![]() ![]() ![]() This is the book-form equivalent of a cross-breed between tabloid journalism and a series of superficial, but opinionated and self-centered blog posts: short on bonafide science, history, and research generally long on sweeping, generalizing judgments, inappropriately flippant tone, ill-matched pop culture references, character assassination, vagueness and imprecision, the sensational aspects of the diseases treated, and the personal histories of some of the protagonists of the episodes chosen for presentation (clearly not all of them selected for their “heroic” attributes but for their “human interest” and sensationalist appeal). ![]() In substance, I don’t really have a whole lot to add to my one ill-humored status update on this book. ![]()
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