James Harvey Young Explained

James Harvey Young
Birth Date:	8 September 1915
Birth Place:	Brooklyn, New York
Occupation:	Professor, social historian

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.^{[1] [2] [3]}

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.^[4]

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.^{[5] [6]}

Publications

• (1961)
• The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America (1967)
• American Self-Dosage Medicines: An Historical Perspective (1974)
• The Early Years of Federal Food and Drug Control (1982)
• Pure Food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906 (1989)
• American Health Quackery: Collected Essays of James Harvey Young (1992)

External links

• Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: James Harvey Young Papers, 1893–2004.

Notes and References

1. Harden, Victoria A. (2007). "James Harvey Young (1915–2006)". American Historical Association.
2. Pearce, Jeremy. (2006). "James Harvey Young, 90, Dies; Wrote on Medical Quackery". The New York Times.
3. Marcus, Donald M. (2008). James Harvey Young, PhD (1915–2006), Historian of Medical Quackery. Pharos Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Med Soc. 71(3): 16–21.
4. http://history.emory.edu/newsletter01/News-07/DeptNews-Young.html "James Harvey Young"
5. Cope, Zachary. (1968). Quacks In The U.S.A. British Medical Journal. Vol. 3, No. 5609. p. 43
6. Anderson, Oscar E. (1968). The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America by James Harvey Young. The American Historical Review. Vol. 73, No. 5, p. 1665.