting governmental regulators. From the late 1960s to the early 1990s, the annual quackery toll has escalated from two billion to over twenty-five billion dollars. Young helps us discover why. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
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PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPt. ITelling WhyPrologue: A Quota of Quotations on Quackery3Ch. 1Getting into Quackery6Pt. IISeeking PatternsCh. 2Quackery and the American Mind23Ch. 3"The Foolmaster Who Fooled Them"32Ch. 4Folk into Fake50Pt. IIIGiving CounselCh. 5Health Quackery: A Historian's Advice81Ch. 6The Regulation of Health Quackery89Pt. IVConsidering ThemesCh. 7The Long Struggle against Quackery in Dentistry107Ch. 8"Even to a Sucking Infant": Nostrums and Children125Ch. 9The Marketing of Patent Medicines in Lincoln's Springfield158Ch. 10Nutritional Eccentricities165Pt. VNarrating CasesCh. 11"Euclid + Lincoln = Kent"187Ch. 12When Folk Medicine Flourished in the Shadows of Grady Hospital199Ch. 13Laetrile in Historical Perspective205Ch. 14AIDS and Deceptive Therapies256Index287
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.7.2014 |
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Reihe/Serie | Princeton Legacy Library |
Verlagsort | New Jersey |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 425 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik | |
Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
ISBN-10 | 0-691-60036-8 / 0691600368 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-60036-9 / 9780691600369 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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