Quackery : (Record no. 309)

MARC details
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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field 20039248
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20250626121555.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 170921t20172017nyua b 001 0 eng c
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2017044778
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780761189817 (alk. paper)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0761189815 (alk. paper)
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency CoCr/DLC
Language of cataloging eng
Transcribing agency CoCr
Description conventions rda
Modifying agency DLC
042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE
Authentication code pcc
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number R730
Item number .K36 2017
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 615.856
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Kang, Lydia,
Relator term author.
9 (RLIN) 1137
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Quackery :
Remainder of title a brief history of the worst ways to cure everything /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Lydia Kang, MD, Nate Pedersen.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture New York :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Workman Publishing,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice [2017]
264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice ©2017
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent viii, 344 pages :
Other physical details illustrations (some color) ;
Dimensions 21 cm
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE
Content type term text
Source rdacontent
337 ## - MEDIA TYPE
Media type term unmediated
Source rdamedia
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE
Carrier type term volume
Source rdacarrier
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Elements: prescriptions from the periodic table -- Antimony -- Mercury -- Arsenic -- Radium -- Gold -- The women's health hall of shame -- Plants & soil: nature's gifts -- Opiates -- Strychnine -- Tobacco -- Cocaine -- Alcohol -- Earth -- The antidotes hall of shame -- Tools: slicing, dicing, dousing & draining -- Bloodletting -- Lobotomy -- Cautery & blistering -- Enemas -- Hydrotherapy -- Surgery -- Anesthesia -- The men's health hall of shame -- Animals: creepy crawlies, corpses, and the healing power of the human body -- Leeches -- Cannibalism & corpse medicine -- Animal-derived medicines -- Sex -- Fasting -- The weight loss hall of shame -- Mysterious powers: waves, rays, and curious airs -- Electricity -- Animal magnetism -- Light -- Radionics -- The king's touch -- The eye care hall of shame -- The cancer cure hall of shame.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine--yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison--was dosed like Viagra. Looking back with fascination, horror, and not a little dash of dark, knowing humor, Quackery recounts the lively, at times unbelievable, history of medical misfires and malpractices. Ranging from the merely weird to the outright dangerous, here are dozens of outlandish, morbidly hilarious "treatments"--conceived by doctors and scientists, by spiritualists and snake oil salesmen (yes, they literally tried to sell snake oil)--that were predicated on a range of cluelessness, trial and error, and straight-up scams. With vintage illustrations, photographs, and advertisements throughout, Quackery seamlessly combines macabre humor with science and storytelling to reveal an important and disturbing side of the ever-evolving field of medicine"--
Assigning source Provided by publisher.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Quacks and quackery
General subdivision History.
9 (RLIN) 1138
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Medicine
General subdivision History.
9 (RLIN) 1139
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Wit and humor
9 (RLIN) 1141
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Pedersen, Nate,
Relator term author.
9 (RLIN) 1140
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942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type Book - training
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Home library Current library Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Non-fiction Training Library Training Library 06/26/2025   615.856 Kan 06/26/2025 06/26/2025 Book - training