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The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine
Harper
June 2013
On Sale: June 18, 2013
340 pages
ISBN: 0062222961
EAN: 9780062222961
Paperback
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Non-Fiction | Self-Help Health
In Do You Believe in Magic?, 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.
Dr. Offit reveals how alternative medicine—an
unregulated industry under no legal obligation to prove its
claims or admit its risks—can actually be harmful to our
health.
Using dramatic real-life stories, Offit
separates the sense from the nonsense, showing why any
therapy—alternative or traditional—should 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, “There’s no such thing as alternative
medicine. There’s only medicine that works and medicine that
doesn’t.”
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