about the author
I’ve always been interested in how things work and from an early age, I was always taking things apart. Clocks, watches, scalextric motors, action man voice boxes, toy tanks and bulldozers, you name it, by the age of ten, I’d have probably dismantled it.
Moving on a couple of decades and a little more orderly minded, my interest in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) was sparked around 1990 after a discussion on how homoeopathy was supposed to work. The mechanics of the therapy just didn’t seem to add up. Here was another intriguing ‘box’ I had to take apart and from that moment, I was hooked.
And so, between husbandhood, fatherhood, full time work, three house moves and two career changes (from mental health support worker for ten years to running my own electronics business since 2004), I spent the next eighteen years on and off, disassembling not only homoeopathy but also just about every other CAM therapy under the umbrella of holism. And boy, were my eyes opened! And not just to alternative medicine but to medicine in general.
Finally, in mid-2008, with teetering piles of paperwork everywhere - page upon page of case study notes, files on each of the therapies, personal correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles almost touching the ceiling, I felt I’d journeyed enough and I spent another six months planning the layout of the book then started writing.
After the usual additions, footnote updates, chapter rewrites and regular 4am starts so I could fit in everything else going on in my life, I finally finished the book in December 2010.
It’s been a long and fascinating journey for me and whether you’re a devout fan or critic of the therapies or you have just a passing interest in alternative health, I hope you enjoy the end result. I’m married with three grown up children and live in Sussex by the sea.
Chapters
- The Ultimate Temptress FREE
- No Stone Unturned FREE
- Homoeopathy: The Formative Years FREE
- Death by Doctoring
- Hahnemann’s ‘Secret’ Powders
- Like Cures Like?
- Just My Imagination Running Away With Me
- Less is More?
- The Memory of Water And other Fancies
- Our Wonderful Immune System
- A Certain Charm
- Veterinary Homoeopathy
- The Dance Of Homoeopathy
- Gimme The Moonlight!
- Hahnemann’s Latter Years
- Homoeopathy Today
- Bach Flower Remedies
- Acupuncture FREE
- Naturopathy
- The Feng Shui Horrorscope
- Reflexology, Iridology and other Intolerances
- The Medicine Business
- Ooooh! Heaven is a Place on Earth!
- My Kingdom for Consistency!
- Nothing New Under the Sun
- References
