Acupuncture, Expertise and Cross-Cultural Medicine

Alternative medicine is a fifty billion dollar per year industry. But is it all nonsense? 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 conclusio...

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Main Author: Bivins, Roberta E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2000, 2000
Series:Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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