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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction

1. Breast Cancer for a Week

2. The Conversion of a Skeptic

3. Miracle or Mind?

4. The Evidence

5. Old Time Medicine: Pagan and Ancient

6. A Short History of Medicine

7. Human Machine/Human Statistic

8. The Myriad Modes of Alternative Medicine

9. The Power of the Mind

10. The Culture of Illness

11. Propaganda for Illness

12. The Language of Illness

13. Varieties of Faith

14. Holistic & Integrative Medicine

15. Countless Cases of Non-medical Cures

16. The Physiology of Faith

17. Breakthrough Medicine

18. Fighting Disease -- A Losing Battle

19. Triggering the Placebo Effect

20. The Revelation

21. Faith and the Placebo Effect

Afterword
Footnotes
Bibliography

Table of Contents  |  Introduction  |  Chapter 1  |  Chapter 2  |  Chapter 3