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Dr. Siegel is a prolific writer, an Associate Professor of Medicine and a Fellow in the Master Scholars Society at New York University School of Medicine, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a Fox News Medical Contributor.

 

Dr. Siegel's "False Alarm: The Truth About the Epidemic of Fear" has been named one of the "Top Science Books of the Year" (Discover Magazine, January 2006 edition). Click on the book cover to order the hardcover edition  from amazon.com, or here to order the paperback edition, click here.
Dr. Siegel's "Bird Flu: Everything you need to know about the next Pandemic" is the most comprehensive study available of Influenza scourges of the past, and of the H5N1 Avian Flu which has infected bird populations overseas click on the book cover to order  your copy from amazon.com
In BIRD FLU, Dr. Marc Siegel cuts through the hype, the facts, the fears, and the realities, to explain what has the experts so worried and why there's plenty of reason to be calm.   According to the Toronto Globe and Mail, "New York University professor and practising internist Marc Siegel is a dab hand at limning public hysteria.... Siegel, a reasonable man, discusses why some experts are worried, but also why panic is vastly premature, as well as a worse threat than the illness itself..."   Among the questions he answers are: What is Bird Flu, and who has it? What can I do to protect my family? Should I stockpile Tamiflu? Will this be like the deadly Spanish Flu of 1918? Why is there no Bird Flu vaccine? Will the annual flu shot protect me? In his sensible and entertaining style, Siegel looks at the advances we've made in treatments, the research still to be done, and the challenges ahead for Asia to lay out a realistic plan for ending this global threat. While a Bird Flu outbreak in the U.S. seems unlikely, there's still a great deal of work to be done in readying America for outbreaks of any kind.

"This is a terrific and groundbreaking book." -
Bob Kerrey, signature review of "False Alarm," Publisher's Weekly

"Dr. Marc Siegel's outstanding book "False Alarm: The Truth About the Epidemic of Fear" should be required reading for every television talking head and listening ear." -
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"Marc Siegel is an articulate voice of reason in a world beset by hype and hysteria. We would be well advised to listen closely to what he has to say." –Jerome Groopman, MD, staff writer, The New Yorker

"A brave, insightful, and ultimately wise expose of how the government and the corporations...rev up our fear to lethal levels--to distract us from our true needs, and the needs of the world. A 'good doctor' indeed." -
Samuel Shem, MD, author of The House of God and Mount Misery

"Relax and put away your duct tape. In exposing the phony politics of fear, Dr. Marc Siegel proves that things aren’t as bleak as they seem. The only thing to fear is fear itself."-
Bill Press, Former Host, CNN’s "Crossfire"

"In this masterful and provocative work, Dr. Marc Siegel, an accomplished physician and author, skillfully dissects our present-day culture of fearmongering. An engaging and readable blend of science, politics, and social criticism, False Alarm--fully supported by extensive research--is an eloquently written and unflinching exploration of fear (real and imagined) in the modern world. Most importantly, Siegel exposes how government officials, the media, and the pharmaceutical industry exploit--and spread--fear for profit and power. They all should be scared of this powerful book." -
 David Corn, Washington editor of The Nation

"A passionate aria that puts Marc Siegel stage center in the Anti-Hysteria chorus. As both an empathetic doctor and a shrewd observer of popular culture, Siegel updates that 1950s truism: Watching TV can be injurious to health...especially if you believe the hype about imminent terrorist threats and fearsome potential epidemics. False Alarm is a color-coded burst of sanity amid the fear and frenzy of 21st Century America."-
Walter Shapiro, author of "One-Car Caravan"

"In "False Alarm: The Truth About the Epidemic of Fear," Marc Siegel, tries to reduce the hysteria quotient with a straightforward recitation of facts and statistics. He says that anthrax, severe acute respiratory syndrome, bird flu and Iraq's so-called weapons of mass destruction have been transformed by exploitative politicians and a pandering media into prompts that raise our anxiety levels much higher than the statistical likelihood of these threats happening...Fear, biologically wired in, has been a protective adaptation that has allowed the human species to survive. But today, as Siegel suggests, it is counter-adaptive"-
Benjamin Barber, Los Angeles Times

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