Medicine, Quackery and the Free Market: The 'War' Against Morison's Pills and the Construction of the Medical Profession, c.1830-c.1850
secondary literature · 2007
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SUMMARY
Scholarly book chapter analysing the medical profession's organized campaign against Morison's pills and the Hygeian system in the 1830s-1840s, and how that campaign helped construct the emerging professional identity of orthodox medicine. Cited here for the disconfirmation strand: the profession's treatment of the pills as dangerous quackery, the publicizing of deaths and prosecutions, and the placement of the Morison episode in the history of the medical market. Bibliographic metadata (author Michael Brown; editors Jenner and Wallis; book title; publisher Palgrave Macmillan; year 2007; pages 238-261) taken from the University of Manchester Research Explorer record; no DOI or ISBN is listed on that record.
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Michael Brown’s chapter in Jenner and Wallis’s Medicine and the Market in England and its Colonies, c.1450-1850 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) is the modern scholarly account of the ‘war’ the consolidating medical profession waged against Morison’s pills. It is cited in this bundle for the disconfirmation: the framing of the Hygeian system as dangerous quackery, the use of attributed deaths and prosecutions in the professional campaign, and the broader market history. Cited for historical analysis and characterization, not for clinical efficacy claims.