In this engrossing and informative book, National Public Radio commentator Tim Brookes conducts a passionate inquest into the origins and treatment of asthma. His motives are both journalistic - some 12 million Americans have asthma - and personal: Brookes himself is asthmatic and nearly died from an attack.Catching My Breath records Brooke's mystifying and sometimes infuriating encounters with doctors,
insurance companies, and homeopathic healers. He peers into a living human lung, undergoes homeopathic injections of silver and tobacco leaf in his back and neck, and even sees a psychic to ask otherworldly spirits about the causes of asthma. He surveys the dubious history of treatments…
This book is a skillfully woven tapestry of
personal journey and medical fact. Tim Brookes
tells his story of coping with his asthma in an easy-to-read narrative style. The frustrations of dealing…
