Snake Oil Science

Name: Snake Oil Science
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
SKU: 9780195383423
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The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Autor: R. Barker Bausell

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Oxford University Press Inc

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele

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Hailed in the New York Times as "entertaining and immensely educational," Snake Oil Science is not o...

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Autor

R. Barker Bausell

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2009

Stránek

320

EAN

9780195383423

ISBN

0195383427

Enbook ID

04518901

Vydavatel

Oxford University Press Inc

Hmotnost

408

Rozměry

203 x 131 x 26

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Hailed in the New York Times as "entertaining and immensely educational," Snake Oil Science is not only a brilliant critique of alternative medicine, but also a first-rate introduction to interpreting scientific research of any sort. The book's ultimate goal is to illustrate how the placebo effect conspires to make medical therapies appear to be effective--not just to consumers, but to therapists and poorly trained scientists as well. Bausell explores this remarkable phenomenon and explains why research on any therapy that does not factor in the placebo effect (and other placebo-like effects) will inevitably produce false results. Moreover, as the author shows in an impressive survey of research from high-quality scientific journals, studies employing credible placebo controls do not indicate positive effects for alternative therapies beyond those attributable to random chance. Readers will come away from this book with a healthy skepticism of claims about the latest "miracle cure," be it St. John's Wort for depression or acupuncture for chronic pain.

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