The Great American Medicine Show
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The Great American Medicine Show
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Author : David Armstrong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
The Great American Medicine Show written by David Armstrong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Medical categories.
Beginning with early American medicine, the Armstrongs profile some of the best-known medical figures, divine healers, medicine men, reformers, and just plain quacks, and delineate the kinds of treatment they championed. Includes some 100 interesting and often humorous illustrations of historic advertisements, cartoons, and the like. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Great American Medicine Show
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Author : Spencer Klaw
language : en
Publisher: Viking Adult
Release Date : 1975
The Great American Medicine Show written by Spencer Klaw and has been published by Viking Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Medical care categories.
Snake Oil Hustlers And Hambones
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Author : Ann Anderson
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-09-01
Snake Oil Hustlers And Hambones written by Ann Anderson and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-01 with History categories.
Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment and promised cures for everything from corns to cancer. Combining elements of the circus, theater, vaudeville, and good old-fashioned entrepreneurship, the showmen of the American medicine show sold tonics, ointments, pills, extracts and a host of other "wonder-cures," guaranteed to "cure what ails you." While the cures were seldom miraculous, the medicine show was an important part of American culture and of performance history. Harry Houdini, Buster Keaton, and P.T. Barnum all took a turn upon the medicine show stage. This study of the medicine show phenomenon surveys nineteenth century popular entertainment and provides insight into the ways in which show business, advertising, and medicine manufacture developed in concert. The colorful world of the medicine show, with its Wild West shows, pie-eating contests, clowns, and menageries, is fully explored. Photographs of performers and of the fascinating handbills and posters used to promote the medicine show are included.
Healing Waters
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Author : Jeremy Agnew
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2019-03-11
Healing Waters written by Jeremy Agnew and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-11 with History categories.
Modern spas are wellness resorts that offer beauty treatments, massages and complementary therapies. Victorian spas were sanitariums, providing "water cure" treatments supplemented by massage, vibration, electricity and radioactivity. Rooted in the palliative health reforms of the early 19th century, spas of the Victorian Age grew out of the hydrotherapy institutions of the 1840s--an alternative to the horrors of bleeding and purging. The regimen focused on diet, rest, cessation of alcohol and foods that upset the stomach, stress reduction and plenty of water. The treatments, though sometimes of a dubious nature, formed the transition from the primitive methods of "heroic medicine" to the era of scientifically based practices.
An American Health Dilemma
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Author : W. Michael Byrd
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2012-10-02
An American Health Dilemma written by W. Michael Byrd and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-02 with History categories.
At times mirroring and at times shockingly disparate to the rise of traditional white American medicine, the history of African-American health care is a story of traditional healers; root doctors; granny midwives; underappreciated and overworked African-American physicians; scrupulous and unscrupulous white doctors and scientists; governmental support and neglect; epidemics; and poverty. Virtually every part of this story revolves around race. More than 50 years after the publication of An American Dilemma, Gunnar Myrdal's 1944 classic about race relations in the USA, An American Health Dilemma presents a comprehensive and groundbreaking history and social analysis of race, race relations and the African-American medical and public health experience. Beginning with the origins of western medicine and science in Egypt, Greece and Rome the authors explore the relationship between race, medicine, and health care from the precursors of American science and medicine through the days of the slave trade with the harrowing middle passage and equally deadly breaking-in period through the Civil War and the gains of reconstruction and the reversals caused by Jim Crow laws. It offers an extensive examination of the history of intellectual and scientific racism that evolved to give sanction to the mistreatment, medical abuse, and neglect of African Americans and other non-white people. Also included are biographical portraits of black medical pioneers like James McCune Smith, the first African American to earn a degree from a European university, and anecdotal vignettes,like the tragic story of "the Hottentot Venus", which illustrate larger themes. An American Health Dilemma promises to become an irreplaceable and essential look at African-American and medical history and will provide an invaluable baseline for future exploration of race and racism in the American health system.
Polio Wars
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Author : Naomi Rogers
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2014
Polio Wars written by Naomi Rogers and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A study of Australian nurse Sister Elizabeth Kenny and her efforts to have her unorthodox methods of treating polio accepted as mainstream polio care in the United States during the 1940s. A case study of changing clinical care, and an examination of the hidden politics of philanthropies and medical societies.
Report To The Congress Of The United States April 1976 Pt 1 4 Public Hearings
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Author : United States. National Commission on Arthritis and Related Musculoskeletal Diseases
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Report To The Congress Of The United States April 1976 Pt 1 4 Public Hearings written by United States. National Commission on Arthritis and Related Musculoskeletal Diseases and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Arthritis categories.
Arthritis Out Of The Maze Pts 1 4 Public Hearings
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Author : United States. National Commission on Arthritis and Related Musculoskeletal Diseases
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Arthritis Out Of The Maze Pts 1 4 Public Hearings written by United States. National Commission on Arthritis and Related Musculoskeletal Diseases and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Arthritis categories.
Arthritis Out Of The Maze
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Author : United States. National Commission on Arthritis and Related Musculoskeletal Diseases
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Arthritis Out Of The Maze written by United States. National Commission on Arthritis and Related Musculoskeletal Diseases and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Musculoskeletal system categories.
Report To The Congress Of The United States Public Hearings Pt 1 4
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Author : United States. National Commission on Arthritis and Related Musculoskeletal Diseases
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Report To The Congress Of The United States Public Hearings Pt 1 4 written by United States. National Commission on Arthritis and Related Musculoskeletal Diseases and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Arthritis categories.