Due on Feb 26: your Diagnosis: History paper. <\/p>\n
Please submit it to me by 8 pm on Wed 2\/26 as an email attachment, preferably as a Word document (to see a sample APA paper as a formatting example, click here<\/a>). For our “virtual class” this week, please continue reading in Rutkow’s book, chapters 5-7 on Scientific Advancement, Professional Authority, and Challenges of Success. History-wise, that will bring us up into the 1930s, which is helpful background when we read Pox<\/em> later this semester. <\/p>\n One of the things Rutkow talks about is the rise of (and later efforts to contain and control) medical entrepreneurs and “quacks.” Take a look at one or more of the sites on the list below and spend some time exploring them for more about quackery and oddball cures in the 19th century (some in England, some in the U.S.) Enjoy! <\/p>\n The Quack Doctor<\/a> (a blog of historical cures, medicines, and devices) Please leave a comment about which site(s) you visited and what you found interesting, using the comment box at the foot of this post. Instead of a formal journal entry this week, please contribute definitions to the existing glossary entries on Blackboard, and add at least 3 terms of your own, with definitions. These can be drawn from Rutkow’s book or from any of our readings or documents to date. Remember, each definition should always establish the historical context for the term (time period? place?), because meanings and discourses are always historically constructed (as we learned from Foucault). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Due on Feb 26: your Diagnosis: History paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-class","tag-spr14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nVictorian Quack Cures<\/a> (image gallery by the London Telegraph)
\nBalm of America: Patent Medicine Collection<\/a> (Smithsonian Institution)
\nPatent Medicine: Cures and Quacks<\/a> (PDF – Pilgrim Hall Museum)
\nThe Medicine Show<\/a> (Legends of America)
\nPatent Medicines and Miracle Cures<\/a> (New York Bar Association)<\/p>\n