Over the Thanksgiving break, I listened to Malcolm Gladwell's Revenge of the Tipping Point. When his original Tipping Point book celebrated its 25th birthday, the author decided to revisit some of those stories and correct some things he got wrong. Instead, he wrote about some entirely new topics, several of which may be of interest to Health Science Librarians, including:
- How the Opioid Epidemic disproportionately affected certain areas of the US, and why?
- How a certain (very few) Prescribers are more susceptible to the undue influence of drug sales reps?
- Why parents with children in Waldorf schools are more likely NOT to get their kids vaccinated?
- How the local culture of a place affects behavior?
- Is teen suicide contagious? And what factors can protect against it?
He covered a lot more than this short list -- In fact, it's amazing what he ties together. This is just what I'm remembering off the top of my head a week later.
I borrowed the audiobook from my local public library and listened to it through the Libby App. It was free, and they let me check it out for 21 days, rather than the previous default of just 7 days.
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