Patient-doctor relationship: Changing perspectives and medical litigation by K Ganesh

“…In this context, the rise of global consumerism, the explosion of information available on the internet, and the changed manner of the medical profession from being shrouded in mystic / ceremony to trifurcation of medical services to doctoral diagnoses and management, ancillary pharmacy industry, and paramedical services like nursing, counselling and the new age quackery have contributed to this dimer.…”
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Embracing Pedagogical Pluralism:An Educator's Case for (at Least Public) School Choice by David J. Ferrero

“…Three objections to a conception of school choice grounded in a notion of reasonable pluralism among educational doctrines are addressed: 1) that it would undermine educators' efforts to secure status for themselves as professionals by admitting that “best practices” in education offer rough guidance at best; 2) that it would leave parents and students vulnerable to quackery; 3) that it abandons the common school tradition and its aspirations. …”
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Protestantes, curanderos y descreídos. Misiones interiores, religiosidad nacional-católica e intolerancia durante el primer franquismo, 1940-1960 by Francisco Bernal García

“…This article explores this interpretation by analysing three aspects of the missionaries’ actions: their efforts to harass Protestant communities; their struggles against quackery and other manifestations of the «common religion»; and the pressures they exerted against those who claimed to have no religious beliefs of any kind.…”
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Havoc of dental quacks in a district in India: A case series by Pooja Siwach, Vikas Jaysing Pawar, Arush Thakur, Fahmeeda Shaikh

“…A number of dental quacks are practicing roadside, making money by doing unethical and unhygienic practice, eventually, hampering the patient's oral and general health. Common quackery practices carried out in India are filling of teeth with acrylic resin, fixing the removable partial denture as fixed partial denture using wires and self-curing acrylic resin, using suction disc on the palatal surface of complete denture to improve retention, etc., leading to a number of unfortunate consequences. …”
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Quantum fundamentalism and theological liberty by Harris, M

“…Scientists often denounce these mystical approaches as “quantum quackery”, but I will examine their serious side. I will argue that, for quantum fundamentalism to function as a worldview it should inform a sense of human purpose, something which theological analysis is well equipped to supply.…”

Unconventional Dentistry in India – An Insight into the Traditional Methods by Vinita Ashutosh Boloor, Rajesh Hosadurga, Anupama Rao, Haziel Jenifer, Sruthy Pratap

“…Some unconventional practices may be viewed as “the continuity of traditions, religious beliefs, and even quackery that non-specialists practice.” These practices have been associated with religious beliefs and the spiritual domain as well as with the physical domain. …”
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Insight into Private General Physicians’ Practices: an Exploratory Qualitative Study in a Rural District of Pakistan by Sameen Siddiqi, Nousheen Akber Pradhan, Tahani Waqar Zaidi

“…Objective The study aimed to assess private general physicians’(GPs) healthcare practices, identifying perceived malpractices, the support they receive, and barriers they experience in providing healthcare services.Design Qualitative exploratory study.Setting Rural district, Thatta in Province of Sindh, Pakistan.Participants 15 GPs.Results Our results include increased motivation among GPs for continued professional development, the high influence of pharmaceutical companies on providers’ prescribing practices, perceived malpractices by GPs, and the prevalence of quackery and ineffective regulatory mechanisms for private GPs in a rural district.Conclusion Our findings have implications for the capacity building of GPs by academic institutions, enforcement of regulatory measures by the authorities, and the introduction of measures to curb practices by unqualified practitioners. …”
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When Latin gets sick: mocking medical language in macaronic poetry by Å ime Demo

“…Secondly, a macaronic satire of quackery, Bartolotti’s Macharonea medicinalis, one of the earliest macaronic poems, is analysed. …”
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”Alla mina bemödanden hafva strandat emot okunnigheten, lågheten och egennyttan” by Annelie Drakman

“…Assuming that a fatalistic population hardly would support extensive quackery, this portrayal of the peasantry can be understood partly as a strategy with beneficial effects for the provincial doctor. …”
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Regulation of health workforce in India by Dharmesh K. Lal

“…Broadly the regulations consist of policy making, admission guidelines to the different health professional courses, defining and regulating education standards through controlling the qualifications and expertise of the faculty, teaching institutes required infrastructure, maintenance of a register, continuous upgradation and regular assessment of professional skills as well as monitoring the quackery-practice by unqualified people, investigating and dealing with problems in relation to the conduct, health or performance of registered practitioners. …”
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Tactics of Evasion by Vilhelm Vilhelmsson

