MEDICINE AND ITS ENEMIES
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Eva Linsinger in conversation with Herbert Lackner and Christoph Zielinski
MEDICINE AND ITS ENEMIES
How charlatans and conspiracy theorists have been fighting science for centuries
Empress Maria Theresa and Johann Wolfgang Goethe were in favour of smallpox vaccination, Immanuel Kant, Andreas Hofer and Karl Lueger agitated against it. Witch hunters, natural healers, Nazi physicians: the journalist and author Herbert Lackner and the well-known oncologist Christoph Zielinski look for the roots of today's anti-science movement in history and describe its profound errors.
The result is the first comprehensive account of a phenomenon that raises many questions: Why are hippies with Rasta curls suddenly marching side by side with right-wing radicals in anti-vaccination demonstrations all over Europe? What connects worried mums and outlandish conspiracy theorists? Why do they trust weird faith healers more than science? And what can we make of their arguments from a medical point of view?
Die Medizin und ihre Feinde (ueberreuter, April 2022, ISBN 978-3-8000-7796-0) provides the answers to these questions.
Herbert Lackner, born in Vienna, studied political science and journalism, was deputy editor-in-chief of the „Arbeiter Zeitung” and then editor-in-chief of the news magazine profil for 23 years. He is the author of numerous articles on contemporary history in profil and Die Zeit. Most recently, his contemporary history bestsellers Als die Nacht sich senkte, Die Flucht der Dichter und Denker and Rückkehr in die fremde Heimat were published by Carl Ueberreuter Verlag.
Christoph Zielinski is a specialist in internal medicine, additional specialist in haematology and internal oncology and human genetics, university professor of internal medicine and clinical immunology. He studied at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna and was a Fellow at the Cancer Research Centre, Boston, USA. He has been President of the Central European Cooperative Oncology Group since 1999. From 2004 to 2017, he was Head of the Department of Internal Medicine I, and from 2004 to 2014 Deputy Medical Director of Vienna General Hospital. Since May 2020, he has been Medical Director of Wiener Privatklinik, Vienna.
Moderation Eva Linsinger, Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Head of Domestic Policy at profil
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Herbert Lackner, Christoph Zielinski
Medicine and its enemies
Carl Ueberreuter Verlag, April 2022, ISBN 978-3-8000-7796-0
In co-operation with Carl Ueberreuter Verlag