A Male Hysteria

A Male Hysteria
Author: Edward Beasley
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2024-07-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1606189026

"This book explores the history and treatment of diabetes. It focuses on the nineteenth-century understanding of the disease and medicine's attempts to grapple with the disorder for the past two centuries"--

Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science

Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0486131629

Fair, witty appraisal of cranks, quacks, and quackeries of science and pseudoscience: hollow earth, Velikovsky, orgone energy, Dianetics, flying saucers, Bridey Murphy, food and medical fads, and much more.