Snake Oil Science
Subtitle: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: October 2, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780195313680
Subjects: Complementary Medicine; Medical / Psychiatry; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Alternative Medicine; Placebo (Medicine)
Description: "In Snake Oil Science, R. Barker Bausell provides an engaging look at the scientific evidence for complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and at the logical, psychological, and physiological pitfalls that lead otherwise intelligent people - including researchers, physicians, and therapists - to endorse these cures, The book's ultimate goal is to reveal not whether these therapies work - as Bausell explains, most do work, although weakly and temporarily - but whether they work for the reasons their proponents believe."--Jacket.