Acupuncture, Expertise and Cross-Cultural Medicine

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.

Author: R. Bivins
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/24/2000
Pages: 263
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.78w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780333918937

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 06/01/2001 pg. 122

About the Author
ROBERTA BIVENS is a Research Associate in the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, where she continues to research cross-cultural medical practices in Twentieth-century Britain.