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[[FILE:Morris Fishbein LCCN2016873804 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Fishbein ca. 1938]]
'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', {{MD}}, ({{LifeData|birth=1889-07-22|birthplace=St. Louis, MI|death=1976-09-27|deathplace=Chicaco, IL}}) was an American physician and editor of the ''Journal of the American Medical Association'' (''[[JAMA]]'') from 1924 to 1950.<ref name="WP">{{REFweb
|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Fishbein
|title={{FULLPAGENAME}}
|website=Wikipedia
|accessdate=2021-10-07
}}</ref>
Fishbein is vilified in the chiropractic community due to his principal role in founding and propagating the campaign to suppress and end chiropractic as a profession due to its basis in pseudoscientific practices.<ref name="WP"/><ref>Donahue, (1996), 16(1):39-49.</ref>
== Quacks<ref name="WP"/> ==
He was also notable due to his affinity for exposing quacks, notably the goat-gland surgeon John R. Brinkley, and campaigning for regulation of medical devices. His book ''Fads and Quackery in Healing'' debunks homeopathy, osteopathy, chiropractic, Christian Science, radionics and other dubious medical practices.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Fishbein
|first=Morris
|author-link=Morris Fishbein
|title=Fads and Quackery in Healing
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1558161/
|journal=American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health
|date=1933-04
|volume=23
|issue=3
|pages=295–6
|DOI=10.2105/AJPH.23.3.295
|pubmedCID=1558161
}}</ref>
In 1938, Fishbein authored a two-part article "Modern Medical Charlatans" in the journal ''Hygeia'' which criticized the quackery of Brinkley.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Fishbein
|first=Morris
|author-link=Morris Fishbein
|title=The Case of Brinkley Vs. Fishbein: Proceedings of a Libel Suit Based on an Article Published in ''Hygeia''
|journal=Journal of the American Medical Association
|date=1939-05-13
|volume=112
|issue=19
|page=1952
|DOI=10.1001/jama.1939.02800190066017
}}</ref> Brinkley sued Fishbein for libel but lost the case.<ref name="Lee">{{REFbook
|last=Lee
|first=Alton R.
|year=2002
|title=The Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley
|publisher=University of Kentucky Press
|pages=211-8
|isbn=0-8131-2232-5
}}</ref> The jury found that Brinkley "should be considered a charlatan and a quack in the ordinary, well-understood meaning of those words." Fishbein responded that "the decision is a great victory for honest scientific medicine, for the standards of education and conduct established by the American Medical Association."<ref name="Lee"/>
Fishbein was critical of the activities of Mary Baker Eddy. He considered her a fraud and plagiarist.<ref>{{REFbook
|last=Hudson
|first=Robert P.
|year=1983
|title=Disease and Its Control: The Shaping of Modern Thought
|publisher=Greenwood Press
|page=70
}}</ref>
{{NOTE}} It is at least irritating that this medic, who is so dedicated to uncovering charlatanism and quackery in medicine, excelled so much with just as much chackery on the subject of circumcision. In 1969, he recommended [[circumcision]] on minors to prevent masturbation and nervousness.<ref name="Fishbein1969">{{REFbook
|last=Fishbein
|first=Morris
|author-link=Morris Fishbein
|year=1969
|title=Modern Home Medical Adviser
|editor=Garden City
|chapter=Sex hygiene
|pages=90+119
|location=New York
|publisher=Doubleday & Co
}}</ref>
{{LINKS}}
* {{URLwikipedia|Morris_Fishbein|Morris Fishbein|2021-10-07}}
{{REF}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fishbein, Morris}}
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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', {{MD}}, ({{LifeData|birth=1889-07-22|birthplace=St. Louis, MI|death=1976-09-27|deathplace=Chicaco, IL}}) was an American physician and editor of the ''Journal of the American Medical Association'' (''[[JAMA]]'') from 1924 to 1950.<ref name="WP">{{REFweb
|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Fishbein
|title={{FULLPAGENAME}}
|website=Wikipedia
|accessdate=2021-10-07
}}</ref>
Fishbein is vilified in the chiropractic community due to his principal role in founding and propagating the campaign to suppress and end chiropractic as a profession due to its basis in pseudoscientific practices.<ref name="WP"/><ref>Donahue, (1996), 16(1):39-49.</ref>
== Quacks<ref name="WP"/> ==
He was also notable due to his affinity for exposing quacks, notably the goat-gland surgeon John R. Brinkley, and campaigning for regulation of medical devices. His book ''Fads and Quackery in Healing'' debunks homeopathy, osteopathy, chiropractic, Christian Science, radionics and other dubious medical practices.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Fishbein
|first=Morris
|author-link=Morris Fishbein
|title=Fads and Quackery in Healing
|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1558161/
|journal=American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health
|date=1933-04
|volume=23
|issue=3
|pages=295–6
|DOI=10.2105/AJPH.23.3.295
|pubmedCID=1558161
}}</ref>
In 1938, Fishbein authored a two-part article "Modern Medical Charlatans" in the journal ''Hygeia'' which criticized the quackery of Brinkley.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Fishbein
|first=Morris
|author-link=Morris Fishbein
|title=The Case of Brinkley Vs. Fishbein: Proceedings of a Libel Suit Based on an Article Published in ''Hygeia''
|journal=Journal of the American Medical Association
|date=1939-05-13
|volume=112
|issue=19
|page=1952
|DOI=10.1001/jama.1939.02800190066017
}}</ref> Brinkley sued Fishbein for libel but lost the case.<ref name="Lee">{{REFbook
|last=Lee
|first=Alton R.
|year=2002
|title=The Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley
|publisher=University of Kentucky Press
|pages=211-8
|isbn=0-8131-2232-5
}}</ref> The jury found that Brinkley "should be considered a charlatan and a quack in the ordinary, well-understood meaning of those words." Fishbein responded that "the decision is a great victory for honest scientific medicine, for the standards of education and conduct established by the American Medical Association."<ref name="Lee"/>
Fishbein was critical of the activities of Mary Baker Eddy. He considered her a fraud and plagiarist.<ref>{{REFbook
|last=Hudson
|first=Robert P.
|year=1983
|title=Disease and Its Control: The Shaping of Modern Thought
|publisher=Greenwood Press
|page=70
}}</ref>
{{NOTE}} It is at least irritating that this medic, who is so dedicated to uncovering charlatanism and quackery in medicine, excelled so much with just as much chackery on the subject of circumcision. In 1969, he recommended [[circumcision]] on minors to prevent masturbation and nervousness.<ref name="Fishbein1969">{{REFbook
|last=Fishbein
|first=Morris
|author-link=Morris Fishbein
|year=1969
|title=Modern Home Medical Adviser
|editor=Garden City
|chapter=Sex hygiene
|pages=90+119
|location=New York
|publisher=Doubleday & Co
}}</ref>
{{LINKS}}
* {{URLwikipedia|Morris_Fishbein|Morris Fishbein|2021-10-07}}
{{REF}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fishbein, Morris}}
[[Category:Person]]
[[Category:Male]]
[[Category:Deceased]]
[[Category:Author]]
[[Category:Physician]]
[[Category:USA]]