Search results for [Quacks and quackery] at NC Cardinal

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MediScams : how to spot and avoid health care scams, medical frauds, and quackery from the local physician to the major health care providers and drug manufacturers / by Whitlock, Charles R.(CARDINAL)618421;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-303).

Subjects: Fraud; Medical care, Cost of.; Quacks and quackery;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Quackery, a $10 billion scandal : a report / by United States.Congress.House.Select Committee on Aging.Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care.(CARDINAL)138149;

Bibliography: pages 240-242.

Subjects: Arthritis; Cancer; Deceptive advertising; Older people; Quacks and quackery; Swindlers and swindling;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Snake oil, hustlers and hambones : the American medicine show / by Anderson, Ann,1951-(CARDINAL)701435;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Quacks and quackery; Medicine shows; Healers; Patent medicines;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Fraudulent medical and insurance promotions : Cleveland, Ohio : hearing before the Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care of the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, June 30, 1982. by United States.Congress.House.Select Committee on Aging.Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care.(CARDINAL)138149;

Subjects: Older consumers; Advertising, Direct-mail; Deceptive advertising; Health insurance; Quacks and quackery;

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Prince of quacks : the notorious life of Dr. Francis Tumblety, Charlatan and Jack the Ripper suspect / by Riordan, Timothy B.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-229) and index.Early life (1830-1856) -- Practicing in Toronto (1856-1857) -- Montreal troubles (1857-1858) -- Back in Toronto (1858-1859) -- Manslaughter in St. John (1859-1860) -- Travels in the East (1860-1861) -- Civil War Washington (1861-1863) -- A year in Brooklyn (1863-1864) -- Arrest in St. Louis (1865) -- Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and back to Brooklyn (1866-1869) -- Europe and the West (1869-1873) -- English interlude (1873-1880) -- New York City years (1880-1888) -- Whitechapel murders (1888) -- The aftermath in New York (1888-1890) -- Retirement (1891-1903) -- Final act (1903-1910)."This biography of nineteenth century doctor Francis Tumblety. The doctor's exploits include arrests for complicity in the Lincoln assassination, for selling abortion drugs, for killing patients, and for indecent assault, and scrutiny as a possible suspect in the "Jack the Ripper" murders. Tumblety's sheen of respectability appeared crafted to cover his homosexuality and his provocative fields of practice"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects: Biographies.; Jack, the Ripper.; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Tumblety, Francis, 1830-1903.; Criminals; Irish Americans; Quacks and quackery;

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Incurable me : why the best medical research does not make it into clinical practice / by Stoller, K. Paul,author.(CARDINAL)604418;

Includes bibliographical references (page 170-190)and index.Normalized failure -- The house of Lyme -- Dementia: are all getting Dicofo(o)'d -- The dystopic war on discernment, or human colony collapse disorder (thanks for all the fish!) -- Multiple Sclerosis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease, what a pile of ... -- Traumatic brain injury and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy -- Mercury in medicine - quacks, quackery and Quacksalber -- The religion of Jabism - a special chapter on vaccines -- On diagnosing and treating toxic / infectious / immune encephalopathy and other chronic illness.

Subjects: Business and medicine; Medicine;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3

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MediScams : dangerous medical practices and health care frauds and how to prevent them from harming you and your family. by Whitlock, Charles R.(CARDINAL)618421;

Subjects: Fraud; Quality of Health Care; Medical care, Cost of;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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