title: The Health Scandal The Health Scandal Coleman V Published by Sidgwick & Jack- son 246pp £12.95 0-283-99509-2 [Formula: see text].
abstract: Vernon Coleman's book should contain a health warning. Reading it is likely to effect the blood pressure adversely, because it bluntly challenges most of the sacred cows nurtured by the medical profession and, in so doing, many personally held beliefs. It is possible to discount what is written as so much hot air, but Coleman is a well-known persuasive writer whose arguments, based on research and experience, are sound.