Bad Faith, Paul A. Offit, MD
Bad Faith, Paul A. Offit, MD
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Bad Faith
When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine

Author: Paul A. Offit, MD

Narrator: Tom Perkins

Unabridged: 7 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/12/2015

Synopsis

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 disregard modern medicine in favor of using their faith to fight life threatening illnesses. In twenty-first century America, how could this be happening?

Acclaimed physician and author Dr. Paul Offit chronicles the stories of these faithful and their children, whose devastating experiences highlight the tangled relationship between religion and medicine in America. Religious or not, this issue reaches everyone—whether you are seeking treatment at a Catholic hospital or trying to keep your kids safe from diseases spread by their unvaccinated peers.

Replete with vivid storytelling and complex, compelling characters, Bad Faith makes a strenuous case that denying medicine to children in the name of religion isn’t just unwise and immoral, but a rejection of the very best aspects of what belief itself has to offer.

About Paul A. Offit, MD

Paul A. Offit, MD, is the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as well as the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and professor of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning physician, coinventor of a rotavirus vaccine, and the author of several books on medical and scientific issues, including Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure and Vaccines and Your Child: Separating Fact from Fiction with Charlotte A. Moser.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Miri

I don't always finish a nonfiction book in one day, but when I do, it's really good. Fair warning though: this is an emotionally difficult read. Lots of descriptions of children dying awful, painful, totally preventable deaths. But if you can handle it, it's an extremely important issue to get yours......more

Goodreads review by Rennie

Everyone go to jail, please. No really. Christian Science “practitioners”, politicians, faith healers, parents who allow their children to suffer unspeakable abuses, and everyone who enables this bullshit in the name of religious and personal freedom. One chapter near the end describes the discovery......more

Goodreads review by Kris (My Novelesque Life)

BAD FAITH: WHEN RELIGIOUS BELIEF UNDERMINES MODERN MEDICINE Written by Paul A. Offit, M.D. 2015; Basic Books (272 Pages) Genre: nonfiction, medicine, religion, science Rating: ★★★★ I was just going to read the Introduction of this book before I turned to my current read (legal thriller); and the next thi......more

Goodreads review by David

3.5 stars but not rounded up. I guess that's an awkward way of saying 3.5 stars rounded down to 3. I like Dr. Offit's work a great deal and appreciate that he goes head on against thorny issues (the anti-vaccine crowd, faith healing and alternative medicine). He's a man of science, and in the field o......more

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