Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen

Quackery (eBook, ePUB)

A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 strychnineyes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poisonwas 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Workman Publishing Company
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781523501854
• Artikelnr.: 48151095

Autorenporträt

Nate Pedersen is a librarian, historian, and freelance journalist with over 400 publications in print and online, including in the Guardian, the Believer, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Art of Manliness. Nate is a contributing writer for the magazine Fine Books & Collections, where he investigates the strange and unusual side of the rare-book market.