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Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools of Us All is a book about alternative medicine written by author and health journalist Rose Shapiro. It was published by Harvill Secker in 2008. It covers very similar ground to Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst 's book Trick or Treatment? , but is written in a more journalistic and polemical style.
Alternative Medicine on Trial (North American title: Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine) [1] is a 2008 book by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The book evaluates the scientific evidence for alternative medicines such as acupuncture , homeopathy , herbal medicine , and chiropractic , [ 2 ] and ...
What You Really Need to Know About Cancer: A Guide for Patients and their Families. Pan paperback. 1997. Robert Buckman. Anne Charlish. ed. What You Really Need to Know About Living With Depression. Lebhar-Friedman Books. 2000. Can We Be Good Without God?: Biology, Behavior, and the Need to Believe, Prometheus Books, 2002. ISBN 978-1-57392-974-5
Trudeau's book Natural Cures – Updated Edition. Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About is a 2005 self-published book by American author Kevin Trudeau, promoting various purported non-drug and non-surgical cures for many diseases, primarily in support of his business selling such products.
In the book, Offit also attributes much of alternative medicine's effectiveness to the placebo effect, which is the subject of one of the book's chapters. [3] He also notes that alternative medical treatments can have serious side effects, such as paralysis resulting from chiropractic and viral infections caused by acupuncture. [ 4 ]
Among other things, the book is known for the discovery of contagious diseases, and the introduction of experimental medicine, [1] clinical trials, [2] randomized controlled trials, [3] [4] efficacy tests, [5] [6] and clinical pharmacology. [7] The work is considered one of the most famous books in the history of medicine. [8]
He has subsequently served on the advisory board of the Office of Alternative Medicine, and he markets Moss Reports covering various forms of alternative medicine. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] His 1980 book The Cancer Industry was negatively reviewed by Quackwatch , who noted that "the book is dangerous because it may induce desperate cancer patients to abandon ...
Robert Oldham Young (born March 6, 1952) is an American naturopathic practitioner and author of alternative medicine books promoting an alkaline diet. [1] His most popular works are the "pH Miracle" series of books, which outline his beliefs about holistic healing and an "alkalarian" lifestyle.