This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.

Artificial Epidemics: How Medical Activism Has Inflated the Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer and Depression. By Stewart Justman. Published by Now and Then Reader, 2012.

Guest reviewed by SciCurious

April 20, 2012

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This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.

Bats! Furry Fliers of the Night. By Mary Kay Carson. Published by Bookerella, 2012. 

Reviewed by Carl Zimmer

April 2, 2012

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