Healing or stealing? : medical charlatans in the new age /

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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

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Abgrall, Jean-Marie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: New York : Algora Pub., 2000.
Subjects:
Alternative medicine.
Quacks and quackery.
Therapeutics, Physiological.
Complementary Therapies
Quackery
Médecines parallèles.
Charlatanisme.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychotherapy > General.
Therapeutics, Physiological
Alternative medicine
Quacks and quackery
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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 authorities vs. the charlatans.

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