Young, James Harvey
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Name (Latin)
Young, James Harvey
Other forms of name
Young, James Harvey, 1915-
Date of birth
1915-09-08
Date of death
2006-07-29
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- The Early years of federal food and drug control, 1982:t.p. (James Harvey Young) p. 7 (Candler Professor of History, Emory Univ., Atlanta)
- LC data base, 8/16/83(hdg.: Young, James Harvey, 1915- )
- NLM files, 11/6/87(hdg.: Young, James Harvey)
- New York times WWW site, Aug 11, 2006(James Harvey Young; b. in Brooklyn; d. July 29, Atlanta, aged 90; social historian of American medicine who wrote engaging studies of fraud, dubious cures, and health quackery, and later chronicled the birth of federal food regulation)
Wikipedia description:
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. 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. 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.
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