Conville & Walsh
Trick or Treatment?
Alternative Medicine on Trial
- Author:
Simon Singh
Edzard Ernst - Category: Non-fiction Lifestyle Health Science
- Publisher: Bantam
- Pub date: April 2008
- Length: 352 pages
About Trick or Treatment?
A definitive - if controversial - guide to what works, and what doesn’t. It makes indispensable, if sometimes alarming, reading
- DAILY MAIL
Britain’s first professor of complementary and alternative medicine teams up with one of the world’s most successful science writers to reveal the truth about the potions, lotions, pills, needles, pummelling and energizing that lie beyond the realms of conventional medicine and that supposedly heal patients.
So what works and what doesn’t? What are the secrets, and what are the lies? Who can you trust, and who’s ripping you off? Can science decide what is best, or do the old wives’ tales really tap into ancient, superior wisdom?
All this and more in the world’s most honest examination of complementary and alternative medicine.
About the Author
Simon Singh was born in Somerset of Punjabi descent, studied physics at Imperial College, London, and took a PhD in particle physics at the University of Cambridge.
In 1990 he joined the BBC’s Science Department, where he was a producer and director in programmes such as Tomorrow’s World and Horizon. In 1996 he directed Fermat’s Last Theorem, a BAFTA award winning documentary about the world’s most notorious mathematical problem. The documentary was also aired in America as part of the NOVA series. The Proof, as it was re-titled, was also nominated for an Emmy.
Since then, Simon has researched the history of code-breaking, writing books and presenting a Channel 4 series about the topic. He has also become interested in studying the effectiveness of alternative therapies, and recently teamed up with Professor Edzard Ernst to write TRICK OR TREATMENT? : Alternative Medicine on Trial.