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Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine Audiobook, by Paul A.  Offit Play Audiobook Sample

Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine Audiobook

Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine Audiobook, by Paul A.  Offit Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Corey Snow Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: January 2014 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781452689265

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

15

Longest Chapter Length:

45:35 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

04:49 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

24:52 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

6

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Publisher Description

In Do You Believe in Magic?, medical expert Paul A. Offit, MD, offers a scathing expos├® of the alternative medicine industry, revealing how even though some popular therapies are remarkably helpful due to the placebo response, many of them are ineffective, expensive, and even deadly.

Dr. Offit reveals how alternative medicine—an unregulated industry under no legal obligation to prove its claims or admit its risks—can actually be harmful to our health.

Using dramatic real-life stories, Offit separates the sense from the nonsense, showing why any therapy—alternative or traditional—should be scrutinized. He also shows how some nontraditional methods can do a great deal of good, in some cases exceeding therapies offered by conventional practitioners.

An outspoken advocate for science-based health advocacy who is not afraid to take on media celebrities who promote alternative practices, Dr. Offit advises, "There's no such thing as alternative medicine. There's only medicine that works and medicine that doesn't."

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"This excellent, easy-to-read look at the alternative-medicine industry is highly recommended."

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About Paul A. Offit

Paul A. Offit is an author and a pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases and an expert on vaccines, immunology, and virology. He is the coinventor of a rotavirus vaccine that has been credited with saving hundreds of lives every day. He is the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology, professor of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He has been a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s advisory committee on immunization.