In the tradition of Fast Food Nation, an entertaining, well-argued and very provocative calling to account of a huge and rapidly-expanding industry.
Rose Shapiro has written for newspapers, magazines and medical journals including the Independent, the Observer, Time Out, Good Housekeeping and the Health Service Journal. She lives in Bristol.
a potted history of alternative medicine, as well as a thorough
rebuttal of it, and her research is both fascinating and
illuminating
*New Humanist*
Recommended treatment: another dose of Shapiro
*Daily Mail*
If you already buy into CAM, Shapiro's trade is going to make you
feel angry and / or stupid. Which is sad, because you are exactly
the kind of person who should digest it carefully before reaching
for the arnica
*The Times*
This trenchant polemic against every form of quackery from crystal
healing to colonic irrigation is brilliant, necessary stuff
*Scotland on Sunday*
Very readable book...clear and bracing
*Evening Standard*
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