The Resource The magic feather effect : the science of alternative medicine and the surprising power of belief, Melanie Warner
The magic feather effect : the science of alternative medicine and the surprising power of belief, Melanie Warner
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- Summary
- Author and journalist Melanie Warner takes readers on a vivid, fascinating journey through the world of alternative medicine. Crossing continents and sides of the debate, visiting prestigious research clinics and ordinary people's homes, she investigates the scientific underpinning for the purportedly magical results of these practices and reveals not only the medical power of beliefs and placebo effects, but also the range, limits, and uses of the surprising system of self-healing that resides inside us.--Adapted from book jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- x, 278 pages
- Contents
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- Donna's Eden: under the influence of an energy healer
- Lost in translation: the enduring practice of acupuncture
- Telltale toothpicks: acupuncture and the randomized, placebo-controlled trial
- The pharmacy within: what does a placebo effect feel like?
- Healing partners: a case of vanishing back pain
- My back is out: the hand therapy of chiropractic
- This feeling in my body: how acupuncture really works
- Brain pain: the modern neuroscientific view of pain
- The illness of disease: energy medicine and a rare disease
- The Zen response: stress reduction and the immune system
- The emotional rescue: a miracle at Lourdes
- All in my head: the German psychosomatics
- Something to believe in: waking up neurons after a spinal cord injury
- Believing is seeing: searching for signs of healing energy
- Why doctors need to be more like alternative healers (and vice versa)
- Isbn
- 9781501121494
- Label
- The magic feather effect : the science of alternative medicine and the surprising power of belief
- Title
- The magic feather effect
- Title remainder
- the science of alternative medicine and the surprising power of belief
- Statement of responsibility
- Melanie Warner
- Title variation
- Science of alternative medicine and the surprising power of belief
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Author and journalist Melanie Warner takes readers on a vivid, fascinating journey through the world of alternative medicine. Crossing continents and sides of the debate, visiting prestigious research clinics and ordinary people's homes, she investigates the scientific underpinning for the purportedly magical results of these practices and reveals not only the medical power of beliefs and placebo effects, but also the range, limits, and uses of the surprising system of self-healing that resides inside us.--Adapted from book jacket
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Warner, Melanie
- Dewey number
- 615.5
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- R733
- LC item number
- .W37 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
- Alternative medicine
- Label
- The magic feather effect : the science of alternative medicine and the surprising power of belief, Melanie Warner
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-260) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Donna's Eden: under the influence of an energy healer -- Lost in translation: the enduring practice of acupuncture -- Telltale toothpicks: acupuncture and the randomized, placebo-controlled trial -- The pharmacy within: what does a placebo effect feel like? -- Healing partners: a case of vanishing back pain -- My back is out: the hand therapy of chiropractic -- This feeling in my body: how acupuncture really works -- Brain pain: the modern neuroscientific view of pain -- The illness of disease: energy medicine and a rare disease -- The Zen response: stress reduction and the immune system -- The emotional rescue: a miracle at Lourdes -- All in my head: the German psychosomatics -- Something to believe in: waking up neurons after a spinal cord injury -- Believing is seeing: searching for signs of healing energy -- Why doctors need to be more like alternative healers (and vice versa)
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- x, 278 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501121494
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)on1039335118
- Label
- The magic feather effect : the science of alternative medicine and the surprising power of belief, Melanie Warner
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-260) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Donna's Eden: under the influence of an energy healer -- Lost in translation: the enduring practice of acupuncture -- Telltale toothpicks: acupuncture and the randomized, placebo-controlled trial -- The pharmacy within: what does a placebo effect feel like? -- Healing partners: a case of vanishing back pain -- My back is out: the hand therapy of chiropractic -- This feeling in my body: how acupuncture really works -- Brain pain: the modern neuroscientific view of pain -- The illness of disease: energy medicine and a rare disease -- The Zen response: stress reduction and the immune system -- The emotional rescue: a miracle at Lourdes -- All in my head: the German psychosomatics -- Something to believe in: waking up neurons after a spinal cord injury -- Believing is seeing: searching for signs of healing energy -- Why doctors need to be more like alternative healers (and vice versa)
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- x, 278 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501121494
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)on1039335118
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