Bad medicine : misconceptions and misuses revealed, from distance healing to vitamin O / Christopher Wanjek.
- Wanjek, Christopher, 1967-
- Date:
- [2003], ©2003
- Books
- Online
About this work
Description
& Quot;Christopher Wanjek uses a take-no-prisoners approach in debunking the outrageous nonsense being heaped on a gullible public in the name of science and medicine. Wanjek writes with clarity, humor, and humanity, and simultaneously informs and entertains.".-Dr. Michael Shermer, Publisher, Skeptic magazine; monthly columnist, . Scientific American; author of Why People Believe Weird Things. Prehistoric humans believed cedar ashes and incantations could cure a head injury. Ancient Egyptians believed the heart was the center of thought, the liver produced blood, and the brain cooled the b.
Publication/Creation
New York : J. Wiley, [2003], ©2003.
Physical description
1 online resource (vii, 280 pages) : illustrations
Series
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
I sing the body eclectic -- Growing old -- Enough to make you sick -- Eating it up -- The return of the witch doctor -- Risking it all -- Just like in the movies.
Type/Technique
Languages
Holdings
Permanent link
Identifiers
ISBN
- 0471463159
- 9780471463153