Too many useless prescriptions and rigid diagnoses are lurk behind the authority and good conscience of official medicine, a profession concerned with maintaining the limits of its power and knowledge. This book denounces the illusions of the modern health religion and the dream of a world relieved of all illness.
A professor at Trinity College, Petr Skrabanek is the enfant terrible of Irish medicine, while James McCormick accumulates those honors on the other side of the English Channel.