In recent years, stories of reckless lawyers and greedy citizens have given the legal system, and victims in general, a bad name. Many Americans have come to believe that we live in the land of the litigious, where frivolous lawsuits and absurdly high settlements reign.
Scholars have argued for years that this common view of the depraved ruin of our civil legal system is a myth, but their research and statistics rarely make the news. William Haltom and Michael McCann here persuasively show how popularized distorted understandings of tort litigation (or tort tales) have been perpetuated by...

Dr. McCann, one of America's foremost naturopathic doctors, is prescribing a new kind of medicine for his patients, and he's getting extraordinary results. For many patients, the information in this book will help them get better, to others it will help them not to get sick as often. For some patients, it might even save their lives.

Dr. McCann's preventative approach entails the incorporation of more herbs and minerals into reader's diets, which would foster natural healing responses, thereby limiting our reliance upon man-made drugs, radiation, and surgery.

In his new book, America's foremost naturopathic doctor, Dr. Michael McCann, offers a nutritional model that has not been fully pursued by the medical community. Alternative Therapies for HIV/AIDS offers ideas that have proven effective with some people suffering from HIV and/or AIDS. Dr. McCann's book does not purport to provide a cure, but it provides hope toward enhancing quality of life and extending lives.