Description: Further DetailsTitle: QuackeryCondition: NewEAN: 9780761189817ISBN: 9780761189817Publisher: Workman AdultFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/17/2017Item Height: 203mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Lydia Kang, Nate PedersenLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure EverythingDescription: What won’t we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine—yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison—was dosed like Viagra. Looking back with fascination, horror, and not a little dash of dark, knowing humor, Quackery recounts the lively, at times unbelievable, history of medical misfires and malpractices. Ranging from the merely weird to the outright dangerous, here are dozens of outlandish, morbidly hilarious “treatments”—conceived by doctors and scientists, by spiritualists and snake oil salesmen (yes, they literally tried to sell snake oil)—that were predicated on a range of cluelessness, trial and error, and straight-up scams. With vintage illustrations, photographs, and advertisements throughout, Quackery seamlessly combines macabre humor with science and storytelling to reveal an important and disturbing side of the ever-evolving field of medicine.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: MedicineISBN-10: 0761189815Item Width: 26mmItem Weight: 680gRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Quackery
Title: Quackery
EAN: 9780761189817
ISBN: 9780761189817
Release Date: 10/17/2017
Release Year: 2017
Subtitle: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Medicine
ISBN-10: 0761189815
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Name: Quackery : a Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
Language: English
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 1.1 in
Subject: Topic / Business & Professional, Social History, History
Item Weight: 24.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.2 in
Author: Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
Subject Area: Humor, History, Medical
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
