Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History

Bivins, R.

Alternative medicine is a fifty billion dollar per year industry. But is it all nonsense? The Whole Story rounds up the latest evidence on the placebo effect, the randomized control trial, personalized genetic medicine, acupuncture, homeopathy, osteopathy and more. It reaches a provocative conclusion: alternative therapies' whole-body approach might be just what medicine really needs right now to help crack the tough, chronic conditions seemingly untouched by the revolutions of surgery, antiseptics, antibiotics, vaccines and molecular biology.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2000-11-24

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333918937

DOI: 10.1057/9780230287518

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 263