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Pseudoscience : an amusing history of crackpot ideas and why we love them / by Kang, Lydia,author.(CARDINAL)349637; Pedersen, Nate,author.(CARDINAL)349636;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-296) and index.Introduction --"More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle originated the scientific method. And it's been an uphill battle ever since. Instead of sticking to what the evidence proves, we love to believe in things like the Bermuda Triangle, personality tests, crop circles, Bigfoot, spontaneous human combustion, and UFOs. Covering everything from the easily disproved to the wildly speculative, hucksterism to conspiracy theories, Pseudoscience is an entertaining, compulsively readable, and visually rich look at the history of the bizarre and our all-too-human weakness to fall for things scientifically suspect. But also, let's be honest--the earth does seem kind of flat."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Pseudoscience.; Quacks and quackery.;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 12
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Nostrums and quackery : articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted, with additions and modifications, from the Journal of the American medical association. by American Medical Association.(CARDINAL)121216;
V.1 and v. 2 -- Nostrums and quackery v. 3 -- Nostrums and quackery and pseudo-medicine.
Subjects: Quacks and quackery.; Patent medicines.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The medical messiahs; a social history of health quackery in twentieth-century America. by Young, James Harvey.(CARDINAL)173667;
Bibliographical footnotes.
Subjects: Quacks and quackery;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Quackery : a brief history of the worst ways to cure everything / by Kang, Lydia,author.(CARDINAL)349637; Pedersen, Nate,author.(CARDINAL)349636;
Elements: prescriptions from the periodic table -- Mercury -- Antimony -- Arsenic -- Gold -- Radium & radon -- The women's health hall of shame -- Plants & soil: nature's gifts -- Opiates -- Strychnine -- Tobacco -- Cocaine -- Alcohol -- Earth -- The antidotes hall of shame -- Tools: slicing, dicing, dousing, and draining -- Bloodletting -- Lobotomy -- Cautery & blistering -- Enemas & clysters-- Hydrotherapy & the cold water cure -- Surgery -- Anesthesia -- The men's health hall of shame -- Animals: creepy crawlies, corpses, and the healing power of the human body -- Leeches -- Cannibalism & corpse medicine -- Animal-derived medicines -- Sex -- Fasting -- The weight loss hall of shame -- Mysterious powers: waves, rays, and curious airs -- Electricity -- Animal magnetism -- Light -- Radionics -- The king's touch -- The eye care hall of shame -- The cancer cure hall of shame."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"--
Subjects: Quacks and quackery; Medicine;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 12
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The cure for everything : untangling twisted messages about health, fitness, and happiness / by Caulfield, Timothy A.,1963-(CARDINAL)647672;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-225) and index."With the goal of getting to the truth about our health, this book looks at both what the best available scientific evidences tells us about the role of fitness, diet, genetics and health remedies and the social forces that twist and distort what that evidence actually says"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Health; Quacks and quackery;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Quackery : a $10 billion scandal : hearing before the Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care of the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, May 31, 1984. by United States.Congress.House.Select Committee on Aging.Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care.(CARDINAL)138149;
Subjects: Quacks and quackery; Quacks and quackery;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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My year of rest and relaxation / by Moshfegh, Ottessa,author.(CARDINAL)355912;
"Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be."
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Solitude; Quacks and quackery; Medication abuse;
Available copies: 20 / Total copies: 32
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Quack, quack, quack : the sellers of nostrums in prints, posters, ephemera & books : an exhibition on the frequently excessive & flamboyant seller of nostrums as shown in prints, posters, caricatures, books, pamphlets, advertisements & other graphic arts over the last five centuries / by Helfand, William H.(CARDINAL)167383; Grolier Club.(CARDINAL)265429;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-243) and index.Preface -- On quackery -- The quack -- Identifying quacks -- Common traits -- Regulars vs. irregulars -- Drugs on the market -- Advertising -- Growth & decline -- The persistence of quackery -- The itinerant quack -- The ways of the quack -- Systems -- Morison's Pills -- Vin Mariani -- Anatomical museums & medicine shows -- Selling sex cures -- Addiction & electricity cures -- Quacks in the arts -- The evils of quackery.
Subjects: Posters.; Exhibition catalogs.; Quacks and quackery; Quacks and quackery in art.; Quacks and quackery in literature.; Medicine; Graphic arts;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The great American medicine show : being an illustrated history of hucksters, healers, health evangelists, and heroes from Plymouth Rock to the present / by Armstrong, David.(CARDINAL)761327; Armstrong, Elizabeth Metzger.(CARDINAL)747745;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-283) and index.
Subjects: Medicine shows; Quacks and quackery;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Are aliens real? / by Perish, Patrick.(CARDINAL)401844;
Includes bibliographical references and index.What are aliens? -- First reports -- Alien stories -- Exposing the fakes -- What's the evidence."Presents famous alien stories and briefly examines the claims, ultimately stating there is no hard proof of aliens"--Provided by publisher.K to grade 3510LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Extraterrestrial beings; Quacks and quackery;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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