Healing or stealing? [[electronic resource] ] : medical charlatans in the New Age / / Jean-Marie Abgrall |
Autore | Abgrall Jean-Marie |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Algora Pub., 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
Disciplina | 615.8/56 |
Soggetto topico |
Alternative medicine
Quacks and quackery |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-892941-28-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455779203321 |
Abgrall Jean-Marie | ||
New York, : Algora Pub., 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Healing or stealing? [[electronic resource] ] : medical charlatans in the New Age / / Jean-Marie Abgrall |
Autore | Abgrall Jean-Marie |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Algora Pub., 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
Disciplina | 615.8/56 |
Soggetto topico |
Alternative medicine
Quacks and quackery |
ISBN | 1-892941-28-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780159003321 |
Abgrall Jean-Marie | ||
New York, : Algora Pub., 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Healing or stealing? [[electronic resource] ] : medical charlatans in the New Age / / Jean-Marie Abgrall |
Autore | Abgrall Jean-Marie |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Algora Pub., 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
Disciplina | 615.8/56 |
Soggetto topico |
Alternative medicine
Quacks and quackery |
ISBN | 1-892941-28-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809537103321 |
Abgrall Jean-Marie | ||
New York, : Algora Pub., 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Quack Quack : The Threat of Pseudoscience |
Autore | Schwarcz Joe |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto : , : ECW Press, , 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 pages) |
Disciplina | 615.8/56 |
Soggetto non controllato |
Self-Care, Health
Biology Chemistry Health & Fitness Science |
ISBN |
9781778520235
9781770416581 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover -- Praise for Science Goes Viral -- Also by Dr. Joe Schwarcz -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Quack Quack -- Pseudoscience -- Snake Oil -- Spirits of Salt -- Medicine Shows -- Modernizing Mountebanks -- Poking into the Puke Weed Doctor -- The Chew-Chew and Do-Do Man -- Insert Yogurt Where? -- Dinshah and the Spectro-Chrome -- Electroquackery -- The Prince of Humbug -- McFadden and Physical Culture -- Getting Steinached -- The Dean of Quacks -- Cold Showers and Warm Baths -- A Rabbit out of a Hat -- Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy -- Perkins Tractors -- Iridology and Craniosacral therapy -- Alkaline Nonsense -- Spoon-Bending Fiasco -- Quack Products -- Believing the Unbelievable -- Encountering a "Healer" -- Forceful Sole Searching -- Ear Candles -- Alpha Spin Can Make Your Head Spin -- Email Warnings -- Health Food Store Follies -- Jilly Juice -- Cancer and Carny Tricks -- Trepanation -- Borba's Nonsense -- The Gerson Folly -- Miracle Mineral Solution Is a Nightmare -- Brace Yourself -- No Magic in Quack Cancer Treatments -- The Detox Scam -- Yikes! I'm Infested! -- Graviola Poppycock -- The Healing Code -- Getting Down to Earth -- Cure Your Arthritis . . . Really? -- The Saga of Uri Geller -- I'll Pass on Autourine Therapy -- Moonbeams -- Natural Fallacies -- The Curious "Science" of Oscillococcinum -- Popeye's Folly -- Breatharians and Nutritarians -- Bitterness about Sugar -- A Look at Braco the Gazer -- ------ -- Celebrities and Cerebral Claptrap -- The Myth of "Detox" -- Double Helix Water -- Dunning-Kruger -- Medical Medium -- Fitting Square Pegs into Round Holes -- Bee Pollen and the Office of Alternative Medicine -- Spoonk -- Sylvia Browne -- The Water Revitalizer -- Where's the Aura, Asks Young Emily Rosa -- Infomercials Provide Slanted Science -- Diagnosing Pathological Science.
Putting Pimat's Health Claims to bed -- Chemical-Free Is Not a Good Deal -- Jamie Oliver Cooks Up Some Nonsense -- A Treatment for Chemophobia -- Raw Water -- "The People's Chemist" -- Alternative Medicine -- Some Views on Dealing with Information and Misinformation -- Index -- Back Cover. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910886178403321 |
Schwarcz Joe | ||
Toronto : , : ECW Press, , 2022 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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