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Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 471 g

Agnew

The Electric Corset and Other Victorian Miracles

Medical Devices and Treatments from the Golden Age of Quackery
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4766-8383-6
Verlag: Exposit Books

Medical Devices and Treatments from the Golden Age of Quackery

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 471 g

ISBN: 978-1-4766-8383-6
Verlag: Exposit Books


Through the Victorian and Edwardian eras, various new health movements emerged in the transition to the modern age of scientific medicine. Strange medical devices and quack cures were pushed for the curing of illnesses during this time, frequently using crude remedies based on simplistic beliefs and the placebo effect. Nowadays, some of these treatments appear absurd, even cruel. Because some of these devices were properly used as appropriate therapies, it's difficult to label them altogether as bogus devices.

This book takes a thorough look at unconventional medical gadgets, as well as the strange devices and therapies used by both fringe and legitimate healers, and places them in the perspective of modern medicine. The author argues that quackery should not be defined by the ineffectiveness of a therapy, but rather be based on the fraudulent intent of the people who pushed dishonest and deceptive remedies.

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Preface
- One. Time for a Change
- Two. If It Quacks Like a Duck…
- Three. Promises and Placebos
- Four. Some Early Medical Devices
- Five. Magnetic Devices
- Six. The Mysteries of Electricity
- Seven. Messing with the Mind
- Eight. Advanced Electrical Quackery
- Nine. Reshaping the Outside
- Ten. Treating the Insides
- Eleven. Behold the Light
- Twelve. The Promise of Restored Youth
- Thirteen. The Power of Radioactivity
- Postscript
- Glossary: Medical Terminology
- Appendix: The Electromagnetic Spectrum
- Chapter Notes
- Bibliography
- Index


Jeremy Agnew, a biomedical electronics consultant, holds a PhD in engineering and has been involved in the design and manufacture of medical devices for more than 30 years. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and has written several books on the Old West.



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