- Corrupt practices, Alternative medicine, Complementary Therapies, Deception
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.
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Contemporary, spare, classical in form and earnest.
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- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Paul A. Offit
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 322
- Publisher
- Harper, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780062223005
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