Paul A. Offit Audio Books

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.

One of America's top physicians traces the history of risk in medicine - with powerful lessons for today.

In Do You Believe in Magic?, medical expert Paul A. Offit, MD, offers a scathing expos?© 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.

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.

Updated with a New Foreword "Medical writing at its finest."-David Oshinsky, author of Polio and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History

An acclaimed medical expert and patient advocate offers an eye-opening look at many common and widely used medical interventions that have been shown to be far more harmful than helpful. Yet, surprisingly, despite clear evidence to the contrary, most doctors continue to recommend them.