You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation

From one of America's top physicians, a "riveting," "fascinating," and "timely" (Nature) history of risk in medicine

Every medical decision-whether to have chemotherapy, an X-ray, or surgery-is a risk, no matter which way you choose. In You Bet Your Life, physician Paul A. Offit argues that, from the first blood transfusions four hundred years ago to the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine, risk has been essential to the discovery of new treatments. More importantly, understanding the risks is cr...