Author: Harriet Hall
Harriet Hall, MD, also known as the “SkepDoc,” is a retired Air Force family physician and flight surgeon who writes about pseudoscientific and so-called alternative medicine. She is a contributing editor and columnist for the Skeptical Inquirer.
Science’s Triumph Over Infectious Disease Has a Downside
Plagues and the Paradox of Progress: Why the World Is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways, by Thomas J. Bollyky (MIT Press, Cambridge, 2018. ISBN 978-0-262-03844-4). 272 pages. $27.95 This book explains the history of infectious diseases and plagues and shows how science has worked to overcome them; the author, Thomas Bollyky, argues that the …
Persevere: A Life with Cancer, by Lisa Bonchek Adams
Persevere: A Life with Cancer, by Lisa Bonchek Adams (The Bonchek Family Foundation, 2017, ISBN 978-0999162903) 320 pp. Softcover, $19.95. This book is a gem. Lisa Bonchek Adams was an atheist, a realist, and a talented writer and poet. Before her recent death from breast cancer, she shared her experience and her insights with …