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Alternative Medicine - A Critical Assessment of 150 Modalities (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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Alternative Medicine - A Critical Assessment of 150 Modalities (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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Alternative medicine (AM) is hugely popular; about 40% of the US
general population have used at least one type of alternative
treatment in the past year, and in Germany this figure is around
70%. The money spent on AM is considerable: the global market is
expected to reach nearly US $ 200 billion by 2025, with most of
these funds coming directly out of consumers' pockets. The reasons
for this popularity are complex, but misinformation is certainly a
prominent factor. The media seem to have an insatiable appetite for
the subject and often report uncritically on it. Misinformation
about AM on the Internet (currently about 50 million websites are
focused on AM) is much more the rule than the exception. Consumers
are thus being bombarded with misinformation on AM, and they are
ill-protected from such misinformation and therefore prone to
making wrong, unwise or dangerous therapeutic decisions,
endangering their health and wasting their money. This book is a
reference text aimed at guiding consumers through the maze of AM.
The concept of the book is straightforward. It has two main parts.
The first, short section provides essential background on AM,
explaining in simple terms what is (and what is not) good, reliable
evidence, and addressing other relevant issues like, for instance,
the placebo response, informed consent, integrative medicine, etc.
The second and main part consists of 150 short chapters, topically
grouped and each dedicated to one single alternative therapeutic or
diagnostic method. In each of them, seven critical points are
raised. These points relate to issues that are important for
consumers' decisions whether it is worth trying the method in
question. Restricting the discussion to just seven points means
that issues must be prioritized to those themes which are most
relevant in the context of each given modality.
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