U.S. Infant mortality rates are among the highest in the industrialized world. The AIDS epidemic threatens to bankrupt the medical insurance system completely. The drug industry is out of control. Of the hundreds of new chemical medicines produced every year, many are over-promoted, poorly tested, and downright dangerous. You are the drug companies' experimental population.
Women feel particularly betrayed by the medical establishment.
Just when the limitations of drug-based biomedicine are becoming woefully apparent, an impressive array of alternative health practices is emerging. Some are ancient, such as yoga and herbology. Some are innovative and technological, like biofeedback and electromagnetic therapy. All work by naturally enhancing the body's own healing capabilities. Illness has been attributed in turn to evil spirits, divine retribution, and bugs.