Alternatives In Healing: An Open-Minded Approach to Finding the Best Treatment for your Health Problems

Simon Mills and Steven J. Finando

ISBN 10: 0453006299 / ISBN 13: 9780453006293

Published by New American Library, 1989

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180 x 264 x 23mm. 240pp. Jacket has remains of adhesive tape on front panel; otherwise book and jacket are clean, with internal pages as new. NB: An extra shipping charge may be requested for heavier or more valuable items. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alternatives In Healing: An Open-Minded Approach to Finding the Best Treatment for your Health Problems
• Publisher: New American Library
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0453006299
• ISBN 13: 9780453006293
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Compares the practices and principles of standard medicine with those of acupuncture, osteopathy, medical herbalism, homeopathy, and chiropractic practice, discussing thirty specific health problems

Reviews

"You'd better shop around" is this guide's down-to-earth message. Coauthored by a medical herbalist and an holistic health specialist, it is likely to appeal to readers dissatisfied with Western medical orthodoxy. First explaining the concepts underlying allopathy (i.e., standard Western medicine), acupuncture, chiropractic therapy, homeopathy, medical herbalism and osteopathy/naturopathy, the authors then present case studies of a wide variety of medical problems followed by practitioners' descriptions of how these would be treated according to each discipline. Though even-handed assessment is the goal, inevitably the language of acupuncture comes to sound quaintly medieval; predictably, the general practitioner frequently resorts to antibiotics; and herbalistic and homeopathic treatments begin by restoring patient immunity worn down by years of antibiotic use. Thus, it is ironic that in severe illness (e.g., tuberculosis) the burden of cure falls squarely on orthodoxy, despite the lure of alternatives.
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