Snake oil and other preoccupations

Everyone pussyfoots around the world of alternative medicine because it is now a multi-million pound industry that frequently makes claims about curing everything from colds to cancer and gets away with it. John Diamond's look at the whole world of complimentary medicine is based on experience, fact and thousands of anecdotes both supporting and anti, from the millions of people who read his columns and responded, emailing their stories and opinions back to him.Snake Oil will be both personal and poignant, hard hitting and controversial, he tackles the issues raised by alternative medicine with total candour and his usual wit. This is an extremely important book as well as an extremely good read.