Table of contents for Science meets alternative medicine : what the evidence says about unconventional treatments / edited by Wallace Sampson & Lewis Vaughn.

ORIGINS AND TRENDS -

1. In Defense of Scientific Medicine
     Paul Kurtz
2. The Braid of "Alternative Medicine"
      Wallace Sampson
3. Science, Politics, and Alternative Medicine:
   What Physicians Should Know
      Saul Green

PSYCHOLOGY AND BELIEF

4. Alternative Medicine and the Psychology of Belief
      James E. Alcock



6   SCIENCE MEETS ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

5. Social and Judgmental Biases That Make
   Inert Treatments Seem to Work
      Barry L. Beyerstein
 6. The Mischief-Making of Ideomotor Action
      Ray Hyman


THERAPIES AND THEORIES

7. Andrew Weil: Public Perception and Reality
      Arnold S. Relman
 8. Naturopathy
       Barry L. Beyerstein and Susan Downie
 9. Perception of Conventional Sensory Cues as an Alternative
   to the Postulated "Human Energy Field" of Therapeutic Touch
       Rebecca Long, Paul Bernhardt, and William Evans
10. The Colloidal Silver Fraud
       Rosemary Jacobs
11. Medical Conspiracies and the Myth of the "Hidden Cure"
       Steven Novella


ETHICS, FRAUD, AND RISKS

12. The Ethics of Promoting Unproven Treatments
       Lewis Vaughn
13. The Ethics of Alternative Medicine
       Lawrence J. Schneidennrman
14. Therapeutic Touch: What Could Be the Harm?
       Donal P. O'Mathuna
Contributors