Marketplace of the Marvelous: The Strange Origins of Modern Medicine

by Erika Janik

Book Overview

An entertaining introduction to the quacks, snake-oil salesmen, and charlatans, who often had a point Despite rampant scientific innovation in nineteenth-century America, traditional medicine still... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080702208X
• ISBN13: 9780807022085
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"