Download or read book Cure for a Charlatan written by Caroline Roe and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three young men die of a strange illness signaled by sleepwalking, delusions and strange mutterings. Is it poisoning or witchcraft? Now Isaac must discover the murderer, cure Girona of its deadly hysteria, and expose the charlatan who caused it...
Download or read book The Power of the Charlatan written by Grete de Francesco and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charlatan written by Pope Brock and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival documentary, NUTS!. “An extraordinary saga of the most dangerous quack of all time...entrancing” –USA Today In 1917, John R. Brinkley–America’s most brazen con man–introduced an outlandish surgical method for restoring fading male virility. It was all nonsense, but thousands of eager customers quickly made “Dr.” Brinkley one of America’s richest men–and a national celebrity. The great quack buster Morris Fishbein vowed to put the country’ s “most daring and dangerous” charlatan out of business, yet each effort seemed only to spur Brinkley to new heights of ingenuity, and the worlds of advertising, broadcasting, and politics soon proved to be equally fertile grounds for his potent brand of flimflam. Culminating in a decisive courtroom confrontation, Charlatan is a marvelous portrait of a boundlessly audacious rogue on the loose in an America ripe for the bamboozling.
Download or read book Charlatan written by Pope Brock and published by Crown Pub. This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the little-known Dr. John Brinkley and his unquenchable thirst for fame and fortune and Morris Fishbein, a quackbuster extraordinaire who relentlessly pursued the greatest charlatan of the 1920s and 1930s.
Download or read book The Great American fraud written by Samuel Hopkins Adams and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great American Fraud written by Samuel Hopkins Adams and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2 copies located in Circulation.
Download or read book The Charlatan written by William Norfolk and published by Samuel French. This book was released on 1991 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vienna 1777, Maria-Theresa Paradies, a gift blind young pianist, has been sent to Doctor Mesmer in the hope that his unorthodox methods will cure her blindness where conventional medicine has failed. Mesmer's treatment is based on what he terms "animal-magnetism", a spirit of fluid which he believes he is capable of transferring to other people to restore physical and mental harmony. To the disquiet of her parents, he insists that Maria stays in his house for the duration of the treatment. Maria's sight is restored, but it is not long before the coffee house gossips read more into his relationship with Maria than that of doctor and patient, and the treatment ends in scandal and fiasco, with most of Vienna convinced that Mesmer is nothing more than charlatan. Unable to see once again, Maria returns to her.
Download or read book The Great American Fraud written by Samuel Hopkins Adams and published by VolumesOfValue. This book was released on 2013 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition features a linked Table of Contents. CONTENTS I. THE GREAT AMERICAN FRAUD. II. PERUNA AND THE BRACERS. III.—LIQUOZONE. IV—THE SUBTLE POISONS. V.—PREYING ON THE INCURABLES. VI—THE FUNDAMENTAL FAKES. THE PATENT MEDICINE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
Download or read book The Force of Mind Or the Mental Factor in Medicine written by Alfred Taylor Schofield and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...system, but for one thing. It can show real cures, both undeniable and numerous, in spite of the vast number that may not bear scrutiny. This the physician cannot, alas! deny, though he Quack may deplore it. After allowing full discount for arenot" forged and false testimonials (which are not so "rt78 numerous as supposed), for purely imaginary diseases and the credulity of mankind, and even for the lesser functional disorders, there remains behind a large residuum that cannot by any ingenuity be explained away. At any rate, the public believes it has suffered from some disease, say, rheumatism, for which, in the ordinary course and the absence of the quack, it would have gone to the nearest doctor; with the result of a possible more or less tardy cure, and the certainty of a considerable bill. Whereas now, the purchase for 7&. or Is. l d. of a small bottle of something in a wrapper black with testimonials has already given relief, maybe even before it has been taken, on the mere reading of the wonderful cures effected. The ignorant charlatan may thus effect with his shallow mysteries what a great physician cannot do with his science, because wonder and awe have a greater therapeutic power than respect. In this case, of course, the remedies used on both sides are regarded as inert; and yet we believe it is true that many of our most useful medicines have been discovered by quacks. Now it is quite possible that no one is more surprised as well as pleased at the cures than the quack vendor of the same; and it is not for him to deny what he cannot account for, as the doctor is often tempted to do, because his interest is to magnify cures, which he promptly does. Pseudo-It is therefore doubtless true that, in spite of all...
Download or read book The water cure Stomach complaints drug diseases their causes consequences and cure by water air exercise and diet To which is appended Two letters to dr Hastings on the results of the water cure at Malvern written by James Wilson (M.D., of Malvern.) and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Trouble with Doctors written by Dr. John Anderson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book arose from the authors knowledge of a small number of doctors who were not behaving in a professional or proper manner. As he read about them, he found he was astonished at the extent of some offenders. Any human being can have flaws in their character, personality disorders or mental illnesses, what if that person is your doctor? This book takes the reader on a journey from the colorful life of Geoffrey Edelsten through Medawar's The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice, a fertility specialist who used his own sperm to impregnate over 50 women without their knowledge to the lasting and devastating effects of the MMR vaccine debacle. The author suggests that a test needs to be devised to detect character flaws such as greed before they harm innocent people through fraud and deceit. As much a reference book as it is a celebration of the brave‘whistleblower’and witty commentary on human nature, capturing the imagination, leading the reader to wonder why people make the decisions they do. Anderson himself had a colorful life and a brilliant career, leaving an immeasurable legacy to medicine. His wish was that this book would prompt change, leading to enhanced integrity in the medical and scientific world.
