Paul A Offit M D : 3 books
Do You Believe in Magic?
The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
In Do You Believe in Magic?, medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing exposé of the alternative medicine industry, revealing how even though some popular therapies are remarkably helpful due to the placebo response, many of them are ineffective, expensive, and even deadly.
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by Paul A. Offit, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Vaccines have saved more lives than any other single medical advance. Yet today only four companies make vaccines, and there is a growing crisis in vaccine availability. Why has this happened? This remarkable book recounts for the first time a devastating episode in 1955 at Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley,...
Vaccinated
Triumph, Controversy, and An Uncertain F
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Maurice Hilleman's mother died a day after he was born and his twin sister stillborn. As an adult, he said that he felt he had escaped an appointment with death. He made it his life's work to see that others could do the same. Born into the life of a Montana chicken farmer, Hilleman ran off to the...