Practitioners of alternative medicines and consumers will benefit from reading this first book on a highly relevant subject. Blackwell Science Asia Unlike many of the available texts on complementary and alternative medicine, this one has no edge or political agenda. It presents an easy-to-read overview of the current information, with appropriate criticism of the many design flaws commonly encountered in complementary and alternative medicine research. David A. Baron, D.O., M.S.Ed., Psychosomatics