Died 29 July 2006, Atlanta, Georgia, United States Education University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (1941) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books The toadstool millionaires, The Medical Messiahs, Pure food, American health quackery, The Shocking History of | ||
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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