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Title: Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels: The Science Behind Folk Remedies and Old Wives' Tales by Robert Root-Bernstein, Michele Root-Bernstein ISBN: 0-395-82298-X Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Rational, unbiased reports
Comment: The author has made an extensive research on the remedies written about in his book. At the end of the book, he has also advised on how we should accept or not accept old remedies or even modern or popular medical habits - he does not rule out modern medicines. I think a very rational view and discussion was presented.
Like all views given, of course there will definitely be some people who would strongly disagree and deny the book's integrity outright. However to benefit more from intelligence of this book is to have an open mind. Even at the end of the book, I can't bring myself to agree on the urine remedy - but I accept the clear explanations given.
I don't normally buy books and initially I borrowed it from the library, but I'm buying it because I think it's a good book to have for reference at home.
Rating: 5
Summary: Historical Medical Evolution
Comment: Whether or not you buy the conclusions of the authors in regards to the treatments in this book, their discussion and analysis of these treatments in historical context and why the treatments were effective, is extremely important in understanding the evolution of medicine. And if you are someone who is interested in researching folk medicine or discovery of medical treatments, this book is an excellent resource. It certainly presents a lot of information not ordinarily available to the layperson.
Rating: 1
Summary: Poorly researched. A sounding box for personnal beliefs.
Comment: This could have been a good book. The topic is great. Unfortunately, the author allows his personal beliefs to color virtually every aspect of the content thereby allowing the inclusion of many factual errors. No where is this more evident than in the chapter on circumcision. Contrary to the claims in this book, routine circumcision has NO medical benefit. Because it has no medical benefit, NO medical organization in the world recommends it. For example, circumcision does not prevent urinary track infection (urinary track infections are lower in Europe where circumcision is virtually unheard of) and many studies have shown circumcision to increase the rate of HIV infection and the rate of transmitting HIV/AIDS to the female partner (UNAIDS calls using circumcision to prevent AIDS playing Russian Roulette).
Circumcision is not a folk remedy or an old wive's tale. Circumcision was started as a "cure" for masturbation. Since then it has been a procedure in search of a disease. To little attention is paid to the life long harm done to the child. For example, circumcision is now believed to be a contributing factor in male sexual dysfunction since the procedure removes highly sensitive sexual tissue and the unprotected glans becomes desensitized through a hardening of the skin in a process called keritinization.
There are many other sections of this book that are also based on errors or misinformation. See some of the other reviews.
Highly unrecommended.
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Title: Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Marc S., MD Micozzi ISBN: 0443065764 Publisher: Churchill Livingstone Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
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Title: Seasalt's Hidden Powers by Jacques De Langre ISBN: 0916508420 Publisher: Happiness Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: Hydrogen Peroxide: Medical Miracle by William Campbell Douglass ISBN: 1885236077 Publisher: Second Opinion Publishing Pub. Date: 01 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods by Sandor Ellix Katz, Sally Fallon ISBN: 1931498237 Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks ISBN: 0446527793 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 08 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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