If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine

The book "If It Sounds Like a Quack" explores the growing universe of non-traditional treatments and the medical freedom movement's challenge to go mainstream. It features alternative healers who find customers and expand, seeking government support and approval.

Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 04 May 2023
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.

American healthcare has become increasingly costly and politicized, making it difficult for everyone to access affordable and reliable medical care. If you cannot afford doctors or do not trust them, where do you turn? In this book, Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling explores the growing universe of non-traditional treatments, including some that may be truly unconventional. With costs skyrocketing and anti-science sentiment spreading, the so-called medical freedom movement has gained momentum. However, it now faces its greatest challenge: going mainstream.

Within these pages, you will meet medical freedom advocates who have unique and unconventional approaches to healing. From an international leech smuggler to a gold miner-turned health drink salesman who claims to be from the Andromeda galaxy, these alternative healers have found customers and expanded their influence. They are constantly seeking government support and approval to take their businesses to the next level.

Should the government dictate what is medicine and what is not? Can we have public health when disagreements over science are this profound? These critical questions are raised in If It Sounds Like a Quack, while also telling the story of how we got to this improbable moment and wondering where we go from here. Buckle up for a bumpy ride, unless you are against seatbelts.

Dimension: 235 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781541788879