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Author Offit, Paul A.

Title Bad faith : when religious belief undermines modern medicine [Hoopla electronic resource] / Paul A. Offit.

Edition Unabridged.
Publication Info. [United States] : Tantor Audio, 2015.
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Description 1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 01 min.)) : digital.
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Cast Read by Tom Perkins.
Summary 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 country-despite the fact that these are all vaccine-preventable diseases. Although America is the most medically advanced place in the world, many people disregard modern medicine in favor of using their faith to fight life threatening illnesses. In twenty-first century America, how could this be happening? Acclaimed physician and author Dr. Paul Offit chronicles the stories of these faithful and their children, whose devastating experiences highlight the tangled relationship between religion and medicine in America. Religious or not, this issue reaches everyone-whether you are seeking treatment at a Catholic hospital or trying to keep your kids safe from diseases spread by their unvaccinated peers. Replete with vivid storytelling and complex, compelling characters, Bad Faith makes a strenuous case that denying medicine to children in the name of religion isn't just unwise and immoral, but a rejection of the very best aspects of what belief itself has to offer.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject Medicine -- Religious aspects.
Child welfare.
Spiritual healing.
Patient refusal of treatment.
Added Author Perkins, Tom (Sound engineer) Narrator.
hoopla digital.
ISBN 9781494592028 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
1494592029 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
Music No. MWT11347501
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