Columbia University Press

Separating Fact from FictionPaul A. Offit, M.D., and Charlotte A. Moser, leading advocates for modern vaccines, answer parents' numerous questions about the underlying science of modern vaccines and the value of childhood immunization, while forthrightly addressing parents' concerns about vaccine safety. In straightforward prose, the authors...

Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of EpidemiologyThe media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives, but many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly overblown. According to author and epidemiologist Geoffrey C. Kabat, this hyping of low-level environmental hazards leads to needless...

The Science and Politics of Dietary AdvicePopularized by Michael Pollan in his best-selling In Defense of Food, Gyorgy Scrinis concept of nutritionism refers to the reductive understanding of nutrients as the key indicators of healthy foodan approach to food that now dominates nutrition science, dietary advice, and food marketing. Scrinis argues...