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9780230007536

The Whole Story Alternative Medicine On Trial?

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230007536

  • ISBN10:

    0230007538

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-08-08
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Alternative medicine is a fifty billion dollar per year industry, yet it continues to generate strong opposition by the orthodox medical establishment. The Whole Storyrounds 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.

Author Biography

Toby Murcott is a leading science writer, journalist and broadcaster. He was a science correspondent and producer for BBC World Service Radio for many years before becoming Editorial Director of Einstein TV, a digital science channel. He writes a column about alternative medicine research in The Times newspaper. Toby did his PhD and postdoctoral research in biochemistry at Bristol University in the UK.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Medicine's Conundrum
The Advocates
The Critics
The Gold Standard Tarnished
Measuring the Unmeasurable
Hints of Understanding
A New Model
The Evidence Leads
Conclusio n
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