Health dissent: resisting attacks on alternative medicine

Authors

Brian Martin, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

83151

Publication Details

Martin, B. (2013). Health dissent: resisting attacks on alternative medicine. Townsend Letter, (August/September), no.361/362, pp93-99.

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Townsend Letter – The Examiner of Alternative Medicine

Abstract

Imagine that you have taken a stand challenging medical orthodoxy. It might be on cancer treatments, diet, alternative therapies, or any number of other issues. You start to come under attack. Critics write hostile comments on blogs; complaints are made to medical authorities; your attempts to organize public talks talks are sabotaged. What should you do?