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Autore |
Abgrall Jean-Marie |
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Healing or stealing? [[electronic resource] ] : medical charlatans in the New Age / / Jean-Marie Abgrall |
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New York, : Algora Pub., 2001 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (244 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Alternative medicine |
Quacks and quackery |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. From alternative medicine to patamedicine -- 2. And then came Hahnemann -- 3. Needles and pains -- 4. Muscles and bones -- 5. Go for what's natural -- 6. Steiner's heirs -- 7. Everything is in everything, and vice versa -- 8. Tastes and colors -- 9. Waves and magnets -- 10. Cancer, AIDS, and eternal youth -- 11. From mother ocean to the all-embracing mother -- 12. Psychiatry and delusions -- 13. Medicine and cults -- 14. The foundations of patamedicine -- 15. The medical authorities and the charlatans. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Abgrall is one of the world's top experts on cults and the pseudo health movements that prey upon people in need. A practicing psychiatrist and criminologist, he says ""so-called alternative medicine sometimes crosses the line and becomes pure crookery."" A |
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