| Ilena Rose 2004-10-28, 7:11 pm |
| Very important book ...exposing the Quacks and their practices of
suppressing health alternatives.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A...8719496-9356620
Racketeering In Medicine
The Suppression of Alternatives
James P. Carter, M.D., Dr.P.H.
Add Book Are Americans being deprived of economical and truly
effective
medical treatments because orthodox medicine and and pharmaceutical
companies can't profit from them? With hard-hitting analysis backed by
overwhelming evidence, Dr. Carter presents many disturbing cases of
legitimate therapies being disparaged as quackery, government agencies
harassing alternative practitioners, and drug companies peddling their
influenceŠthe real causes of today's health-care crisis.
Dr. James Puckette Carter was born in Chicago and studied Chemistry at
the
College of Liberal Arts, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
He
completed his M.D. at Northwestern in 1957 and continued his graduate
studies at Columbia university where he received a M.S. in
Parasitology.
He studied Nutrition at Columbia School of Public School and
Administrative Medicine, completing his doctoral work in 1966. Coming
to
Tulane university School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in
1976,
Dr. Carter took the position of Professor and is presently the Head of
the
Nutrition Section.
He also serves as Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Tulane
University
School of Medicine. Dr. Carter was awarded a five-year Faculty
Fellowship
by the Milbank Memorial Fund in 1968 to obtain additional training and
develop his professional career as a medical educator in Nutrition,
Tropical Medicine, Pediatrics and related fields in the Social and
Preventive Aspects of Medicine. This was one of only 44 awards made to
preventive medicine specialist/teachers in the entire Western
Hemisphere.
Dr. Carter has served as the Chairman of the National Advisory
Committee,
Meharry Medical College's General Foods Nutrition Center, Nashville,
Tennessee. He has also served as a consultant in International
Nutrition
to the US Agency for International Development and as a WHO consultant
in
Nutrition to the Sudan. He consults regularly on lifestyle
restructuring,
clinical preventive medicine, alternative medicine, and holistic
health.
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