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Journal articles on the topic "Quacks and quackery – History"

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Mehlman, Maxwell J. "Quackery." American Journal of Law & Medicine 31, no. 2-3 (2005): 349–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009885880503100209.

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Everyone condemns medical quackery. Government regulators seek to protect us from it. Alternative providers strive to distance themselves from it. Orthodox medicine wants to stamp it out.The question is: What constitutes “quackery”? How do we distinguish quacks from mainstream practitioners? Even more problematic, how do we distinguish between quackery, which everyone agrees is beyond the pale and therefore should be fair game for sanction, and practices that, while unorthodox, should be tolerated in the interests of promoting medical progress and patient choice? These are particularly challen
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Veesar, Ghulam Yaseen, Ather Akhlaq, and Ahson Qavi Siddiqi. "The Faces of Deceptive Healers: A Scoping Review of Titles and Traits Associated with Quacks across Regions." National Journal of Health Sciences 8, no. 4 (2023): 203–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.21089/njhs.84.0203.

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Abstract: Background: The progress in medical science and the increased accessibility of digital resources have enhanced the convenience for individuals in accessing appropriate treatments. Despite these advancements, quackery continues to persist as a global concern. Throughout history, people have been intrigued by miraculous treatments rooted in faith and trust theories. In ancient times, distinguishing between scientifically approved and unapproved medical practices posed challenges. Ever since medical practices have been taking place, service providers took advantage of people’s unawarene
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Watson, Lindsay R. "Tom Tiddler’s Ground: Irregular Medical Practitioners and Male Sexual Problems in New Zealand, 1858–1908." Medical History 57, no. 4 (2013): 537–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2013.38.

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AbstractIrregular practitioners (‘quacks’) specialising in male sexual problems succeeded in nineteenth-century New Zealand by taking advantage of the growing population of unattached men who were ignorant of their own sexual physiology. The irregulars also profited from the regular practitioners’ acceptance of ill-defined or imaginary male sexual disorders and the side effects of conventional venereal disease treatments, the lack of a clear demarcation between quacks and the regular medical profession, and an increased availability of newspaper advertising. Improvements in the postal system e
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Spoorthy, S., and S. N. Sharanya. "Ocular Complications Secondary to Common Malpractices Followed in Rural Areas – A Tertiary Care Centre Study." TNOA Journal of Ophthalmic Science and Research 61, no. 4 (2023): 454–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tjosr.tjosr_28_23.

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Aim of the Study: To assess the ocular complications associated with common malpractices done in rural area. Materials and Method: A hospital based observational, cross section study. In a year, 38 patients found to have undergone ocular malpractices after considering inclusion and exclusion criteria. Detailed clinical history with ophthalmic examination was done. Results: Out of 38 patients who underwent malpractices, 28 (73.7%) had history of quackery, 4 (10.5%) had history of wrong medicine usage, 3 (7.8%) had history of traditional medicine usage and 3 (7.8%) had multiple causes. Commonest
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Vuković, Igor. "Krivično delo nadrilekarstva i nadriapotekarstva (čl. 254 Krivičnog zakonika)." Harmonius Journal of Legal and Social Studies in South East Europe 13, no. 1 (2025): 311–58. https://doi.org/10.51204/harmonius_24112a.

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The development of conventional medicine throughout history was accompanied by the appearance of quackery. On the one hand, in the absence of trained doctors, people all the same needed treatment, which was generally available only from unqualified persons. On the other hand, this need has generated greed and often deception regarding the expected success in treatment. This caused this phenomenon to be considered a criminal offense in most legislations. However, with the increasing legalization of the so-called complementary (alternative) medicine, whose methods are less scientifically proven,
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Ali, Fareedi Mukram, Roshan K. Uthappa, A. P. Nirmal Raj, and Sanajay Kumar. "A Case Report of the Dental Quackery in a 42 year old Male Patient." Malaysian Journal of Medical and Biological Research 2, no. 2 (2015): 55–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.18034/mjmbr.v2i2.390.

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Dental quackery describes the misinterpretation of the diagnosis and treatment of the dental disease. Most commonly dental quacks are the self-styled experts, whose basic tools are very incompetent and also fraud. It is prevalent in India since many decades. Many dental quacks are practicing roadside, which makes money by doing unethical practice and ultimately hampering patient’s oral health. It is thus challenge to the dental practitioners to fight against dental quackery. Hereby, the article describes a case report of dental quackery in 42 year old male patient.
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Khalid, Shah, Muhammad Zakryya Khan, Muhammad Atif, Mehjabeen Farooqui, Zainullah Kakar, and Muhammad Faheem. "Assessment & Prevalence of Malpractice of Quacks Survey of District Dera Ismail Khan (DIK), Khyber Pakhtoon Khwa (KPK) Pakistan." Siazga Research Journal 1, no. 2 (2022): 73–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.58341/srj.v1i2.14.

