Do You Believe in Magic? e-bog
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Medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing expos 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.Dr. Offit reveals how alternative medicinean unregulated industry under no legal obligation to prove its claims or admit its riskscan actuall...
E-bog
90,41 DKK
Forlag
Harper
Udgivet
18 juni 2013
Længde
336 sider
Genrer
Public health and preventive medicine
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780062223005
Medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing expos 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.Dr. Offit reveals how alternative medicinean unregulated industry under no legal obligation to prove its claims or admit its riskscan actually be harmful to our health.Using dramatic real-life stories, Offit separates the sense from the nonsense, showing why any therapyalternative or traditionalshould be scrutinized. He also shows how some nontraditional methods can do a great deal of good, in some cases exceeding therapies offered by conventional practitioners.An outspoken advocate for science-based health advocacy who is not afraid to take on media celebrities who promote alternative practices, Dr. Offit advises, Theres no such thing as alternative medicine. Theres only medicine that works and medicine that doesnt.