🍂 Autumn reading time! Let our AI Librarian find your perfect cozy read 🫖
Explore the literary world of this author
One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
"Medical writing at its finest."—David Oshinsky, author of Polio and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History Respected physician Paul Offit tells a...
What You Should Know
Get the straight facts about vaccines and make informed choices Do you wonder whether vaccines are safe and whether they are all really necessary? Thi...
Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information
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...
How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis
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 va...
How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All
In 2014, California suffered the largest and deadliest outbreak of pertussis, also known as "whooping cough," in more than fifty years. This tragedy w...
When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far
A look at fifteen popular medical treatments that have been shown to be far more harmful than helpful, yet are still recommended by doctors. Modern me...
Separating Fact from Fiction
Two leading advocates for modern vaccines answer parents' numerous questions about the underlying science of modern vaccines and the value of childhoo...
Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
Looks at the history of autism research and argues that the media and advocates have mislead the public in their declaration that childhood vaccinatio...
From Cowpox to mRNA, the Remarkable Story of Vaccines
Vaccines save millions of lives every year, and one man, Maurice Hilleman, was responsible for nine of the big fourteen. Paul Offit recounts his story...
From the latest vaccination evidence, recommendations, and protocols . . . to new vaccine development and the use of vaccines in reducing disease, Plo...
Completely revised and updated, this respected reference offers comprehensive and current coverage of every aspect of vaccination-from development to ...
Vaccines E-Book
From the development of each vaccine to its use in reducing disease, Plotkin's Vaccines, 7th Edition, provides the expert information you need to prov...
Apply the latest vaccination knowledge with a reference that Bill Gates calls "an indispensable guide to the enhancement of the well-being of our worl...
The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine
A medical expert - the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia - offers a scathing expose of the alternati...
Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
Exploring the most fascinating and significant scientific missteps, the author presents seven cautionary lessons to separate good science from bad....
When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine
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 countr...
A physician offers an impassioned and meticulously researched exposé of the alternative medicine industry, separating the sense from the nonsense. A ...
Is lowering your temperature when you have a fever helpful? Do you really need to finish every round of antibiotics? Or could some of the treatments y...
From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation
One of America’s top physicians traces the history of risk in medicine—with powerful lessons for today Every medical decision—whether to have ch...
Vitamins, Supplements, and All Things Natural: A Look Behind the Curtain
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 th...
An Insider's Guide to Deciphering Covid Myths and Navigating Our Post-Pandemic World
From one of the world’s top virologists, the definitive guide to understanding—and navigating—COVID-19. Three years on, COVID is clearly here to...
This book is a go-to guide for all families seeking trustworthy information about the science and safety of vaccines. Paul A. Offit and Charlotte A. M...
What Every Parent Should Know
Here is a straightforward presentation of the facts surrounding the controversial topic of vaccines, a book that confused and worried parents can turn...
This book answers the questions parents most often ask pediatricians about vaccines. It describes vaccines that are given to all children, vaccines th...
A Parent's Guide to Coughs, Colds, Ear Infections, and Sore Throats
Addresses many of the common questions and concerns parents have about the overuse of antibiotics....