In today's world of medicine, skepticism is sidelined: dissenting doctors and reluctant patients are seen as no more rational than anti-vaccination conspiracy theorists or dubious health-experience pretenders. However, legitimate suspicions have been cast throughout human history, and they persist for good reason.This deep and sympathetic book rejects useless binary thinking, exploring the vast space in which we all live. Many of us need medicine, trust science, but are still wary of big drug companies, unsure of new treatments, and frustrated by a healthcare culture that misleads and prejudges as much as it helps or heals. From the chronically ill to marginalized communities, Caitjan Gente tells the stories of critics, victims and the marginalized of medicine, revealingthe irrational thinking that has created modern medicine and many skeptics of it. re-
\The book "Healthy Skepticism" \ , which is fun, enlightening, and sometimes infuriating, looks at our old tradition of distrusting doctors, and describes a new course of treatment. With a justified dose of doubt, we can see medicine's successes and failures, and understand where our dysfunctional system has gone wrong.
