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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Offit, Paul A., author.     Subjects     Alternative medicine.     Alternative medicine -- Corrupt practices.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Offit, Paul A., author.       by title:      Do you believe in ma...         MARC Display

Do you believe in magic? [electronic resource] : the sense and nonsense of alternative medicine / Paul A. Offit, M.D. by Offit, Paul A., author. New York, NY : Harper, c2013. Subjects Alternative medicine.   Alternative medicine -- Corrupt practices. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=EDD5DD51-E879-4B37-A008-C3C9D18DEE8F This title is available online; click here to access ISBN:  9780062223005 (electronic bk.) 0062223003 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource (x, 322 p.) Edition:  1st ed. Contents:  Taking a look at alternative medicine -- Saving Joey Hofbauer -- Distrust of modern medicine. Rediscovering the past : Mehmet Oz and his superstars -- The lure of all things natural. The vitamin craze : Linus Pauling's ironic legacy -- Little supplement makers versus Big Pharma. The supplement industry gets a free pass : neutering the FDA ; Fifty-one thousand new supplements : which ones work? -- When the stars shine on alternative medicine. Menopause and aging : Suzanne Somers weighs in ; Autism's Pied Piper : Jenny McCarthy's crusade ; Chronic Lyme Disease : the Blumenthal Affair -- The hope business. Curing cancer : Steve Jobs, shark cartilage, coffee enemas, and more ; Sick children, desperate parents : Stanislaw Burzynski's urine cure -- Charismatic healers are hard to resist. Magic potions in the twenty-first century : Rashid Buttar and the lure of personality -- Why some alternative therapies really do work. The remarkably powerful, highly underrated placebo response ; When alternative medicine becomes quackery -- Albert Schweitzer and the witch doctor : a parable. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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