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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… 
2014
2014
Perception of Abortion and Abortion Laws by Lawyers in Anambra State Nigeria
Abortion is the knowing destruction of the life of an unborn child in the womb other than for the principal purpose of… 
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… 
1993
1993
The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America
Inevitably, reading is one of the requirements to be undergone. To improve the performance and quality, someone needs to have… 
1979
1979
Chiropractic: recognized but unproved.
Ever since 1895, when D. D. Palmer, erstwhile "magnetic healer" and founder of the chiropractic movement, claimed to have… 
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. 
1974
1974
Programs to combat nutritional quackery.
What avenues are available to combat the nutritional misinformation and quackery with which the public is bombarded? 
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