The Medical Messiahs

by Young, James Harvey

• ISBN13: 9780691005799
• ISBN10: 0691005796
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-06-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Brane-Fude: The first court trial under the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act	p. 3
The Lawless Centuries: History and stage-setting for health quackery in 20th-century America	p. 13
A Decade of Enforcement: Valiant efforts, a Supreme Court defeat, and ambiguous help from Congress	p. 41
Fraud in the Mails: Enforcement of postal fraud statutes from the late 19th century through the 1920's	p. 66
B. and M.: A decade-long effort to prove fraud in court during the golden glow of prosperity	p. 88
"Truth in Advertising": Cooperative efforts by the self-regulators and the Federal Trade Commission to restrict the most flagrant abuses of nostrum advertising	p. 113
The New Muckrakers: The American Medical Association keeps muck-raking currents flowing until the next floodtide: the "guinea pig" school of critics	p. 129
The New Deal and the New Laws: The hotly contested effort to make federal controls over self-medication drugs more nearly adequate to social need	p. 158
In Pursuit of the Diminishing Promise: Food and Drug Administration use of the new law to drive false claims from labeling step by step through court interpretation	p. 191
Two Gentlemen from Indiana: A diabetes clinic run by two physician-brothers named Kaadt	p. 217
The Gadget Boom: Device quackery in America, highlighting Ruth B. Drown's Radio Therapeutic Instrument	p. 239
The Chemotherapeutic Revolution: The way the "wonder drugs" era of prescription medication influenced patterns of self-medication	p. 260
Mail-Order "Health": The Post Office Department's contest with medical fraud since the 1930s	p. 282
Proprietary Advertising and the Wheeler-Lea Act: The triumphs and failures of the Federal Trade Commission in aiming its 1938 law against abuses in the advertising of self-medication wares	p. 296
Medicine Show Impresario: A Louisiana state senator and his medicine show for Hadacol	p. 316
"You Are What You Eat": Nutrition nonsense by spielers and door-to-door salesmen: Adolphus Hohensee the main exhibit	p. 333
"The Most Heartless" : Cancer quackery, especially the protracted Harry Hoxsey case	p. 360
Anti-Quackery, Inc.: A more cohesive effort to combat quackery, prompted by quackery's burgeoning	p. 390
Turmoil on the Drug Scene: New frights, a new law, and new awareness of the need for better comprehension of the phenomenon of quackery	p. 408
The Perennial Proneness: Reflections on the complex motivations that have made mankind so readily susceptible to the quack's appeal	p. 423
Afterword	p. 435
A Note on the Sources	p. 472
Index	p. 481
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