Alternative Medicine: A Critical Assessment of 150 Modalities
暫譯: 替代醫學：150種療法的批判性評估
Ernst, Edzard
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2019-07-12
- 售價: $1,470
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,397
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 310
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 3030126005
- ISBN-13: 9783030126001
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商品描述
Alternative medicine (AM) is hugely popular; about 40% of the US general population have used at least one type of alternative treatment in the past year, and in Germany this figure is around 70%. The money spent on AM is considerable: the global market is expected to reach nearly US $ 200 billion by 2025, with most of these funds coming directly out of consumers' pockets.
The reasons for this popularity are complex, but misinformation is certainly a prominent factor. The media seem to have an insatiable appetite for the subject and often report uncritically on it. Misinformation about AM on the Internet (currently about 50 million websites are focused on AM) is much more the rule than the exception.
Consumers are thus being bombarded with misinformation on AM and they are ill-protected from such misinformation and therefore prone to making wrong, unwise or dangerous therapeutic decisions, endangering their health and wasting their money.
This book is a reference text aimed at guiding consumers through the maze of AM. The concept of the book is straightforward. It has two main parts. The first, short section provides essential background on AM, explaining in simple terms what is (and what is not) good, reliable evidence, and addressing other relevant issues like, for instance, the placebo response, informed consent, integrative medicine, etc.
The second and main part consists of 150 short chapters, topically grouped and each dedicated to one single alternative therapeutic or diagnostic method. In each of them, seven critical points are raised. These points relate to issues that are important for consumers' decisions whether it is worth trying the method in question. Restricting the discussion to just seven points means that issues must be prioritized to those themes which are most relevant in the context of each given modality.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
替代醫學（AM）非常受歡迎；約有40%的美國一般人口在過去一年中使用過至少一種替代療法，而在德國這一數字約為70%。在替代醫學上的花費相當可觀：全球市場預計到2025年將接近2000億美元，其中大部分資金直接來自消費者的口袋。
這種受歡迎的原因相當複雜，但錯誤資訊無疑是一個突出的因素。媒體似乎對這個主題有著無法滿足的需求，經常不加批判地報導相關內容。互聯網上關於替代醫學的錯誤資訊（目前約有5000萬個網站專注於替代醫學）更是常態而非例外。
因此，消費者正受到大量替代醫學錯誤資訊的轟炸，他們對這些錯誤資訊的防護不足，因此容易做出錯誤、不明智或危險的治療決策，危害自己的健康並浪費金錢。
本書是一部參考文本，旨在指導消費者穿越替代醫學的迷宮。這本書的概念相當簡單。它分為兩個主要部分。第一部分是簡短的背景介紹，提供替代醫學的基本知識，以簡單的術語解釋什麼是（以及什麼不是）良好、可靠的證據，並討論其他相關問題，例如安慰劑反應、知情同意、整合醫學等。
第二部分是主要內容，由150個短章組成，按主題分組，每個章節專注於一種替代療法或診斷方法。在每個章節中，提出七個關鍵點。這些要點與消費者在考慮是否值得嘗試該方法時的重要問題有關。將討論限制在七個要點意味著必須優先考慮在每種療法背景下最相關的主題。
作者簡介
Edzard Ernst has researched all aspects of alternative medicine for 25 years. He and his team have published well over 1000 peer-reviewed papers and many books on the subject, including More Harm than Good? - The Moral Maze of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2018) and Homeopathy - The Undiluted Facts (2016) with Springer. His work has been awarded more than a dozen prizes, including the John Maddox Prize 2016. He retired about six years ago and is emeritus professor of the University of Exeter. He continues to play an active role in the public debate on alternative medicine.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
埃茲德·恩斯特（Edzard Ernst）研究替代醫學的各個方面已有25年。他和他的團隊已發表超過1000篇經過同行評審的論文以及多本相關書籍，包括《比起好來更有害？—互補與替代醫學的道德迷宮》（2018年）和《順勢療法—未稀釋的事實》（2016年），這些書籍均由施普林格（Springer）出版。他的工作獲得了十多個獎項，包括2016年的約翰·馬多克斯獎（John Maddox Prize）。他大約在六年前退休，並擔任埃克塞特大學的名譽教授。他仍然在替代醫學的公共辯論中扮演積極角色。
