The Quack Doctor by Caroline Rance

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The Quack Doctor by Caroline Rance

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Summary

Featuring entertaining advertisements from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book investigates the inventive ways in which quack remedies were promoted – and suggests that the people who bought them should not be written off as gullible after all.

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The Quack Doctor by Caroline Rance

Featuring entertaining advertisements from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book investigates the inventive ways in which quack remedies were promoted and suggests that the people who bought them should not be written off as gullible after all.

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CAROLINE RANCE studied for an MA in Medicine, Science, and Society at Birkbeck College, University of London and writes the successful blog 'The Quack Doctor', which has been shortlisted twice for the Medgadget medical blog awards. Her novel, set in an 18th-century hospital, was published in 2009. She regularly speaks on quacks and quackery and lives in Buckinghamshire.
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ISBN 13 9780752487731
ISBN 10 0752487736
Title The Quack Doctor
Author Caroline Rance
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher The History Press Ltd
Year published 2013-10-01
Number of pages 224
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.