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Edited by John W. Spencer and Joseph J. Jacobs. 442 pp., illustrated. St. Louis, Mosby, 1999. $39.95. ISBN 0-8151-2989-0.

Alternative medicine is still exotic territory. Books that survey this terrain resemble earlier travel guides to new worlds. Depending on the writer's position, the reader is treated to tales ranging from Rousseau's accounts of noble savages to Hobbes's predatory heathens. If there were a rating scale for accounts of alternative medicine that ranged from wildly positive to utterly negative, the chapters in this book would hover close to the midpoint. This kind of unbiased collection is remarkable and shows that the scientific investigation of alternative medicine, although in its infancy, is beginning to make this unfamiliar world more accessible.

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