Do you believe in magic? : the sense and nonsense of alternative medicine
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- ISBN: 9780062222961 (hc.) :
- ISBN: 0062222961 (hc.)
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Physical Description:
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x, 322 pages ; 24 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, [2013]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-305) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: Taking a look at alternative medicine -- Introduction: Saving Joey Hofbauer -- Distrust of modern medicine. Rediscovering the past : Mehmet Oz and his superstars -- The lure of all things natural. The vitamin craze : Linus Pauling's ironic legacy -- Little supplement makers versus Big Pharma. The supplement industry gets a free pass : neutering the FDA ; Fifty-one thousand new supplements : which ones work? -- When the stars shine on alternative medicine. Menopause and aging : Suzanne Somers weighs in ; Autism's Pied Piper : Jenny McCarthy's crusade ; Chronic Lyme Disease : the Blumenthal Affair -- The hope business. Curing cancer : Steve Jobs, shark cartilage, coffee enemas, and more ; Sick children, desperate parents : Stanislaw Burzynski's urine cure -- Charismatic healers are hard to resist. Magic potions in the twenty-first century : Rashid Buttar and the lure of personality -- Why some alternative therapies really do work. The remarkably powerful, highly underrated placebo response ; When alternative medicine becomes quackery -- Epilogue: Albert Schweitzer and the witch doctor : a parable. |
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Subject: | Alternative medicine Alternative medicine -- Corrupt practices |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Salt Spring Island Public Library.
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Salt Spring Island Public Library | 615.5 OFF (Text) | 33123009311052 | Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |