Editor's Summary
7 February 2008
Bad medicine
In Charlatan, Pope Brock tells the cautionary tale of the rise and fall of John R. Brinkley, the notorious quack doctor operating in 1920s America who claimed that goat testicle implants were the fountain of youth. Couldn't happen today? Oh yes it could — every day on the Internet.
Books and Arts: JAMA and the mountebank
A timely tale of one man's mission to stamp out medical fraudsters in 1920s America.
doi:10.1038/451628a