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• Title:Snake oil science : the truth about complementary and alternative medicine / R. Barker Bausell.
  
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• Author/Creator:Bausell, R. Barker, 1942-
  
• Published/Created:New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WB890 .B29 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Alternative medicine.
  Placebos (Medicine)
  
• Description:xix, 324 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780195313680 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Ch. 1. Rise of Complementary and Alternative Therapies
  Ch. 2. Brief History of Placebos
  Ch. 3. Natural Impediments to Making Valid Inferences
  Ch. 4. Impediments That Prevent Physicians and Therapists from Making Valid Inferences
  Ch. 5. Impediments That Prevent Poorly Trained Scientists from Making Valid Inferences
  Ch. 6. Why Randomized Placebo Control Groups Are Necessary in CAM Research
  Ch. 7. Judging the Credibility and Plausibility of Scientific Evidence
  Ch. 8. Some Personal Research Involving Acupuncture
  Ch. 9. How We Know That the Placebo Effect Exists
  Ch. 10. Biochemical Explanation for the Placebo Effect
  Ch. 11. What High-Quality Trials Reveal About CAM
  Ch. 12. What High-Quality Systematic Reviews Reveal About CAM
  Ch. 13. How CAM Therapies Are Hypothesized to Work
  Ch. 14. Tying Up a Few Loose Ends.