Ed Jennifer Barraclough Oxford University Press, £29.95, pp 312 ISBN 0 19 263095 4 Rating: ![Graphic][1] ![Graphic][2] ![Graphic][3] ![Graphic][4] Hype, hope, or healing? Complementary and alternative medicine is becoming increasingly popular in the United Kingdom, with a fifth of the population using it. Britons spend £1.6bn a year on complementary medicine (in the United States the figure is £21bn) and there are now 49 000 practitioners. Complementary medicine adopts a different philosophy to conventional medicine. The idea is that a healthy body is … [1]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif [2]: /embed/inline-graphic-2.gif [3]: /embed/inline-graphic-3.gif [4]: /embed/inline-graphic-4.gif
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