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|author=Edzard Ernst
|title=A Scientist in Wonderland: A Memoir of Searching for Truth and Finding Trouble
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Professor Edzard Ernst was born in Germany not long after the end of World War II and grew up with guilt about what had happened in the years before he was born as well as an insatiable curiosity - with the two not being entirely entirely unconnected. He also developed an attitude of speaking his mind - as an early challenge to his step-father about the death of six million Jews in the course of the war proved. In his teens he wasn't determined to become a doctor - he had a hankering to be a musician - despite the fact that it was the family business, so to speak, but came round to the idea and practiced in various countries before settling in Exeter as Professor of Complementary Medicine at the university.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845407776</amazonuk>
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|summary=''We provide an irresistible opportunity for enterprising microbes by the ubiquity and abundance of our human bodies.'' This is a salient fact taken away from David Quammen's ''Spillover''. The entire book is a most trenchant eye-opener to just how much of an impact animal infections have on people; approximately 60% of human infectious diseases are ''zoonoses'', 'animal [infections] transmissible to humans'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099522853</amazonuk>
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