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Synopsis
This is a dictionary of non-traditional medicine written for doctors and intelligent consumers by a medically qualified doctor
This book helps answer the question of whether we can take alternative and complementary approaches to health seriously?
The short answer is yes and no.
Non-traditional health philosophies excel in reducing the risk of western diseases—in particular, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and some cancers—through diet, exercise and lifestyle modification.
Alternative and complementary approaches fail, sometimes spectacularly, to help patients once dread diseases such as AIDS and cancer develop.
This dictionary was compiled by a pathologist with no vested interest, potions or products to sell. It separates the wheat of facts from the chaff of wishful thinking and hubris proffered by too many commercial website
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From the Back Cover
Key Benefit: This timely dictionary contains the medical terms, slang, and acronyms associated with alternative or complimentary medicine. Key Topics: Comprehensive, this text includes terms designated to three groups of therapies and management philosophies: Formal Therapeutic Systems; Informal Therapeutic Systems; and Quackery. All current journals are used for referencing purposes. Market: All health care professionals.
About the Author
Joseph C. Segen, MD (Buchanan General Hospital, Grundy, Virginia)
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