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Index
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Prologue: Taking a Look at Alternative Medicine
Introduction: Saving Joey Hofbauer
Part I: Distrust of Modern Medicine
1: Rediscovering the Past
Part II: The Lure of All Things Natural
2: The Vitamin Craze
Part III: Little Supplement Makers Versus Big Pharma
3: The Supplement Industry Gets a Free Pass
4: Fifty-Four Thousand Supplements
Part IV: When The Stars Shine on Alternative Medicine
5: Menopause and Aging
6: Autism’s Pied Piper
7: Chronic Lyme Disease
Part V: The Hope Business
8: Curing Cancer
9: Sick Children, Desperate Parents
Part VI: Charismatic Healers Are Hard to Resist
10: Magic Potions in the Twenty-First Century
Part VII: Why Some Alternative Therapies Really Do Work
11: The Remarkably Powerful, Highly Underrated Placebo Response
12: When Alternative Medicine Becomes Quackery
Epilogue: Albert Schweitzer and the Witch Doctor
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Also by Paul A. Offit, M.D.
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
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