The truth about quackery
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Lydia Kang |
TEDxOmaha
• October 2017
Leeches, bloodletting, and radioactive cures. Why did people use such bizarre medical treatments? Medicine is much more advanced now... right?
Lydia Kang is an internal medicine physician at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She graduated from Columbia University and New York University School of Medicine. Kang is also the author of historical, young adult and non-fiction books. Those books include: “Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything” (co-authored with Nate Pedersen) as well as “A Beautiful Poison” and “The November Girl.”
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