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Quackery

Known as: Quackeries 
The fraudulent misrepresentation of the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
National Institutes of Health

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2015
2015
Quackery in Dentistry.
Quackery is a derogatory term used to describe the fraudulent misinterpretation of the diagnosis and treatment of the disease… 
2015
2015
History of Cancer Quackery
When I was a young man in Indianapolis, Indiana, I lived near a park on the borders ofwhich was a house occupied at that time… 
2012
2012
Doctoring the Novel: Medicine and Quackery from Shelley to Doyle
If nineteenth-century Britain witnessed the rise of medical professionalism, it also witnessed rampant quackery. It is tempting… 
2007
2007
'Medicine, Quackery and the Free Market: The "War" Against Morison's Pills and the Construction of the Medical Profession, c.1830-c.1850'
For many ‘regular’ medical practitioners in mid-nineteenth-century England, the spectre of unlicensed practice loomed large. In… 
Review
2004
Review
2004
Treating and preventing obesity
Preface. Foreword. List of Contributors. Treating and Preventing Obesity: A Systematic Review of Evidence. 1. Background. 2… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
Learn to ask the right questions
Argues that in business, as in medicine, prescription must follow diagnosis if it is to be effective. Reviews the psychological… 
1975
1975
The vitamin fraud in cancer quackery.
THE ATTEMPTED EXPLOITATION of the cyanogenic glucosides, amygdalin-under the the treatment of cancer has a long history. 
1975
1975
The vitamin fraud in cancer quackery.
1974
1974
Programs to combat nutritional quackery.
What avenues are available to combat the nutritional misinformation and quackery with which the public is bombarded? 
1962
1962
The golden age of quackery