James Harvey Young

James Harvey Young
Born (1915-09-08)September 8, 1915
Brooklyn, New York
Died July 29, 2006(2006-07-29) (aged 90)
Occupation Professor, social historian

James Harvey Young (September 8, 1915 – July 29, 2006) was social historian most well known as an expert on the history of medical frauds and quackery.[1][2][3]

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.[4]

His The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America (1967) was a scholarly volume that documented many of the medical frauds in the United States.[5][6]

Publications

References

  1. Harden, Victoria A. (2007). "James Harvey Young (1915-2006)". American Historical Association.
  2. Pearce, Jeremy. (2006). "James Harvey Young, 90, Dies; Wrote on Medical Quackery". The New York Times.
  3. Marcus, Donald M. (2008). James Harvey Young, PhD (1915-2006), Historian of Medical Quackery. Pharos Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Med Soc. 71(3): 16-21.
  4. "James Harvey Young". Emory University Newsletter.
  5. Cope, Zachary. (1968). Quacks In The U.S.A. British Medical Journal. Vol. 3, No. 5609. p. 43
  6. Anderson, Oscar E. (1968). The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America by James Harvey Young. The American Historical Review. Vol. 73, No. 5, p. 1665.
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