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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780159003321

Autore

Abgrall Jean-Marie

Titolo

Healing or stealing? [[electronic resource] ] : medical charlatans in the New Age / / Jean-Marie Abgrall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Algora Pub., 2001

ISBN

1-892941-28-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Disciplina

615.8/56

Soggetti

Alternative medicine

Quacks and quackery

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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