This document discusses quackery, which is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices by unskilled individuals posing as doctors. Quackery often involves overpromoting unproven health claims for profit. Quacks award themselves fake qualifications and make nonspecific or outlandish claims about secret formulas or cures. The document identifies different types of quackery such as medical, nutrition, and device quackery. Quackery can endanger lives, cause physical and financial harm, and create anxiety and regret among the public.

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2. Sociology II
Presented by:
Attroba Adan
Presented to:
Ms. Aniqa Butt

4. Quackery
 Quackery is the promotion of fraudulent or
ignorant medical practices by unskillful
doctors or by people who pretend to be
doctors.
 Quackery, in the broadest terms, is “anything
involving over promotion in the field of
health.”

5. Quackery
 Quackery is often linked to health fraud where
there is “the promotion, for profit, of a medical
remedy known to be false or unproven.”

6. Quacks
 A quack is “a pretender to medical skill; a
charlatan”
and “one who talks pretentiously without
sound knowledge of the subject discussed.”

7. How can you spot Quack?
 Quacks often award themselves impressive
qualifications.
 They are non-specific.
 Use of out-of-context language, e.g. energy,
frequencies, vibrations etc from other
disciplines.

8. How can you spot Quack?
 Claims to be standing up for ordinary people
against the conspiracy of big
pharmaceuticals, doctors and multinational
evils.
 He may offer a special or secret formula to
cure a disease.

9. Medicare Fraud

10. Types of Quackery
 Medical Quackery
 Nutrition Quackery
 Device Quackery

11. Medical Quackery
 Medical Quackery pertains to the
malpractice in the medical profession where
the pseudo-doctors claim to be experts in
treating disease.

12. Nutrition Quackery
 Any form of fake or unclassified claims of
nutritional value or impact.
 As in herbal remedies and dietary
supplements etc.

13. Device Quackery
 Device Quackery pertains to the claims or
information about the products that are ‘too
good to be true.’

14. Harmful aspects of Quackery
 It puts the life of public in danger.
 It leads to conflicts between consumer and
seller.
 It causes anxiety in the public due to it’s
uncertainty of effectiveness.

15. Harmful aspects of Quackery
 People who have existing illness may become
worse.
 Body parts deformities may arise.
 It creates regret in the public for the unwise
use of their resources.

16. Conclusion
 Hence, Quackery not only harm people
physically or financially rather it creates
psychological problems in the public as well.