Paul Offit: 10 books
Bad Advice
Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Science doesn’t speak for itself. Neck-deep in work that can be messy and confounding, and naïve in the ways of public communication, scientists are often unable to package their insights into the neat narratives that the public requires. Enter the celebrities, the advocates, the lobbyists, and...
Autism's False Prophets
Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
A London researcher was the first to assert that the combination measles-mumps-rubella vaccine known as MMR caused autism in children. Following this "discovery," a handful of parents declared that a mercury-containing preservative in several vaccines was responsible for the disease. If mercury caused...
Vaccines and Your Child
Separating Fact from Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Paul A. Offit and Charlotte A. Moser answer questions about the science and safety of modern vaccines. In straightforward prose, they explain how vaccines work, how they are made, and how they are tested. Most important, they separate the real risks of vaccines from feared but unfounded risks.
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Bad Faith
When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
In recent years, there have been major outbreaks of whooping cough among children in California, mumps in New York, and measles in Ohio's Amish country-despite the fact that these are all vaccine-preventable diseases. Although America is the most medically advanced place in the world, many people...
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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Pandora's Lab
Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction?
History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating—and significant—missteps: from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids...
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...
by Barbara A. Baker, Louis A Rabb, Roberta S. Maguire
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
This collection consists of essays written by prominent African American literature, jazz, and Albert Murray scholars, reminiscences from Murray protégés and associates, and interviews with Murray himself. It illustrates Murray’s place as a central figure in African American arts and...
by Stanley A. Plotkin, MD, Walter Orenstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2012
Apply the latest vaccination knowledge with a reference that Bill Gates calls "an indispensable guide to the enhancement of the well-being of our world." Inside Vaccines, you’ll find comprehensive and current coverage of every aspect of vaccination, from the development of each vaccine...