Healing or stealing? [electronic resource] : medical charlatans in the New Age / Jean-Marie Abgrall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abgrall, Jean-Marie.

Standardized Title:

Charlatans de la santé. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alternative medicine.

Quacks and quackery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Pub., 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Abgrall is one of the world's top experts on cults and the pseudo health movements that prey upon people in need. A practicing psychiatrist and criminologist, he says ""so-called alternative medicine sometimes crosses the line and becomes pure crookery."" A

Contents:

1. From alternative medicine to patamedicine

2. And then came Hahnemann

3. Needles and pains

4. Muscles and bones

5. Go for what's natural

6. Steiner's heirs

7. Everything is in everything, and vice versa

8. Tastes and colors

9. Waves and magnets

10. Cancer, AIDS, and eternal youth

11. From mother ocean to the all-embracing mother

12. Psychiatry and delusions

13. Medicine and cults

14. The foundations of patamedicine

15. The medical authorities and the charlatans.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-892941-28-7

OCLC:

123112553