Running after quacks and mountebanks…

• Authors: Ohry, A , Tsafrir, J

Abstracts

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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.

Keywords

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quackery; professional healers; history

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Medyczny w Białymstoku
• Journal: Progress in Health Sciences
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 171-174

Contributors

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Ohry, A

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Tsafrir, J