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Every medical decisionāwhether to have chemotherapy, an X-ray, or surgeryāis a risk, no matter which way you choose. In You Bet Your Life, physician Paul A. Offit argues that, from the first blood transfusions four hundred years ago to the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine, risk has been essential to the discovery of new treatments. More importantly, understanding the risks is crucial to whether, as a society or as individuals, we accept them.āÆĀ
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Told in Offitās vigorous and rigorous style, You Bet Your Life is an entertaining history of medicine. But it also lays bare the tortured relationships between intellectual breakthroughs, political realities, and human foibles. As we have learned from the COVID pandemicāthe debates over lockdowns, masks, and vaccinesāitās all too easy to get everything wrong. Updated with a new introduction, You Bet Your Life is an essential read for getting the future a bit more right.āÆĀ
This book title, You Bet Your Life (From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation), ISBN: 9781541604926, by Paul A Offit, published by Basic Books (May 14, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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