Richard A. Jaffe is an attorney with an. odd specialty; he defends medical mavericks.

Alternative health is a big business. The dietary supplement industry alone generates more than twenty billion dollars annually. Almost half of Americans use unconventional remedies and experimental treatments for conditions such as terminal cancer, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, autism, and fibromyalgia.

Galileo's Lawyer is an insider's view of the alternative health field as told from the perspective of the legal battles involving the most popular and controversial complementary and alternative health practitioners.

• Go inside the courtroom during the government's attempts to shut down a cancer clinic which was saving hundreds of terminally ill patients, and see how the U.S. Congress came to the clinic's rescue;
• Meet a group of New Jersey Chiropractors who sued the government for "racketeering" for employing an illegal extortion scheme;
• Watch the nutritionists battle the dietitians over dietary supplements; and
• Find out why naturopaths are prosecuted for practicing medicine without a license.

Galileo's Lawyer is a, living history about the struggles between medical mavericks, their patients, and the government.

Jaffe practices law in Houston, Texas. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he studied Philosophy and the History and Philosophy of Science and Columbia University where he studied law. For more information, see his Web site at www.richardjaffe.com.

289 pages. $18.00

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