Download or read book Quacks written by Roy Porter and published by Tempus Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated history of quack doctors in their heyday of the 17th and 18th centuries looks at the various treatments and diagnostic methods used.
Download or read book Quack Medicine written by Eric W. Boyle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely volume illustrates how and why the fight against quackery in modern America has largely failed, laying the blame on an unlikely confluence of scientific advances, regulatory reforms, changes in the medical profession, and the politics of consumption. Throughout the 20th century, anti-quackery crusaders investigated, exposed, and attempted to regulate allegedly fraudulent therapeutic approaches to health and healing under the banner of consumer protection and a commitment to medical science. Quack Medicine: A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America reveals how efforts to establish an exact border between quackery and legitimate therapeutic practices and medications have largely failed, and details the reasons for this failure. Digging beneath the surface, the book uncovers the history of allegedly fraudulent therapies including pain medications, obesity and asthma cures, gastrointestinal remedies, virility treatments, and panaceas for diseases such as arthritis, asthma, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS. It shows how efforts to combat alleged medical quackery have been connected to broader debates among medical professionals, scientists, legislators, businesses, and consumers, and it exposes the competing professional, economic, and political priorities that have encouraged the drawing of arbitrary, vaguely defined boundaries between good medicine and "quack medicine."
Download or read book Don t Fall For It written by Ben Carlson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn financial and business lessons from some of the biggest frauds in history Why does financial fraud persist? History is full of sensational financial frauds and scams. Enron was forced to declare bankruptcy after allegations of massive accounting fraud, wiping out $78 billion in stock market value. Bernie Madoff, the largest individual fraudster in history, built a $65 billion Ponzi scheme that ultimately resulted in his being sentenced to 150 years in prison. People from all walks of life have been scammed out of their money: French and British nobility looking to get rich quickly, farmers looking for a miracle cure for their health ailments, several professional athletes, and some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. No one is immune from getting deceived when money is involved. Don’t Fall For It is a fascinating look into some of the biggest financial frauds and scams ever. This compelling book explores specific instances of financial fraud as well as some of the most successful charlatans and hucksters of all-time. Sharing lessons that apply to business, money management, and investing, author Ben Carlson answers questions such as: Why do even the most intelligent among us get taken advantage of in financial scams? What make fraudsters successful? Why is it often harder to stay rich than to get rich? Each chapter in examines different frauds, perpetrators, or victims of scams. These real-life stories include anecdotes about how these frauds were carried out and discussions of what can be learned from these events. This engaging book: Explores the business and financial lessons drawn from some of history’s biggest frauds Describes the conditions under which fraud tends to work best Explains how people can avoid being scammed out of their money Suggests practical steps to reduce financial fraud in the future Don’t Fall For It: A Short History of Financial Scams is filled with engrossing real-life stories and valuable insights, written for finance professionals, investors, and general interest readers alike.
Download or read book Charlatans written by Robin Cook and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The explosive new thriller from New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook. Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from patient deaths. Known for its medical advances, the famed teaching hospital has fitted several ORs as “hybrid operating rooms of the future”—an improvement that seems positive until an anesthesia error during a routine procedure results in the death of an otherwise healthy man. Noah suspects Dr. William Mason, an egotistical, world-class surgeon, of an error during the operation and of tampering with the patient’s record afterward. But Mason is quick to blame anesthesiologist, Dr. Ava London. When more anesthesia-related deaths start to occur, Noah is forced to question all of the residents on his staff, including Ava, and he quickly realizes there’s more to her than what he sees. A social-media junkie, Ava has created multiple alternate personas for herself on the Internet. With his own job and credibility now in jeopardy, Noah must decide which doctor is at fault and who he can believe—before any more lives are lost.
Download or read book Chris Beat Cancer written by Chris Wark and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, the Wall Street Journal best-selling guide to charting a path from cancer to wellness through a toxin-free diet, lifestyle, and therapy--created by a colon cancer survivor. Millions of readers have followed Chris Wark's journey on his blog and podcast Chris Beat Cancer, and in his debut work, he dives deep into the reasoning and scientific foundation behind the approach and strategies that he used to successfully heal his body from stage-3 colon cancer. Drawing from the most up-to-date and rigorous research, as well as his deep faith, Wark provides clear guidance and continuous encouragement for his healing strategies, including his Beat Cancer Mindset; radical diet, and lifestyle changes; and means for mental, emotional, and spiritual healing. Packed with both intense personal insight and extensive healing solutions, the Wall Street Journal best-selling Chris Beat Cancer will inspire and guide you on your own journey toward wellness.
Download or read book SCAM written by Edzard Ernst and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2018-06-22 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So-called alternative medicine (SCAM) is popular and therefore important, no matter whether we love or loathe it. Consequently, an impressive number of books about SCAM are already available. Most of them, however, are woefully uncritical, overtly promotional and dangerously misleading. Not so this one! This book was written by someone who received SCAM as a patient, practised SCAM as a doctor, and researched SCAM as a scientist. It provides an insider's perspective by covering aspects of SCAM which most other books avoid, and by questioning the many tacitly accepted assumptions and wild extrapolations that underpin SCAM. The text is factual, occasionally dosed with a touch of humour or satire. The aim is not only to inform but also to entertain. It is written principally for members of the general public who have an interest in healthcare and are tired of the promotional counter-knowledge produced by SCAM enthusiasts. It is an exercise in critical thinking that might prevent you from wasting your money on (or endangering your health with) bogus treatments.
