Quackery

Correspondence between A. Southall and the New England Medical Institute pertaining to a complete and permanent cure for illness, a treatment program Southall was involved with. Includes printed matter.

Interview transcripts and memos, field notes, correspondence, subject files, reprints, and newspaper clippings documenting multiple ethnographical medical sociology research projects conducted by Judith Swazey and Renée Fox, working independently and jointly under the auspices of the Acadia Institute which primarily focused on social, ethical, and policy issues in biomedical research and healthcare.

James Harvey Young (b. 1915) is an internationally recognized authority on American food and drug regulation and the history of health quackery in the United States. The collection consists of the research correspondence that comprised Dr. Young's office files.