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James Harvey Young

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Historian of medicine and author of The Medical Messiahs, a critical history of twentieth-century health fraud and medical quackery.

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James Harvey Young was a historian of medicine and public-health regulation whose work examined health fraud, patent medicines, and medical quackery in the United States. In this database he is connected to The Medical Messiahs, which provides critical historical context for figures and movements including Harry Hoxsey.