Acupuncture, Expertise and Cross-Cultural Medicine

by Roberta E. Bivins

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333918932
• ISBN13: 9780333918937
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.7"