I was really excited to read Infectious Madness and while Washington makes some interesting points she fails to stick the landing. I would also caution anyone whose loved ones, especially their children, have any of these afflictions to take the contents of this books with a grain of salt. Essentially correlation is not causation and sometimes the sound of hooves is just a horse. Schizophrenia, for example, has been traced to waves of influenza epidemics as well as to infections with bornavirus; species of adolescent anorexia […]
“Microbes do more than infect us, however; they are us, in the sense that we harbor more microbes than human cells”
Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness by Harriet A. Washington