Running after quacks and mountebanks…
Journal Title: Progress in Health Sciences - Year 2012, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
The phenomenon of quackery is reviewed, and illustrated with examples from history, the literature and the present. A distinction is drawn between impostors or charlatans, and unorthodox but professional healers. The lessons drawn to suggest that some treatments considered unacceptable in the past have sometimes proved their efficacy over time, and should not always be dismissed out of hand.
Authors and Affiliations
A Ohry, J Tsafrir
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