The Medical Messiahs

A Social History of Health Quackery in 20th Century America

By:

James Harvey Young

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

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Description

James Harvey Young describes the development of patent medicines in America from the enactment in 1906 of the Pure Food and Drugs Act through the mid-1960s. Many predicted that the Pure Food and Drugs Act would be the end of harmful nostrums, but Young describes in colorful detail post-Act cases involving manufacturers and promoters of such product

Release date NZ

March 8th, 2015

Author

James Harvey Young

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

522

Series

Princeton Legacy Library

Dimensions

155x235x27

ISBN-13

9780691618302

Product ID

23593882

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