Exaggeration: Advertising, Law and Medical Quackery in Britain, c. 1840–1914.

This article revisits the nineteenth-century debate about medical quackery in Britain, to examine its implications for the history of modern advertising. It makes two related claims. First, the prevalent view of advertising as a field prone to exaggeration, often taken as obvious, has a legal histor...

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Published in:	Journal of Legal History Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 202 - 232
Main Author:	Rosenberg, Anat
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Aug2021
Subjects:	Medical laws British Medical Association Advertising laws Advertising United Kingdom
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost