Medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing exposé of the alternative medicine industry, revealing how even though some popular therapies are remarkably helpful due to the placebo response, many of them are ineffective, expensive, and even deadly.
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ISBN:9780062222961 (hc.)
ISBN:0062222961 (hc.)
Physical Description:print x, 322 pages ; 24 cm
Edition:1st ed.
Publisher:New York, NY: Harper, 2013
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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 -- Part I: Distrust of Modern Medicine: 1. Rediscovering the Past: Mehmet Oz and His Superstars -- Part II: Little Supplement Makers Versus Big Pharma: 3. The Supplement Industry Gets a Free Pass: Neutering the FDA -- 4. Fifty-One Thousand New Supplements: Which Ones Work? -- Part IV: When the Stars Shine on Alternative Medicine: 5. Menopause and Aging: Suzanne Somers Weighs In -- 6. Autism's Pied Piper: Jenny McCarthy's Crusade -- 7. Chronic Lyme Disease: The Blumenthal Affair -- Part V: The Hope Business: 8. Curing Cancer: Steve Jobs, Shark Cartilage -- 9. Sick Children, Desperate Parents: Stanislaw Burynski's Urine Cure -- Part VI: Charismatic Healers Are Hard to Resist: 10. Magic Potions in the Twenty-First Century: Ranshid Butter and the Lure of Personality -- Part VIII: Why Some Alternative Therapies Really Do Work: 11. The Remarkably Powerful, Highly Underated Placebo Response -- 12. When Alternative Medicine Becomes Quakery -- Epilogue: Albert Schweitzer and the Witch Doctor: A Parable -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
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