Femmes Macabres

Episode 5: The ‘Doctor’ who put the ‘Die’ in Diet & other people you shouldn't trust


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In this week's second episode, Erin & Steph discuss medical quackery, the bizarre tale of Dr Linda Hazzard, and the harms of the diet industry. --------
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Dark Hallway by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Sources:
PAMBOUKIAN, SYLVIA A. Doctoring the Novel: Medicine and Quackery from Shelley to Doyle. 1st ed., Ohio University Press, 2012. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1j7x88b. Accessed 10 Mar. 2020.
Soniak, Matt. “Why Is a Fake Doctor Called a Quack?” Mental Floss, 23 Jan. 2013, www.mentalfloss.com/article/33558/why-fake-doctor-called-quack.
“Quackery: Its Illusions and Realities.” Association Medical Journal, vol. 2, no. 56, 1854, pp. 78–79. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25495276. Accessed 10 Mar. 2020.
“Unlicensed Physic.” The British Medical Journal, vol. 1, no. 114, 1863, pp. 245–246. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25199599. Accessed 10 Mar. 2020.
Gregg Olsen, Starvation Heights (New York: Warner Books, 1997)
Beck, Katherine. “Hazzard, Linda Burfield (1867-1938).” Hazzard, Linda Burfield (1867-1938), History Ling, 3 Nov. 2011, www.historylink.org/File/7955.
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