Product Description: An exploration of the effect our celebrity-dominated culture has on our ideas of living the good life  What would happen if an average Joe tried out for American Idol, underwent a professional makeover, endured Gwyneth Paltrow’s “Clean Cleanse,” and followed the outrageous rituals of the rich and famous? Health law policy researcher Timothy Caulfield finds out in this thoroughly unique, engaging, and provocative book about celebrity culture and its iron grip on today’s society...read more

Product Description: In Do You Believe in Magic?, medical expert Paul A. Offit, MD, offers a scathing expose of the alternative medicine industry, revealing how even though some popular therapies are remarkably helpful due to the placebo response, many of them are ineffective, expensive, and even deadly...read more

Product Description: In Do You Believe in Magic?, medical expert Paul A. Offit, MD, offers a scathing expose of the alternative medicine industry, revealing how even though some popular therapies are remarkably helpful due to the placebo response, many of them are ineffective, expensive, and even deadly...read more

Product Description: From quack cures to infamous doctors, the history of medicine is littered with bad mistakes and unexpected discoveries. This insightful introduction uncovers the stories of Typhiod Mary, Sigmund Freud's misuse of cocaine, why some drugs are worse than diseases, and more.

Product Description: More than a memoir, "Living Scared" is a hard hitting expose' that probes complacent behavior, incompetence and widespread corruption in medicine. This shocking and frightening story takes the reader through our failing healthcare system that shamefully puts profits before patients! Learn about unethical doctors who; 1] lie to cover-up their mistakes, 2] use "scare tactics" to frighten patients into following their direction, 3] manipulate patients into treatment choices that are not in their best interest, 4] illegally perform "ghost surgery" without the patient's knowledge or consent, 5] perform unnecessary surgeries for profit...read more

Product Description: As if history and nature had not provided wonders enough, through the ages humans themselves have contrived more marvels to deceive one another. Sometimes they have concocted evidence when none was available to prove pet theories; sometimes their intention has been to impress or defraud; sometimes they have acted merely for sport...read more

Product Description: This new edition of the most comprehensive text available in the field continues to provide a vast amount of information to enable consumers to make wise choices regarding health products and services. It offers a panoramic view of the health marketplace, while explaining the scientific methods that are essential for validating claims about how products and services affect health...read more

Product Description: This interesting book is a compilation of recent stories from a regular column called "Science Monitor" in The Straits Times, Singapore's main English daily. They focus on exposing health and beauty fads and fallacies like purported breast enlargement methods, baldness treatment and skin renewal therapies which have begun plaguing consumers in Asia...read more

Product Description: J. S. Bach is the most sought after composers of all time. He is everybody's favorite! Best selling author Ben Bolt has inked 12 solos for guitar in this book. Included are moderate to advanced solos in notation and tablature. All 12 solos are recorded in order like the book...read more

Product Description: With all of the negative media about environmental threats over the last four decades, is it any wonder that most people believe disaster is just around the corner?  But despite what the media would lead us to believe, annual reports from the Surgeons General show that Americans are the healthiest they have ever been, are becoming healthier and are, in fact, the healthiest people on the planet...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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An instructive and myth-defying guide to healthy dentistry discusses ways to save money and take better care of your teeth, showing why root canals do not have to be painful, why teeth do not have to be white, and much more. Reprint.

Product Description: A doctor removes the normal, healthy side of a patient's brain instead of the malignant tumor. A man whose leg is scheduled for amputation wakes up to find his healthy leg removed. These recent examples are part of a history of medical disasters and embarrassments as old as the profession itself...read more

A comprehensive guide written by dentists covers both personal and professional dental care options, and tells readers how to make informed decisions about dental work that gets them the best possible care while protecting their wallets.

Product Description: This text provides extensive information about products and services in the health marketplace, enabling consumers to make informed decisions when choosing health care facilities. Specific identification of products and services should also provide practical information for students of health studies and health education to draw on when faced with health care decisions of their own...read more

Examines the theories behind alternative medical treatments, reveals the risks of fad diets and worthless supplements, and exposes health frauds

A guide to identifying worthless medical treatments and remedies discusses the threat they pose to consumers and what can be done to avoid questionable practices and products