Young, James Harvey.

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Birth 1915

Death 1992

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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. After earning his Masters degree and PhD at the University of Illinois, he became a professor at Emory University in 1941. While completing his nearly 40-year tenure at Emory, Dr. Young solidified his reputation by authoring such landmark books on the history of drug regulation and patent medicines as The Toadstool Millionaires (1961) and The Medical Messiahs (1967). During this period he also wrote about 100 articles for historical and medical history journals and reviewed more than 110 books published about American drug and medicine history.

From the guide to the James Harvey Young Papers, 1943-1997, (History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine)

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: James Harvey Young (1915- ) is an internationally recognized authority on American food and drug regulation and the history of health quackery in the United States. After earning his Masters degree and PhD at the University of Illinois, he became a professor at Emory University in 1941. While completing his nearly 40-year tenure at Emory, Dr. Young solidified his reputation by authoring such landmark books on the history of drug regulation and patent medicines as The toadstool millionaires (1961) and The medical messiahs (1967). During this period he also wrote about 100 articles for historical and medical history journals and reviewed more than 110 books published about American drug and medicine history.

From the description of James Harvey Young papers, 1943-1997. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 50155460

James Harvey Young, educator and historian, was born 8 September 1915, in Brooklyn, New York.

He graduated from the University of Illinois (Ph. D. 1941) and Rush University (Sc. D., 1976). Young was on the faculty (1941-1984) and was chairman of the Emory University Department of History (1958-1966), where he was the Charles Howard Candler professor of American Social History (1980-1984). He has held numerous honors, including a fellowship with the Social Science Research Council (1960-1961), a research appointment with the United States Food and Drug Administration (1977-1981), a consultancy in history to the Centers for Disease Control, the Radbill lectureship (Philadelphia College of Physicians, 1978), and the Beaumont lectureship (Yale University, 1980). He is the author of dozens of articles and papers on the history of medicine (including patent medicines and quackery), food, and Anna Dickinson, a nineteenth century abolitionist and suffragist.

From the description of James Harvey Young papers, 1946-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173862923