What if cancer wasn't, as scientific consensus holds, a case of errant genes or recalcitrant cells? What if there was a problem in the body's wiring, an electrical issue that hobbled the impulse transmitted from the brain to the organ, disrupting internal balance, and initiating disease? More than 40 years ago, Tom Tam, then a newly minted acupuncturist who passed the state licensing exam without ever having entered a classroom, was asking this question. Don Quixote's Hammer: Tapping into the Healing Power of the Nervous System is the story of what happened next.