No Way to Treat a Friend - Lifting the Lid on Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine
- animal medicine
- Categories:Pets & Animal Care
- Language:English(Translation Services Available)
- Publication date:March,2017
- Pages:392
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- Size:156mm×234mm
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- Text Color:Black and white
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Description
The book takes a close look at how thinking can go wrong and how animals can appear to respond to treatment even when it is ineffective. Individual alternative practices are examined including homeopathy, acupuncture, raw diets and the anti-vaccination lobby and we find out if their claims stand up to scrutiny. With a thoroughly scientific line, it is not an attack on different belief systems, but a rigorous analysis of the facts, and a consideration of typical CAVM arguments, as well as a helpful explanation for people who may be unfamiliar with what the various therapies entail.
Following on from the several successful books questioning the use of complementary therapies in human medicine such as Bad Science, No Way to Treat a Friend looks at their use in veterinary medicine. This is a valuable resource for veterinary practitioners as well as lay people who are interested in popular science, animal topics, animal welfare and medical matters.
Niall Taylor is veterinary surgeon working in rural Somerset, England. A general practitioner, he also has a long-standing interest in critical thinking and how it relates to complementary and alternative veterinary medicine. He is a founder member of the Campaign for Rational Veterinary Medicine and runs the rationalvetmed.net website. Alex Gough is a Head of Medicine Referrals at Bath Veterinary Referrals, and is the author of the veterinary textbooks Differential Diagnosis in Small Animal Medicine, and Breed Predispositions to Disease in Dogs and Cats, both of which have been translated into multiple languages. He is also an author of historical fiction novels.