“…The article builds on the case of a travelling healer and vagrant named Árni Sveinsson who was found guilty of vagrancy, forgery and quackery in 1821. His trial provides rare insights into the tactics employed by those on the margins of the law to get around undetected.…”
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[Schm]alchemy: Magical sites and mischievous objects – episodes in a performative inquiry into the transformative and disruptive potency of stuff by Gillian Whiteley

“…'Adding the pre-fix ‘schm’ to alchemy, the group conjures an intentionally disruptive and mischievous performance space of oscillation, characteristically presenting a hotch-potch of erudition, quackery and avante-gardeist trappings. Simultaneously adhering to and repudiating conventional ambitions of performance, it purposively produces an uncomfortable but potentially creative tension. …”
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The Myth of the Genetically Sick African by Joseph L Graves

“…As medicine moved from quackery to a discipline based in science, its understanding of human biological variation was flawed. …”
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Hardy, Galileo and the Art of Transgression by Nathalie Bantz-Gaszczak

“…His life-long appeal for ‘a sincere school of fiction’ to replace what he called ‘a literature of quackery’ thus puts him at the vanguard of writers well bent on resisting censorship and using their art to expose, question, denounce. …”
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<i>Miraculous</i> in Russian Semantics of the 11^th-18^th Centuries: the Evolution of Socially Significant Distinctions by M. S. Lyutaeva

“…These are true/false miracles in religion; legal/ illegal in the field of state regulation of public life (starting with the legislation of Peter the Great); miracle as superstition, deceit and quackery for selfish purposes, i.e. marginal communication, contrary to science, morality, law and the ideals of the Enlightenment as the worldview of the elites; as a historical and cultural phenomenon (in works related to the history, ethnography and folklore that are emerging in Russia); as an artistic mean (functional element) in literature.…”
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Late 1800s Fringe Electrotherapeutic Devices: Comparative Electrical Capabilities by D. Cox, B. Carr

“… Introduction Desperation for cure led to 19th century invention-- electrotherapeutic devices; replete with hyperbolic claims of cure-all, perceived ineffectiveness, and potential harm rendered the modality as quackery but were used in early brain stimulation, melancholia treatment, and cortex mapping. …”
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Miscellany/Mélanges

“…Wolfe, The hang-up of Franz Kotwara and its relationship to sexual quackery in late 18th-century London <br/><br/> Edward James, Voltaire and the <em>Ethics</em> of Spinoza <br/> Christiane Mervaud, Voltaire, saint Augustin et le duc Du Maine aux sources de <em>Cosi-Sancta</em> <br/> Anne Sanderson, Voltaire and the problem of dramatic structure: the evolution of the form of <em>Eriphyle</em> <br/> Anne Sanderson, In the playwright's workshop: Voltaire's corrections to <em>Irène</em> <br/> Alain Niderst, Fontenelle et la science de son temps <br/> Caryl Lloyd, Illusion et seduction: Diderot's rejection of traditional authority in works prior to <em>Le Neveu de Rameau</em> <br/> Alan J. …”

Typhoid ileal perforation: a 13-year experience by Poras Chaudhary, Rajeev Kumar, Chandrakant Munjewar, Utsav Bhadana, Gyan Ranjan, Shailesh Gupta, Sanjay Kumar, Mohinder P. Arora

“…To prevent complications of typhoid fever, in addition to control sanitation, it is also important to control quackery and malpractices. Awareness and education about the disease, its nature and complications will also be of great help.…”
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Social Perceptions of Quack in Qing Dynasty and Its Transformation in the Late Qing Period by Jihee CHOI

“…In this sense, "Yong-yi" was used among physicians as an expression of discrimination and exclusion. The concept of "quackery" was also determined by the relationship between patients and doctors. …”
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Qualitative Study on Antimicrobial Usage and Resistance in the Dairy Chain: A Situation Analysis and Solutions by Stakeholders from Punjab, India by Deepthi Vijay, Jasbir Singh Bedi, Pankaj Dhaka, Randhir Singh, Jaswinder Singh, Anil Kumar Arora, Jatinder Paul Singh Gill

“…The present study revealed that widely prevalent quackery (treatment practices carried out by unauthorized persons without any recognized diploma/degree) and self-treatment by farmers, over-the-counter availability of antibiotics, low veterinarian per animal ratio, and lack of awareness among the society about the potential public health effects of antimicrobial resistance were the main risk factors for injudicious antibiotic use in the dairy sector. …”
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