Quack medicine : a history of combating health fraud in twentieth-century America
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Quack medicine : a history of combating health fraud in twentieth-century America
（Healing society : disease, medicine, and history / series editor, John Louis Parascandola）
Praeger, c2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-229) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
Throughout the 20th century, anti-quackery crusaders investigated, exposed, and attempted to regulate allegedly fraudulent therapeutic approaches to health and healing under the banner of consumer protection and a commitment to medical science. Quack Medicine: A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America reveals how efforts to establish an exact border between quackery and legitimate therapeutic practices and medications have largely failed, and details the reasons for this failure.
Digging beneath the surface, the book uncovers the history of allegedly fraudulent therapies including pain medications, obesity and asthma cures, gastrointestinal remedies, virility treatments, and panaceas for diseases such as arthritis, asthma, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS. It shows how efforts to combat alleged medical quackery have been connected to broader debates among medical professionals, scientists, legislators, businesses, and consumers, and it exposes the competing professional, economic, and political priorities that have encouraged the drawing of arbitrary, vaguely defined boundaries between good medicine and "quack medicine."
目次
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
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