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Current study was conducted to address the problem of quackery that is widespread in Dera Ismail Khan Pakistan. During this study number of quacks and Qualified professionals in these areas and different ways of malpractice, practiced by the quacks were included. The study was conducted in all the urban, rural and semi urban area of DIK. Survey based on questionnaire was conducted distributing one in general populations and 2nd distributed among the quacks in the rural, urban and semi urban areas of DIK. Sample size of 150 was set in this regard. The three months duration study was performed t
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Alam, Mohammad. "VIRAL MARKERS." Professional Medical Journal 25, no. 06 (2018): 903–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.29309/tpmj/2018.25.06.279.

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Objectives: To know the prevalence and predisposing risk factors of HBVand HCV in patients undergoing ocular surgery. Study Design: Descriptive study. Setting:Department of Ophthalmology Khyber Medical University Institute of Medical Sciences / K.D.ATeaching Hospital Kohat. Period: January 2015 to December 2016. Materials and Methods: Alladmitted patients in eye ward for surgery. Informed consent was taken from patients. Detailedhistory including surgical, medical treatment, blood transfusion and other relevant was taken. Allthose patients who were not previously diagnosed as HBV and HCV posit
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Khan, Rehan. "Some empirical observations on the correlates of quackery propensity in Sindh's populace." Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association 73, no. 9 (2023): 1887–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.47391/jpma.8053.

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The current research provides an insight into what are the factors that influence people in Sindh to seek medical treatment from a quack. For this purpose an observational qualitative study was carried out between December 1, 2020 and June 30, 2022. The study used a purposive sampling technique, and the sample size was measured using data from anti-quackery campaigns run in 29 Sindh districts. To identify and collect data on quacks, a quackery-regulatory-intervention-induced questionnaire was used. The public's propensity for quacks is due to a number of factors, including: (1) simple and comp
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Poudel, Priyanka, Roshan kumar Roy, Lalan Kumar Mahato, Purushottam Panday, and Sharah Mehnaz Meghla. "Quackery: A Major Persisting Issue in the Dental Profession of Nepal." International Journal of Silkroad Institute of Research and Training 2, no. 1 (2024): 2–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijsirt.v1i2.67651.

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Background: Quackery in the dental profession is a significant and persistent issue in Nepal, particularly in urban areas like Hetauda city. This practice involves the provision of dental services by individuals lacking formal education, training, or licensing, posing serious risks to patient health and safety. Objective: This study aims to assess the prevalence of quackery in Hetauda city, Nepal, and its implications for dental care quality and patient safety. It also seeks to understand the reasons behind patients’ continued use of unlicensed dental practitioners and to provide recommendatio
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Quacks and quackery – History"

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Ling, Sofia. "Kärringmedicin och vetenskap : läkare och kvacksalverianklagade i Sverige omkring 1770-1870 = Old wives' remedies and science : physicians and so-called quacks /." Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis : Univ.-bibl. [distributör], 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-4267.

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Eklöf, Motzi. "Läkarens Ethos : Studier i den svenska läkarkårens identiteter, intressen och ideal 1890-1960." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för hälsa och samhälle, 2000. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-22436.

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Doctors, academically educated and authorized, assert that there is more to being a real doctor than having fulfilled the formal criteria. It has been said that there is a particular doctor's ethos, which is based not only on thorough medical education but also on traditional know-how, internalized ethics and good character. This paper contains several studies of the efforts of Swedish physicians to define themselves as doctors, individually and collectively, during the period 1890-1960 and to identify the ethos of their profession. The empirical material consists mainly of texts written by do
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De, la Pen̂a Carolyn Thomas. "Powering the modern body : theories of energy transfer in American medicine, science, and popular culture, 1875-1945 /." 2001. http://www.lib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3102810.

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Books on the topic "Quacks and quackery – History"

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Young, James Harvey. The medical messiahs: A social history of health quackery in twentieth-century America. Princeton University Press, 1992.

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Helfand, William H. 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. The Grolier Club, 2002.

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Helfand, William H. Quack, quack, quack: The sellers of nostrums in prints, posters, ephemera & books : an exhibition on the frequently excessive and flamboyant seller of nostrums as shown in prints, posters, caricatures, books, pamphlets, advertisements & other graphic arts over the last five centuries. The Grolier Club, 2002.

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Club, Grolier, ed. Quack, quack, quack: The sellers of nostrums in prints, posters, books & ephemera : an exhibition on the frequently excessive and flamboyant seller of nostrums as shown in prints, posters, caricatures, books, pamphlets, advertisements, and other graphic arts over the last five centuries. Grolier Club, 2002.

