Journey back to a time when doctors tried to jolt your paralyzed muscles awake with a strychnine-laced enema. When a physician wrote you a prescription for the mercury-based “Thunderclapper” pill to relieve your constipation. When surgeons promised to improve your virility with goat-testicle implants. A tour of medicine’s most outlandish misfires, Quackery dives into 67 “treatments,” exploring their various uses and why they thankfully fell out of favor―some more recently than you might think. Looking back in horror, and with a dash of dark humor, the book provides readers with an illuminating lesson in how medicine is very much an evolving process of trial and error, and how the doctor doesn’t always know best.
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything -
Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
Workman Publishing Company
2017
352 páginas
11h 44m
ISBN-10: 0761189815
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Lydia Kang
Lydia Kang is an author of young adult fiction, poetry, and narrative non-fiction. She graduated from Columbia University and New York University School of Medicine, completing her residency and chief residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. She is a practicing physician who has gained a reputation for helping fellow writers achieve medical accuracy in fiction. Her poetry and non-fiction have been published in JAMA, The Annals of Internal Medicine, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Great Weather for Media. She believes in science and knocking on wood, and currently lives in Omaha with her husband and three children. Lydia is represented by Eric Myers of Myers Literary Management.
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