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This timely volume illustrates how and why the fight against quackery in modern America has largely failed, laying the blame on an unlikely confluence of scientific advances, regulatory reforms, changes in the medical profession, and the politics of consumption.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One: Quackery Unmasked Chapter Two: Rationalizing and Regulating the Therapeutic Marketplace Chapter Three: Marketing Medicines in an Age of Reform Chapter Four: Propaganda for Reform Chapter Five: A New Deal for Quackery Chapter Six: Redefining Quackery in the Age of Wonder Drugs Chapter Seven: Reviving the Antiquackery Crusade in the 1950s and 1960s Chapter Eight: Redefining Quackery in the Closing Decades of the Twentieth Century Notes Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author

Eric W. Boyle, PhD, is guest researcher in the Office of History at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.

Reviews

The quality of this work, part of the Health Society: Disease, Medicine, and History series, is exceptional; it will be a useful historical resource for library collections. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels.
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