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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.
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Front Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Acupuncture, Expertise and Cross-Cultural Medicine
Authors: Roberta E. Bivins
Series Title: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287518
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-91893-7Published: 24 November 2000
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28751-8Published: 22 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2946-9643
Series E-ISSN: 2946-9651
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 263
Topics: History of Medicine, Philosophy of Mind, Acupuncture, History, general, History of Science, Popular Science in Medicine and Health