What Your Doctor Won't Tell You : The Complete Guide to the Latest in Alternative Medicine - Softcover

Heimlich, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060965398 ISBN 13: 9780060965396

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 1990

Synopsis

Take Charge of Your Own Health

From hypertension to hardening of the arteries, cancer to cataracts, Heimlich's authoritative guide surveys the latest nonconventional medical treatments for today's most prevalent diseases. What Your Doctor Won't Tell You is an objective, up-to-the minute sourcebook on the most significant alternative approaches to health, including:

Antioxidants · Bach Flower Remedies · BiomagnetismColon Detoxification · Electrodiagnosis · Fish Oils · HomeopathyKinesiology · Live Cell Therapy · MacrobioticsOrthomolecular Medicine · Ozone Therapy · Vitamin C Infusion· And much more

What Your Doctor Wont Tell You introduces you to a new world of medical doctors trained in nutrition and preventive medicine. Heimlich offers objective appraisals of dozens of mainstream medical treatments, from chemotherapy to bypass surgery, and describes why the medical establishment continues to rely on toxic drugs and ineffective treatments owing to its ties with big business and government.

Covering both time-honored and cutting-edge procedures, What Your Doctor Won't Tell You is an in-depth overview of the best that alternative medicine has to offer.

About this title

About the Author:

Jane Heimlich has written a weekly health column for the Cincinnati Enquirer and is coauthor of the widely acclaimed Homeopathic Medicine at Home. She lives in Cincinnati with her husband, Dr. Henry Heimlich, inventor of the Heimlich Maneuver.

From Publishers Weekly:

Consumers could certainly use a solid journalistic examination of "alternative" medical therapies and their advocates. Heimlich's, unfortunately, is not that book. While justifiably deploring overmedication and unnecessary surgery, Heimlich ( Homeopathic Medicine at Home ) accepts uncritically many suggestions, so long as they do not emanate from the "establishment." The result is a melange of solid good sense (stop smoking to prevent heart disease), interesting potential (acupuncture as a treatment for sundry ailments; the mind-body connection) and much that is highly dubious and potentially dangerous, including discredited south-of-the-border cancer therapies, floral extracts, magnets and "psychic diagnosis." Typical of the author's gullibility is her failure to impute other than altruistic motives to her sources; she accepts, with no apparent awareness of conflict of interest, an "expert" opinion on vitamin megadoses from a manufacturer of such products. Her book will bolster the convictions of believers; its anecdotes, testimonials and naivete will rightly reinforce the doubts of skeptics. Heimlich is married to Henry Heimlich, the physician who devised the lifesaving Heimlich Maneuver.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0060965398
• ISBN 13: 9780060965396
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320