Mavericks of Medicine: Exploring the Future of Medicine with Andrew Weil, Jack Kevorkian, Bernie Siegel, Ray Kurzweil,...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 354 pages
• Published by: Smart Publications
• Edition: 1st Edition January 25, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1890572195
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1890572198
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 1.1 pounds

Product Description
Interviews with leading antiaging scientist and experts.

Reader Reviews
While there is no question that medical science has dramatically improved over the last two centuries, the medical community is still an extremely conservative group. The social environment has also changed; socialized medicine and governmental management now means that even relatively slight changes can have a billion-dollar price tag. The massive pharmaceutical companies pull in billions of dollars in revenues, which they will do a great deal to protect. However, despite all the massive machines and the broad spectrum of medicinal chemicals, medicine is still largely an art. There is also a great deal about the workings of the human body that is not known, in fact most of the knowledge in some areas is little more than informed speculation. In this book, Brown interviews several people that are very knowledgeable, but operate on what would be called the fringes of medicine. Their feelings are diverse, yet none is what you would describe as beyond the bounds into quackery. Each person truly believes in what they claim, and nearly all of them practice their beliefs on themselves. Most of their claims involve holistic or a form of natural medicine. What makes this book different from many others is that the interviewees are very knowledgeable in what would be called hard science. They cite scientific findings, biological processes and historical precedent. If you do not have a fairly solid background in science, specifically biology, then you will have a difficult time following many of the interviews. It is certain that not all of the claims made in this book will ultimately prove to be valid. However, if it were possible to look ahead one hundred years, there is no question in my mind that at least one of these visionary proposals will be part of the medical mainstream. The key question is of course, "Which one(s)?"