James Harvey Young (September 8, 1915 – July 29, 2006) was social historian most well known as an expert on the history of medical frauds and quackery.
[1][2][3] Young was born in Brooklyn, New York.
He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois.
From 1941 he worked as a Professor of history at Emory University.
[4] His The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America (1967) was a scholarly volume that documented many of the medical frauds in the United States.