Quackery
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Keeping a critical eye on chiropractic.

29 Sep 2008 This article discusses the importance of professional self-regulation and critical appraisal of information. A list of red flags is offered that could be used when analyzing information, scientific articles, or attending educational ... Read more...

Quackery in head and neck cancer.

28 Feb 2008 Most human beings will do almost anything to prolong their existence or to relieve the suffering of disease. Others will do anything to exploit these desires by selling what they claim to be pain killing remedies or life prolongation nostrums. We ... Read more...

Cancer coverage: the public face of childhood leukaemia in 1960s Britain.

28 Feb 2008 In the 1960s, stories of children fighting cancer, previously absent from the British news, started to feature ever more prominently in the national press. Conventional treatments could not keep children alive for many months, so the promise of a ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Quackery'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Wakley, and the age of "mental delusion". 30 Aug 2009
• Screening at your parish church. Is "efficient" and "painless" screening worth the candle? 7 Jun 2009
• Crazy talk. 6 Jun 2009
• The Atlanta Falcon and Tono-Bungay: dietary supplements as subprime drugs. 29 Apr 2009
• Critical thinking in anesthesia: eighth Honorary FAER Research Lecture. 30 Mar 2009
• From plunger to Punkt-roller: a century of weight-loss quackery. 15 Feb 2009
• Detox, shmeetox. The truth about pollutant-draining foot pads, colonics and other supposedly healthy cleansers. 14 Feb 2009
• [Integrative medicine?] 20 Jan 2009
• Street dentistry: time to tackle quackery. 30 Dec 2008
• James Harvey Young and medical education. 30 Dec 2008
• MBBS doctors working as quacks: private practice by interns in Kerala medical colleges. 30 Dec 2008
• Stem cell quackery. 29 Sep 2008
• Keeping a critical eye on chiropractic. 29 Sep 2008
• South African court bans vitamin trials for HIV/AIDS. 3 Jul 2008
• Anti-AIDS vitamin advertising banned. 17 Jun 2008
• Unproven treatments. 10 May 2008
• What pharmacy benefit designers need to know about perception and reality: never forget the elephant in the pharmacy. 29 Apr 2008
• Quackery in head and neck cancer. 28 Feb 2008
• Cancer coverage: the public face of childhood leukaemia in 1960s Britain. 28 Feb 2008
• James Harvey Young, PhD, (1915-2006). Historian of medical quackery. 30 Dec 2007

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Technical information about 'Quackery'

Definition: The fraudulent misrepresentation of the diagnosis and treatment of disease.

Descriptor UI: D011781

Alternative terms: Quackery; Quackeries;

Related Mesh Headings: Nostrums;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; ethnology; history; legislation & jurisprudence; prevention & control; psychology; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I01.880.735.728;