Anthony Campbell

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Anthony Campbell, M.D., is a retired physician, homeopath, acupuncturist, author, and skeptic.

He was a consultant physician at The Royal London Homeopathic Hospital until he retired in 1998,^[1] and for many years was the editor of the prestigious British Homeopathic Journal (now Homeopathy), the peer-review journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy.^[2]

Nonetheless, he is a skeptic about much of alternative medicine.^[3] Although a Fellow of the Faculty of Homeopathy who advises that a great many patients have found benefit from homeopathy, Campbell considers that its claimed benefits may be due to the placebo response and other factors unconnected with the medicines themselves,^[4] such as the consultation acting as a form of psychotherapy with a sympathetic listener.^[5] He is regularly quoted in discussions of homeopathy as a practitioner and skeptic.

His books on acupuncture are recommended as appropriate reading material for newly trained members of The British Medical Acupuncture Society.^[6] He also runs training courses and is credited with having done much to further the aim of integrating acupuncture into conventional medicine.^[7]

[edit] Bibliography

The Sacred Malady (fiction). Chatto & Windus (1967)
Seven States of Consciousness. Victor Gollancz (1973); HarperCollins (1973).
The Mechanics of Enlightenment. Victor Gollancz (1975).
The Two Faces of Homoeopathy. Robert Hale (1984).
Acupuncture: The Modern Scientific Approach. Faber (1987).
Getting the Best for your Bad Back. Sheldon (1992).
Natural Selection vs Natural Medicine. Online Originals London (1997).
Acupuncture in Practice: Beyond points and meridians. Butterworth-Heinemann (2001).
Back: Your 100 questions answered. Newleaf (2001)
Beating Back Pain. Mitchell Beazley (2004)