Healing or stealing? [[electronic resource] ] : medical charlatans in the New Age / / Jean-Marie Abgrall
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Abgrall Jean-Marie
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| Titolo: |
Healing or stealing? [[electronic resource] ] : medical charlatans in the New Age / / Jean-Marie Abgrall
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Algora Pub., 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 615.8/56 |
| Soggetto topico: | Alternative medicine |
| Quacks and quackery | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Healing or stealing |
| ISBN: | 1-892941-28-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809537103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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