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Alternative Medicine: The Christian Handbook, Updated and Expanded Donai O'Mathúna, PhD and Walt Larimore, MD. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006. ISBN 9-780310-269991; 511 PAGES, PAPER, £22.99
Today, in the Western world, there is a strong and growing interest in alternative medicine. Many of these alternative means of healing come from the East and are new to and little understood in the West; many have a New Age flair. Some may be beneficial, while others may be harmful - from both a physical and a spiritual point of view. Welcome, therefore, is this book, which aims to guide the Christian reader through the vast field of alternative medicine.
Writing from a perspective that is at the same time Christian and scientific, the aim of the authors is to present the reader with a book that not only provides the latest and most accurate information about alternative medicine, but one that also offers guidelines for a Christian faith -based approach to health and healing.
Divided into three parts, the second edition of Donai Mathúna's and Walt Larimore's work on alternative medicine is an updated and expanded version of their earlier edition. It begins by telling us how to evaluate different alternative therapies and remedies....