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Listening to Quackery: Reading John Wesley's Primitive Physic in an Age of Health Care Reform.
J Med Humanit
March 2019
Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology program, The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, Seattle, WA, USA.
This article uses a reading of John Wesley's Primitive Physic, or An Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases (1747) to resist the common rejection-often as "quackery"-of Wesley's treatments for common maladies. We engage Wesley not because he was right but because his approach offers useful moments of pause in light of contemporary medical epistemology. Wesley's recommendations were primarily oriented towards the categories of personal responsibility and capability, but he also sought to empower individuals-especially the poor-with the knowledge to safely and affordably treat maladies of their own.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFQuackery or quality: the ethicolegal basis for a legislative framework for medical innovation.
J Med Ethics
June 2015
Department of Rheumatology, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK.
Innovative therapy is a matter of recent public interest, particularly following Lord Saatchi's Medical Innovation Bill. The purpose of the Bill is to encourage responsible innovation in medical treatment. We argue for the need to achieve a balance between the risks of medical innovation and patient safety considerations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA quackery with a difference-new medical pluralism and the problem of 'dangerous practitioners' in the United Kingdom.
Soc Sci Med
December 2007
London School of Economics and Political Science, BIOS Centre, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, UK.
The figure of the 'miracle cure'-peddling quack pretending spectacular properties for worthless tonics is iconic. From their 19th century traveling wagon shows to their 21st century Internet spam scams, hucksters and cranks have been consistently targeted by health authorities as a danger to public health. Yet, in this paper, I argue that this is only one form that the problem of 'quackery' has taken in the past two centuries or so in the United Kingdom.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFQuackery and fraud: understanding the ethical issues and responding.
J Am Coll Dent
March 2004
School of Dentistry, University of the Pacific, USA.
A small number of dentists abuse their patients and the public trust in the profession by practicing quackery or fraudulent or questionable dentistry. Such practitioners can be classified as incompetent, as treating their patients as a means to personal fulfillment, as operating beyond their legal qualifications, or as being quacks, charlatans, or frauds. Ethical practice requires all five of these characteristics: informed consent, high benefit to risk ratio, competence, professional integrity, and reasoned scientific basis for care.
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