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Infectious Madness

Harriet A. Washington

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 tantalizing mysteries, INFECTIOUS MADNESS is rich in science, characters, and practical advice on how to protect yourself and your children from exposure to infectious threats that could sabotage your mental and physical health.

  • Classification : Health, Diet & Fitness
  • Pub Date : NOV 1, 2016
  • Imprint : Little, Brown
  • Page Extent : 304
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780316277815
  • Price : INR 1,299
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Harriet A. Washington

Harriet A. Washington has been the Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada's Black Mountain Institute a Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University and a visiting scholar at DePaul University College of Law. She has held fellowships at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Stanford University. She is the author of Deadly Monopolies Infectious Madness and Medical Apartheid which won a National Book Critics Circle Award the PEN/Oakland Award and the American Library Association Black Caucus Nonfiction Award.

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