Snake Oil
| Introduction by | Dominic Lawson |
| Foreword by | Richard Dawkins |
| Publisher | Random House, Vintage |
| Printed by | Bookmarque Ltd |
| Typeset by | SX Composing DTP |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | London |
| Copyright | 2001 |
| Pages / Font | 285 pages |
| ISBN | 0-099-42833-4 |
| Barcode | 9 780099 428336 |
| Printer's Key | 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 |
| Price | £7.99 |
| Chapters | Snake Oil: Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Other Preoccupations: The Bland Leading the Blind Geneva - from Rolex to Omega Water, Water Every Way Cutting a Wooden Dash Abdication Special Anyone Can Be a Wordsmith How Men Size Up the Opposition The First Date: Making it Watertight Does My Bottom Look Too Big? Trying Times When a Film Script Becomes Real Life Call me Picky Baby Bore Soggy Bread Exists in Three Dimensions Animism Column Gone Twenty Ways to Tell You're Middle-Aged He's Me The Unified Theory of Horticultural Science The Economy Ordinary People I Thought I had Cancer My Hassidic Problem The Secrets of Nostradamus Things You Didn't Know About Arthropods It's Everywhere Not the Real Me Things are So-so Selling Roses on the Cromwell Road Nannydom Iatrogenesis Not Myself I am Not Me Anymore The Oddest Thing I'll Start with the Pear Sorry, Mrs W Yhjtiohjoite The Last Cockney In the Name of Science The Hard Sell Windsor? Nah, Wineberg Oy, Is This Language Course a Pain! The Problem with Cancer Fifty-Kilo Sack of Flour Through the Mirror My First Official Swallow How to Sleep The Funniest Thing since Steve Coogan The Meal Thing The Most Unlikely of Experiences On Death Row It's the One About … What It's Like to be Young in Glasgow Dumb Suicidal Bastard The Little Things The Alto Sax Twas the Week Before You Know When Reasons to be Cheerful Anger Donor Cards Doctors are Much Safer than they Seem From Your War Correspondent The Final Insult |
| Notes | At the time of his death John Diamond had completed six chapters of a book about complementary medicine - these form the first section of the book. The second section present a selection of articles and columns from the Times, the Jewish Chronicle and other publications. |
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