Stories
- Article
The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
- In pictures
Tesla, quacks and violet rays
Imagine a device that can treat everything from baldness to gout. Too good to be true? Yes, and it was banned – but not before hundreds were hoodwinked.
- Article
Graphic battles in pharmacy
James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.
- Article
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
- Audio
Quacks, a lecture by Roy Porter.
Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.Date: 1990- Books
- Online
Physicians and quacks.
Date: 1862- Books
Quacks, rogues and charlatans / Paul Strathern.
Strathern, PaulDate: 2015- Books
Quacks' paradise / [Sidney Fairway].
Fairway, Sidney, pseud.Date: [1938]- Books
- Online
Quacks and quack-medicines.
Date: [1839]