Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools of Us All is by Rose Shapiro.
Alternative medicine is an increasingly mainstream industry with a predicted worth of five trillion dollars by the year 2050. Its treatments range from reputable methods like homeopathy and acupuncture to such bizarre therapies as nutraceuticals, ear candling, and ergogenics. Alternative approaches are endorsed by celebrities, embraced by the middle class, and have become a lifestyle choice for many based on their spurious claims of rediscovery of ancient wisdom and the supposedly benign quality of nature. As this hard-hitting survey reveals, despite their growing popularity and expanding market share, there is no hard evidence that any of these so-called natural treatments actually work. It reveals how alternative medicine jeopardizes the health of those it claims to treat, leaches resources from treatments of proven efficacy, and is largely unaccountable and unregulated. Bracing and funny, this is a calling to account of a social and intellectual fraud that has produced a global delusion.
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“A devastating, compelling, and very witty exposé of the increasingly bizarre world of alternative medicine: truly, a book for our times.” —Nicci Gerrard, author, The Moment You Were Gone
“This trenchant polemic against every form of quackery from crystal healing to colonic irrigation is brilliant, necessary stuff.” —Scotland on Sunday
About the author of Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools of Us All:
Rose Shapiro has contributed to Good Housekeeping, the Independent, the Observer, and Time Out.
“Suckers is a fascinating, excoriating book; witty, shocking and utterly convincing.” —George Monbiot, author, Heat
Book Details:
Title: Suckers: How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools of Us All
Author: Rose Shapiro
Publisher: Vintage UK
Published: 2009
Pages: 304
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0099522861
ISBN-13: 978-0099522867
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