Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen

Gebundenes Buch

Quackery

A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

Beschreibung

A tour of medicine's most outlandish misfires, Quackery dives into 35 "treatments", exploring their various uses and why they thankfully fell out of favour - some more recently than you might think.

Autor

Lydia Kang, MD, is a practicing internal medicine physician and author of young adult fiction and adult fiction. Her YA novels include Control, Catalyst, and the upcoming The November Girl. Her adult fiction debut is entitled A Beautiful Poison. Her nonfiction has been published in JAMA, the Annals of Internal Medicine, and the Journal of General Internal Medicine. This author is represented by the Hachette Speakers Bureau. Nate Pedersen is a librarian, historian, and freelance journalist with over 400 publications in print and online, including in the Guardian, the Believer, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Art of Manliness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Workman Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 158mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780761189817
• ISBN-10: 0761189815
• Artikelnr.: 47355838