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Young, James Harvey. The medical messiahs: A social history of health quackery in twentieth-century America. Princeton University Press, 1992.

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David, Armstrong. The great American medicine show: Being an illustrated history of hucksters, healers, health evangelists, and heroes from Plymouth Rock to the present. Prentice Hall, 1991.

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Ling, Sofia. Kärringmedicin och vetenskap: Läkare och kvacksalverianklagade i Sverige omkring 1770-1870. Uppsala Universitet, 2004.

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Gambaccini, Piero. I mercanti della salute: Le segrete virtù dell'imbroglio in medicina. Le lettere, 2000.

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Podgorny, Irina. Charlatanes: Crónicas de remedios incurables. Eterna Cadencia Editora, 2012.

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Cosmacini, Giorgio. Ciarlataneria e medicina: Cure, maschere, ciarle. R. Cortina, 1998.

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McGrew, Roderick E. "Quackery." In Encyclopedia of Medical History. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05429-9_15.

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Porter, Roy. "Before the Fringe: ‘Quackery’ and the Eighteenth-Century Medical Market." In Studies in the History of Alternative Medicine. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19606-7_1.

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Cooper, Jonathan. "10. Alphabet Pies, Animal Quacks, and Ugly Sisters: John Evans and the Growth of Cheap Books for Children." In Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century. Open Book Publishers, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0347.10.

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The printer and bookseller John Evans was, in the last decade of the eighteenth century, seemingly prolonging the lifespan of the type of publication that had hitherto typified the Aldermary Churchyard press and which it was abandoning in search of ‘respectability’. The place of business Evans established for his work, and which was retained by his family for a further forty-five years, was originally John Marshall’s, and what seems to have been his ‘big break’ came courtesy of Marshall when he fell out of favour with the patrons of the Cheap Repository Tracts. Nevertheless, Evans had a distin
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Kassell, Lauren. "The College of Physicians and Irregular Medicine in London, c.1580-1640." In Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London. Oxford University PressOxford, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199279050.003.0005.

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Abstract When the noxious summer airs had cleared, the physicians returned to the city. The College met in November 1592 and they discussed ‘the insolent and illicit practice of the quacks ‘ and unanimously decided ‘to summon them all ‘.1 For man was one of the many irregular medical practitioners (often referred to as ‘empirics ‘) who thrived in the periodic absences of the physicians, and he appears in histories of medicine as a typical example of the insolent, irrational, uneducated medical practitioner. He was named in the College Annals ten times between 1594 and 16rn, and in the late sev
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Rosenberg, Anat. "Advertising and Science." In The Rise of Mass Advertising. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192858917.003.0005.

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Abstract Chapter 4 examines the relationship between advertising and science in the historical debate about medical quackery. Tensions escalated in the second half of the nineteenth century, as regular medicine sought closer imbrications with science, while the market for quackery expanded and its imperatives for doctors and patients intensified and put pressure on regular medicine. Boundary anxieties were addressed by a legally supported cultural division of labour between the market and science, which we can find in medical ethical codes as well as libel and fraud litigation that dealt with
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"20. The Perennial Proneness Reflections on the complex motivations that have made mankind so readily susceptible to the quack's appeal." In The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Medical Quackery in 20th Century America. Princeton University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400868698-021.

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Gratzer, Walter. "Fads and Quacks." In Terrors of the Table. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192806611.003.0010.

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Abstract There is nothing new about dietary fads. One might argue that the Galenic theories about the kinds of foods suitable for the young, the old, or the sick (Chapter 3) amounted to little else. Nor for that matter do the dietary rules prescribed by religions, which have (and had) little to do with the preservation of health. But the 19th century saw the flowering of science, and with it of pseudo-science, and this, allied to the growth of prosperity, at least in Europe and North America, diverted people’s minds from the problems of staying alive to the allure of staying alive for ever. So
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Higby, Gregory, and Elaine C. Stroud. "Patent Medicines and Quackery." In The History of Pharmacy. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429021398-16.

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"18. Anti-Quackery, Inc. A more cohesive effort to combat quackery, prompted by quackery's burgeoning." In The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Medical Quackery in 20th Century America. Princeton University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400868698-019.

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Jonsen, Albert R. "Renaissance and Enlightenment: Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries." In A Short History of Medical Ethics. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195369847.003.0004.

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Abstract European medicine entered the fourteenth century well ensconced in the universities and, to some extent, regulated by civil authorities. Orthodoxies had formed around the classical medical texts and their commentaries. The medical literature was studied side by side with scientific, moral, political, and theological literature. Guilds of physicians had formed, and a nascent profession had appeared. The scholarly physicians, who had “read” medicine and could justify their diagnoses and therapies by reference to a text and a theory were a small island in the sea of semiliterate practiti
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