Pseudoscience and the ethics of academic medicine with Matthew C. Ehrlich

Matthew C. Ehrlich tells the story of krebiozen, a fraudulent cancer cure, and the frenzy it wrought through the University of Illinois in the 1950s. His book, The Krebiozen Hoax, helps us contextualize decades of conflicts surrounding medical ethics, pseudoscience, and health disinformation through the setting of a postwar midwestern campus.

• Matthew C. Ehrlich. 2024. The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine. University of Illinois Press. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088117 
• David F. Labaree. 2017. A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education. University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo19995111.html
• Julie Schumacher. 2024. The English Experience. Penguin Random House. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730658/the-english-experience-by-julie-schumacher/
• Julie Schumacher. 2019. The Shakespeare Requirement. Penguin Random House. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/550580/the-shakespeare-requirement-by-julie-schumacher/
• Julie Schumacher. 2015. Dear Committee Members. Penguin Random House. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/232129/dear-committee-members-by-julie-schumacher/ 

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