James Harvey Young

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. Quotes The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in America Before Federal Regulation (1961) 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. 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. p. vii External links Category:Health activists Category:1915 births Category:2006 deaths Category:Skeptics Category:Historians from the United States Category:People from New York City