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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.

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"Offit masterfully points out that the denial of medicine in the name of religion actually rejects the basic teaching of religious faith.-- ""Library Journal Starred Review"" ""A thought-provoking discussion of the conflict between society's right to protect all children and the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""Offit is unflinching in his examination of the lethal costs of belief taken to irrational extremes."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""Offit masterfully points out that the denial of medicine in the name of religion actually rejects the basic teaching of religious faith."" -- ""Library Journal (starred review)"""

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Paul A. Offit, MD, is the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as well as the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and professor of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an award-winning physician, coinventor of a rotavirus vaccine, and the author of several books on medical and scientific issues, including Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure and Vaccines and Your Child: Separating Fact from Fiction with Charlotte A. Moser. Tom Perkins, an award-winning audio engineer for over forty years, has expanded his skills to narrating and has earned an AudioFile Earphones Award. He learned by working with the world's best voice talent during his career, and he continues to engineer a variety of projects.

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