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The cure for everything
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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… |
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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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… |
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Charlatan
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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… |
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Quack medicine
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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… |
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Quack Doctor
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Caroline Rance |
223 pages : 21 cm |
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Health tips, myths, and tricks
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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… |
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Medical fakes and frauds
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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. |
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Tono-Bungay
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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… |
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