MARC details
000 -LEADER |
fixed length control field |
03185cam a2200385 i 4500 |
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 |
906 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT F, LDF (RLIN) |
a |
7 |
b |
cbc |
c |
orignew |
d |
1 |
e |
ecip |
f |
20 |
g |
y-gencatlg |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
Koha item type |
Book - training |