A history of medicine's infamous blunders and unexpected discoveries includes accounts of Typhoid Mary, Sigmund Freud's misuse of cocaine, and drugs that proved more harmful than the diseases they treated.
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Everyone has their own 'bad science' moments, encompassing everything from the useless pie charts on the back of cereal boxes to the use of the word 'visibly' in cosmetics adverts. Full of spleen, Ben Goldacre takes the reader on a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey…
Everyone has their own 'bad science' moments, encompassing everything from the useless pie charts on the back of cereal boxes to the use of the word 'visibly' in cosmetics adverts. Full of spleen, Ben Goldacre takes the reader on a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey…
"This is the story of man's enduring curiosity about the way that food sustains life, and of our untiring struggle to find the vital ingredients of a healthy diet." "It is a story of heroes and villains, of scientists who risked their lives in self-experimentation, and of quacks…
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"Medical practices, commerce, and advertising are explored in relation to the history of the rise and eventural demise of the medicine show in America."--Preface
"Medical practices, commerce, and advertising are explored in relation to the history of the rise and eventural demise of the medicine show in America."--Preface.
"U.S. health care is a $2.5 trillion system that accounts for more than 17 percent of the nation's GDP. It is also highly susceptible to fraud. Estimates vary, but some observers believe that as much as 10 percent of all medical billing involves some type of fraud. In 2009, New …
U.S. health care is a $2.5 trillion system that accounts for more than 17 percent of the nation's GDP. It is also highly susceptible to fraud. Estimates vary, but some observers believe that as much as 10 percent of all medical billing involves some type of fraud. In 2009, New Y…
"U.S. health care is a $2.5 trillion system that accounts for more than 17 percent of the nation's GDP. It is also highly susceptible to fraud. Estimates vary, but some observers believe that as much as 10 percent of all medical billing involves some type of fraud. In 2009, New …
"U.S. health care is a $2.5 trillion system that accounts for more than 17 percent of the nation's GDP. It is also highly susceptible to fraud. Estimates vary, but some observers believe that as much as 10 percent of all medical billing involves some type of fraud. In 2009, New …
Aspects of mental illness are still a mystery. Answers to the most important questions in psychiatry may require decades of further research, so it is important to critique contemporary practice - especially as fads in psychiatry have occurred not only on the fringe, but in the …
This book examines the fads and fallacies that have and continue to plague psychiatry, in both diagnosis and in treatment. It aims to highlight the limitations of current psychiatry.
Medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing exposé of the alternative medicine industry, revealing how even though some popular therapies are remarkably helpful due to the placebo response, many of them are ineffective, expensive, and even deadly.
Medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing exposé of the alternative medicine industry, revealing how even though some popular therapies are remarkably helpful due to the placebo response, many of them are ineffective, expensive, and even deadly.
