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Every book Peter Hotez recommended on podcasts
Peter Hotez appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience to discuss public health, medical history, and vaccination science. Throughout the episode, he referenced several notable books to contextualize historical diseases and social issues. Hotez noted that Charles Dickens described historical malaria outbreaks in Illinois within the novel Martin Chuzzlewit. He also discussed Margaret Humphreys's historical research in Malaria, Race and Poverty, highlighting her hypothesis regarding the decline of malaria alongside agricultural and economic development. Reflecting on his own education, Hotez recalled being required to read Michael Harrington's The Other America, a classic work examining hidden poverty in the United States. In stark contrast to these scholarly and historical works, Hotez sharply criticized anti-vaccine literature, specifically denouncing Stephanie Messenger's children's book Melanie's Marvelous Measles as an awful and phony text that falsely downplays the severe dangers of measles while promoting dangerous health misinformation.
Books recommended by Peter Hotez
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Malaria
Discussed“so that's a great question um we so there's actually a very nice book written by a medical historian at duke university named margaret humphries called malaria race and poverty and she has a hypothesis but i think she's onto something that um it the decrease the malaria dropped in associated with aggressive economic development”
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Martin Chuzzlewit
Discussed“in fact there's a whole there's a book written by dickens when he visited the united states called martin chuzzlewitt when he describes all these sickly people in illinois and cairo illinois on the confluence of the mississippi and the ohio river he's clearly describing malaria”
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Melanie's Marvelous Measles
Critiqued“yeah called melanie's marvelous measles i mean it's it's awful”
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Perhaps They'll Listen Now
Discussed“so that's a great question um we so there's actually a very nice book written by a medical historian at duke university named margaret humphries called malaria race and poverty and she has a hypothesis but i think she's onto something that um it the decrease the malaria dropped in associated with aggressive economic development”
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The Other America
Discussed“when i was in high school or junior high school i was forced to read a book and at the time i didn't care about it was called the other america it was written by a fantastic social activist named michael harrington who is a i think someone told me he's very devout catholic”
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Books Peter Hotez wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| #1261 - Peter Hotez | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2019-03-11 | 7 |
Other mentions (8: passing, ad reads, own books)
“so one of the books that I wrote is called Blue Marble health”
“and that's one of the things i talk about in the book i mean we we have learned so much in the last couple of years about autism how it begins early fetal development well before kids ever see vaccines and that's one of the reasons i say vaccines did not cause rachel's autism”
“subject to this book That's that's the next one called marble health the next one so this is not released yet No this is out this actually this actually preceded the oh okay now this book is all about poor people and infectious diseases and that the rise of these infectious diseases even in the united states that's right So”
“no this is out this actually this actually preceded the oh okay now this book is all about poor people and infectious diseases”
“and that's how i start out talking about my book blue marble health about that book the other america by michael harrington”
“but certainly the vaccines not cause racial as autism i wrote it with the idea of parents vaccine hesitant parents and also the pediatricians... um definitely the vaccines do not cause rachel's autism as audio books”
“then i have a third book that i wrote a few years ago called forgotten people forgotten diseases that describes the neglected tropical diseases”
“the vaccines do not cause rachel's autism as audio books”