The Medical Messiahs : A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America

By James Harvey Young

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0835738493
• ISBN13: 9780835738491
• Release Date: January 1967
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 7.9"