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 Info | Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, 2013. |
| Description | xxii, 239 pages. |
| Supplemental Content | Click to View |
| Subjects |
| Series | Healing 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012028059 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |