James Harvey Young Quotes

James Harvey Young was social historian most well known as an expert on the history of medical frauds and quackery.Young was born in Brooklyn, New York. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois. From 1941 he worked as a Professor of history at Emory University.His The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America was a scholarly volume that documented many of the medical frauds in the United States. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. September 1915 – 29. July 2006
James Harvey Young: 2 quotes0 likes

James Harvey Young Quotes

“Some years later, I yielded completely to the impulse, persuaded that medical quackery has been—and is—an important theme in American social and intellectual history.”

James Harvey Young

Source: The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in America Before Federal Regulation (1961), p. vii

“Quackery is important because through it vast numbers of our people have sought to bolster or restore their health and because it affords insight into an anti-rational approach to one of the key problems of life.”

James Harvey Young

Source: The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in America Before Federal Regulation (1961), p. vii

Similar authors

Reinhold Niebuhr photo
Reinhold Niebuhr65
American protestant theologian None
Hannah Arendt photo
Hannah Arendt85
Jewish-American political theorist None
Romain Rolland photo
Romain Rolland43
French author None
Svetlana Alexievich photo
Svetlana Alexievich8
Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose w… None
Paul A. Samuelson photo
Paul A. Samuelson47
American economist None
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn photo
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn120
Russian writer None
Noam Chomsky photo
Noam Chomsky334
american linguist, philosopher and activist None
Ludwig von Mises photo
Ludwig von Mises62
austrian economist None
Ilya Ehrenburg photo
Ilya Ehrenburg1
Russian-Soviet writer and poet None
Toni Morrison photo
Toni Morrison184
American writer None