Australian Left Review

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Briefings: 1. Greening Medicine 2. Going Green, Buying Brown 3. Guides For a Green Decade 4. Curtains For Communism? 5. Book Wars 6. A Deaf Ear

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Most people still consider alternative therapies to contemporary western medical treatments as their last resort. They have been sh u n ted from sp ec ia list to specialist, run the gamut of tests, been operated on or prescribed a course of drugs, but they are still in pain or beleaguered by illness. The state of their bodies not their minds leads them to the naturopath’s door, the osteopath’s surgery, the masseuse’s or the acupuncturist’s table.