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Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness

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Description for Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness Paperback. A groundbreaking look at the connection between germs and mental illness, and how we can protect ourselves. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: VFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 166 x 210 x 24. Weight in Grams: 290.
Is it possible to catch autism or OCD the same way we catch the flu? Can a child's contact with cat litter lead to schizophrenia? In her eye-opening new book, Harriet Washington, author of the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Medical Apartheid, reveals that we can in fact catch mental illness. In INFECTIOUS MADNESS, Washington presents the new germ theory, which posits that many instances of Alzheimer's, OCD, and schizophrenia are caused by viruses, prions, and bacteria, and that with antibiotics, vaccinations, and other strategies, these cases can be easily prevented or treated. Packed with cutting-edge research and ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Back Bay Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
290g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780316277815
SKU
V9780316277815
Shipping Time
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99-1

About Harriet A. Washington
Harriet A. Washington, Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada's Black Mountain Institute, has been a Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University She has held fellowships at the Harvard School of Public Health, Stanford University and DePaul University College of Law. She wrote ... Read more

Reviews for Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness
In Infectious Madness, Harriet Washington confirms her position as one of our most thought-provoking medical writers. Led by Washington on a whirlwind tour of early modern medicine in the 18th century, germ theory, Western anorexia, African sleeping sickness, schizophrenia, and everywhere else, we will forever be unable to think of our microbial environment in the same way. The ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness


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