More Harm than Good? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook More Harm than Good? write by Edzard Ernst. This book was released on 2018-01-11. More Harm than Good? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book reveals the numerous ways in which moral, ethical and legal principles are being violated by those who provide, recommend or sell ‘complementary and alternative medicine’ (CAM). The book analyses both academic literature and internet sources that promote CAM. Additionally the book presents a number of brief scenarios, both hypothetical and real-life, about individuals who use CAM or who fall prey to ethically dubious CAM practitioners. The events and conundrums described in these scenarios could happen to almost anyone. Professor emeritus of complementary medicine Edzard Ernst together with bioethicist Kevin Smith provide a thorough and authoritative ethical analysis of a range of CAM modalities, including acupuncture, chiropractic, herbalism, and homeopathy. This book could and should interest all medical professionals who have contact to complementary medicine and will be an invaluable reference for patients deliberating which course of treatment to adopt.
Does Religion do More Harm than Good?
Does Religion do More Harm than Good? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Does Religion do More Harm than Good? write by Rupert Shortt. This book was released on 2019-03-21. Does Religion do More Harm than Good? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. History is littered with wars and atrocities apparently inspired by religion, and today there seems no end to reports of cruelty and violence carried out in the name of God. But is it belief in God that motivates these evils? Or do they spring from other motives? At the same time, history testifies to numerous benefits to humanity brought about by religious individuals and movements. But despite these positive outcomes might it be true, as some atheists aver, that religion in general does more harm than good? Is religion itself inherently toxic? Or could it simply be that there is good religion and there is bad religion, and we just need to learn to tell the difference? Rupert Shortt's investigation of these questions will encourage both believers and unbelievers to discard the lazy thinking and easy assumptions that so often disfigure the arguments on either side of this debate. It will also facilitate a more sensitive, nuanced and honest approach to religious differences that today still lead to misunderstanding, hatred and violent conflict.
Cracked
Cracked - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cracked write by James Peter Davies. This book was released on 2014-03-06. Cracked available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric drugs prescribed – 47 million antidepressant prescriptions in the UK alone last year – and why, without solid scientific justification, has the number of mental disorders risen from 106 in 1952 to 374 today?The everyday sufferings and setbacks of life are now ‘medicalised’ into illnesses that require treatment – usually with highly profitable drugs. Psychological therapist James Davies uses his insider knowledge to illustrate for a general readership how psychiatry has put riches and medical status above patients’ well-being. The charge sheet is damning: negative drug trials routinely buried; antidepressants that work no better than placebos; research regularly manipulated to produce positive results; doctors, seduced by huge pharmaceutical rewards, creating more disorders and prescribing more pills; and ethical, scientific and treatment flaws unscrupulously concealed by mass-marketing.Cracked reveals for the first time the true human cost of an industry that, in the name of helping others, has actually been helping itself.
More Harm Than Good
More Harm Than Good - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook More Harm Than Good write by Alan ZELICOFF. This book was released on 2008-04-30. More Harm Than Good available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is the treatment we're getting really what we need?
More Harm Than Good
More Harm Than Good - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook More Harm Than Good write by Susan C. Boyd. This book was released on 2016. More Harm Than Good available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In an era when the "war on drugs" has resulted in increasingly militarized responses from police, harsh prison sentences and overcrowded prisons, a re-examination of drug policy is sorely needed. Are prohibitive policies actually effective? In what ways do prohibitive policies affect health care, education, housing and poverty? More Harm Than Good examines the past and current state of Canadian drug policy, especially as it evolved under the Conservative government, and raises key questions about the effects of Canada's increased involvement in and commitment to the war on drugs. The analysis in this book is shaped by critical sociology and feminist perspectives and incorporates insights not only from treatment and service workers on the front lines but also from those who live with the consequences of drug policy on a daily basis: people who use criminalized drugs. The authors propose realistic alternatives to today's failed policy approach and challenge citizens and governments at all levels in Canada to chart a new course in addressing drug-related issues.
