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Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
A rollicking visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproved by science.
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Lydia Kang,Nate Pedersen
A very timely history of disease outbreaks, from the authors of Quackery: stories of outbreaks (and their patient zeros), plus chapters on the science, culture, and cures for different types…
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A tour of medicine’s most outlandish misfires, Quackery dives into 35 treatments , exploring their various uses and why they thankfully fell out of favour - some more recently than…
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