Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The cure for everything The cure for everything Timothy A. Caulfield "With the goal of getting to the truth about our health, this book looks at both what the best available scientific evidences tells us about the role of fitness, diet, genetics and health remedies an… OL16240253W
My Year of Rest and Relaxation My Year of Rest and Relaxation Alba Dedeu Surribas,Ottessa Moshfegh It's early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side, and the alienation of Moshfegh's unnamed young protagonist from others is nearly complete when she initiates her yearlong siesta, during which time… OL17889978W
Charlatan Charlatan Pope Brock In 1917, after years of selling worthless patent remedies throughout the Southeast, John R. Brinkley--America's most brazen young con man--arrived in the tiny town of Milford, Kansas. He set up a med… OL1969536W
Quack medicine Quack medicine Eric W. Boyle This book "reveals how efforts to establish an exact border between quackery and legitimate therapeutic practices and medications have largely failed, and details the reasons for this failure. Diggin… OL19969698W
Quack Doctor Quack Doctor Caroline Rance 223 pages : 21 cm OL21492298W
Health tips, myths, and tricks Health tips, myths, and tricks Morton E. Tavel "Dr. Tavel is a physician specializing in internal medicine and cardiology. Now retired, he managed patients for many years and held a faculty position (clinical professor) at Indiana University Scho… OL31188109W
Medical fakes and frauds Medical fakes and frauds Susan K. Gilbert Describes fraudulent remedies and their peddlers over the centuries, probes the reasons people are easily deceived, and offers advice on how to avoid falling prey to false promises. OL4641473W
Tono-Bungay Tono-Bungay H. G. Wells George Ponderovo's quiet young life is changed forever when he is forced to leave home and is apprenticed to his dynamic Uncle Edward in his chemist's shop. Edward, determined to "strike out", invent… OL52269W