Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones
Subtitle: The American Medicine Show
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: July 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780786408009
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Cultural studies; Pageants, parades, festivals; c 1800 to c 1900; Modern - 19th Century; History: World; Medical / Nursing; Psychology; United States; USA; Psychotherapy - General; United States - 19th Century; History; 19th century; Healers; Medicine shows; Quacks and quackery
Description: "Medical practices, commerce, and advertising are explored in relation to the history of the rise and eventural demise of the medicine show in America."--Preface.