This is the first book that puts the layman into the position to use expert advice rather than be used by the expert.

This book preaches revolution within the politics of heath. The diminishing returns of contemporary medicine is a theme which has become familiar; here, however, we find it extended into that territory most jealously guarded by the proponents of high technology and the keepers of the charitable purse: cancer. The medical management of cancer is the paradigm of the commodity approach to health, based on the doctrine of the specific etiology ( a specific cause for every decease) and the mechanistic therapeutics of body as automobile. In present their natural theory of cancer Kothari and Mehta provide a challenge, rooted in the evidence of the professions, which the world-wide cancer industry will find it difficult to ignore. They also provide a hope that the sacrifice encouraged by the radical critics of Western health care in moving away from a tradition of professional dominance may be nothing like as great as his hitherto been feared.