James Harvey Young

James Harvey Young
Born	September 8, 1915 Brooklyn, New York
Died	July 29, 2006 (aged 90)
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

• The Toadstool Millionaires: A Social History of Patent Medicines in America Before Federal Regulation (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)
• American Health Quackery: Collected Essays of James Harvey Young (1992)

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. "James Harvey Young". Emory University Newsletter.
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.