James Harvey Young

James Harvey Young
James Harvey Young
Born	September 8, 1915; Brooklyn, New York
Died	July 29, 2006 (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

The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in America before Federal Regulation (1961)
The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America (1967)
American Self-Dosage Medicines: An Historical Perspective (1974)
The Early Years of Federal Food and Drug Control (1982)
Pure Food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906 (1989)
American Health Quackery: Collected Essays of James Harvey Young (1992)

References

Harden, Victoria A. (2007). "James Harvey Young (1915-2006)". American Historical Association.
Pearce, Jeremy. (2006). "James Harvey Young, 90, Dies; Wrote on Medical Quackery". The New York Times.
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.
"James Harvey Young". Emory University Newsletter.
Cope, Zachary. (1968). Quacks In The U.S.A. British Medical Journal. Vol. 3, No. 5609. p. 43
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.

External links

Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: James Harvey Young Papers, 1893-2004.

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[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.