Tài liệu The Whole Story - Toby Murcott

The Whole Story
Alternative medicine on trial?
Toby Murcott


Publisher: MacMillan
Number of Pages: 192
Alternative medicine is a fifty billion dollar per year industry, yet it continues to generate strong opposition by the orthodox medical establishment. The Whole Story rounds up the latest evidence on the placebo effect, the randomized control trial, personalized genetic medicine, acupuncture, homeopathy, osteopathy and more. It reaches a provocative conclusion: alternative therapies' whole-body approach might be just what medicine really needs right now to help crack the tough, chronic conditions seemingly untouched by the revolutions of surgery, antiseptics, antibiotics, vaccines and molecular biology.





Contents
acknowledgements ix
preface xi
1. introduction 1
2. medicine’s conundrum 19
3. the advocates 35
4. the critics 52
5. the gold standard tarnished 70
6. measuring the unmeasurable 94
7. hints of understanding 111
8. a new model 125
9. the evidence leads 140
10. conclusion 158
further reading 164
index 168