Description |
viii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Series |
Consumer health library |
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Consumer health library.
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Contents |
1. From Believer to Skeptic: My Personal Odyssey -- 2. The "Holistic" Bandwagon: Defective Parts and a Supernatural Chassis -- 3. Macrobiotics: "Livin' Large" ... or Largely Living? -- 4. Hazardous "Hygiene" -- 5. "Esoteric Stuff": The Edgar Cayce Tradition -- 6. The Ayurvedic Medicine Men -- 7. What Price FAIM?: Vitalism Revisited -- 8. The "Weird Science" of Anthroposophy -- 9. Gerson Therapy: Method or Madness? -- 10. The Matol Movement: "The Mission Is Nutrition" -- 11. The Shady Business of Nature's Sunshine -- 12. Nutripathy: Theologic Nutrition or Yellow Snow Job? -- 13. Mail-Order Nutrition: Journey into Mystery -- 14. Chiropractic Nutrition: The "Supplement Underground" -- 15. "Nontraditional" Health Education: Reading, Writing, and Religion |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-278) and index |
Subject |
Alternative medicine.
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Diet therapy.
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New Age movement.
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Nutrition.
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Author |
Barrett, Stephen, 1933-
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LC no. |
92040828 |
ISBN |
0879757612 |
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