Stories
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The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
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Graphic battles in pharmacy
James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.
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The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth
Our era of fake news and medical misinformation is nothing new. Estelle Paranque relays the thrusts and parries of a 440-year-old row over a magical cure-all, the unicorn horn.
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Rethinking the placebo effect
The placebo effect has long been harnessed for both legitimate and fraudulent use, but we’re only just discovering how and why our bodies respond positively to dummy drugs, as Anjuli Sharma reveals.
Catalogue
- Books
Quack medicine : a history of combating health fraud in twentieth-century America / Eric W. Boyle.
Boyle, Eric W.Date: [2013], ©2013- Books
The golden days of Doctor Quack / adapted by Leo Harris from a radio programme by Leo Knowles.
Knowles, LeoDate: 1975- Books
Gerald J. Macaura : Anglo-American quack / J.O. Baylen.
Baylen, Joseph O.Date: 1974- Books
Medical adventures and memoirs of Manucci : "an Italian quack doctor in India in the second half of the seventeenth century" / by D.V.S. Reddy.
Subba Reddy, D. V., 1899-1987.Date: 1962- Student dissertations
James Graham : 'doctor of medicine and lover of his species..' or simply a quack? / Hannah Baynes.
Baynes, Hannah.Date: 1997