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The Great American Medicine Show: Being an Illustrated History of Hucksters, Healers, Health Evangelists and Heroes...
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by David Armstrong and Elizabeth Metzger Armstrong
Sales Rank: 184416
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$5.00
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 292 pages
Published by: Prentice Hall GeneralEdition: 1st Edition November 1991
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0133640272
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0133640274
Book Dimensions:
11 x 8.8 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 1.6 pounds
From Library Journal
This extensively illustrated, whimsically categorized, and wittily written compendium is distinctly oriented toward the bizarre, the ridiculous, the unusual, and the sublime: for every medical hero here, there are a dozen or more goats. As such, it is not a reference of first resort for information about the successes of medical progress, but rather an often funny, occasionally eye-opening, and clever gathering of misbegotten theory, outright fraud, and zealous charlatanism. Hidden within are good overviews of medicine shows, osteopathy, physical fitness, and dieting. Most of the information is historical and anecdotal, and the bibliography is thorough. This is for popular history of medicine collections.
- Mark L. Shelton, Athens, Ohio
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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