Examines the dangers of the anti-vaccine movement, describing how parents who choose not to vaccinate their children against pertussis, measles, mumps, and other diseases are putting their children and the entire population at risk.
Identifies obesity as a health crisis of epidemic proportions in the United States, and discusses some of the diseases and disabilities associated with excess weight, including diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, sleep apnea, and others.
The true story of Phineas Gage, whose brain had been pierced by an iron rod in 1848, and who survived and became a case study in how the brain functions.
