Quack medicine : a history of combating health fraud in twentieth-century America / Eric W. Boyle.

Author/creator Boyle, Eric W.
Other author ProQuest (Firm)
Format Electronic
Publication InfoSanta Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, 2013.
Descriptionxxii, 239 pages.
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Subjects

SeriesHealing society--disease, medicine, and history
Healing society--disease, medicine, and history. ^A1048221
Contents Introduction -- Quackery unmasked -- Rationalizing and regulating the therapeutic marketplace -- Marketing medicines in an age of reform -- Propaganda for reform -- A new deal for quackery -- Redefining quackery in the age of wonder drugs -- Reviving the anti-quackery crusade in the 1950s and 1960s -- Redefining quackery in the closing decades of the twentieth century.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012028059

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