Description: This groundbreaking and controversial narrative investigation into the science, history, medical politics, and patient experience of Lyme disease is told by a science journalist whose entire family contracted the disease.

Discover magazine editor and former Chappaqua resident Pam Weintraub
discusses her shocking expose of an epidemic right in your own
backyard. With her family's grueling medical odyssey as the starting
point, Weintraub lifts the veil to expose the under-the-radar history,
politics, and science of tick-borne disease. From inadequate tests and
treatments to contested late symptoms like cardiac illness, memory
loss and psychiatric disease to insurance company denials, she reveals
the ticking clock of a raging epidemic. Discussion will include the
deep drivers of the war over Lyme disease, expert conflicts of
interest, the threat of different Lyme strains and co- infections, and
hope for better tests and treatments up the road.

Praise for CURE UNKNOWN
"Pam Weintraub, veteran science writer, weaves personal narrative with
hard-hitting investigative journalism to bring the underground
epidemic of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases up from under the
radar." -Rebecca Wells, author of Ya-Yas in Bloom and Divine Secrets
of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

"In CURE UNKNOWN, Pamela Weintraub has produced both the definitive
book about Lyme disease and associated disorders and a survivor's
account of a grueling medical odyssey...This is an important and
unforgettable book, destined to make a lasting contribution to the
field of investigative health journalism." -Kaja Perina, editor in
chief of Psychology Today

"Pamela Weintraub's book is compelling, clear and troubling." -Patti
Adcroft, editorial director of Discover magazine

"Science journalism at its best." --Amiram Katz, MD, Clinical Faculty,
Neurology Department, Yale School of Medicine

Weintraub turns a tragic yet eye-opening experience into a shocking
exposure of what can happen when egos, greed, and peer pressure
supercede objective evidence, allowing patients to suffer chronic,
disabling illness. –Donna Chavez, Booklist

Exhaustively researched and highly recommended. –Tina Neville, Library Journal

A tale of biological complexities, scientific turf battles, political
intrigue, human egos and money – lots of it. –Dorothy Kupcha Leland,
Sacramento Bee

Compelling, clear and troubling. -Patti Adcroft, editorial director of
Discover magazine