First published in the United States by W.W.Norton and Company, on March 1 1997, Guns, Germs and Steel was initially subtitled ‘The Fates of Human Societies.’ Within a few months, this subtitle had ...

Clark, now age 19, has long ago forgiven, if not forgotten, my doctor humor. He was recently home on his college break when I received for review Jessica Snyder Sachs’ Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health ...