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Examining modern medicine's overuse of pharmaceutical and surgical intervention, and the scientific evidence for your body's innate power to heal itself. "Read this breakthrough book!" --Deepak Chopra The miracles of modern medicine--and our overreliance on prescription drugs and surgical procedures--have obscured the evolutionary ability of the body to heal itself, as Oxford University researcher Jeremy Howick explains in this groundbreaking book.Wealthy countries have become highly dependent on medical intervention: On average, one-fifth of all Americans, half of the elderly British, and two-thirds of older Canadians take at least five prescription drugs per day, their lives a nonstop ritual of pill popping and managing side effects. One in ten people takes antidepressants, and millions of boys who can't sit still in school are prescribed methamphetamines.
About the Author
I combine academic research (in both medicine and philosophy) with my personal experience to help people achieve better mind/body health.
As an Oxford philosopher and medical researcher, I have conducted groundbreaking studies about placebos and why we need unbiased experiments. I have degrees from Dartmouth College, the London School of Economics, and the University of Oxford. I have over 75 academic publications in top journals such as the British Medical Journal, Annals of Internal Medicine, and The Lancet. My textbook The Philosophy of Evidence-Based Medicine spearheaded a new sub-discipline, and my latest book translates some of this evidence (and other cool stuff) for a non-academic audience. I collaborate about placebo treatments and the need for rigorous evidence with the National Institutes of Health in the United States, the National Institutes of Health Research in the United Kingdom, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in Canada, and Harvard University.
I also love communicating with people. I've won three teaching awards, appear regularly on television and has written for the Times, the Huffington Post, and TheConversation. I'm currently completing a mega-study of the benefits of doctor empathy.
For more info please visit www.jeremyhowick.com.
