Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools of Us All

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  • Rose Shapiro
  • Author:  Rose Shapiro
  • Year: 07-05-2014
  • Translator from English: Elena Filipova
  • Availability:  Out Of Stock
  • Product Code:  1323-01
  • SKU: 11.0099
  • ISBN: 978-619-152-420-4
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Alternative medicine is an increasingly mainstream industry with a predicted worth of five trillion dollars by the year 2050. Its treatments range from reputable methods like homeopathy and acupuncture to such bizarre therapies as nutraceuticals, ear candling, and ergogenics. Alternative approaches are endorsed by celebrities, embraced by the middle class, and have become a lifestyle choice for many based on their spurious claims of rediscovery of ancient wisdom and the supposedly benign quality of nature. As this hard-hitting survey reveals, despite their growing popularity and expanding market share, there is no hard evidence that any of these so-called natural treatments actually work. It reveals how alternative medicine jeopardizes the health of those it claims to treat, leaches resources from treatments of proven efficacy, and is largely unaccountable and unregulated. Bracing and funny, this is a calling to account of a social and intellectual fraud that has produced a global delusion.

About the Author

Rose Shapiro

Rose Shapiro

Rose Shapiro is a British writer who contributes regularly to several publications including The Independent, The Observer, The Guardian, Time Out, Good Housekeeping and the Health Service Journal. Sh... Read more

Tags: Alternative Medicine, Conventional Medicine

Specification
Year 07-05-2014
Translator from English: Elena Filipova
Pages 360
Size 140/215 мм
Weight 0.45 kg
Cover Type Paperback
Genre Alternative Medicine, Conventional Medicine

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