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“An altogether admirable study”—Literary Review “Very readable ... compelling”—Englewood Review of Books “A well-written work, stylistically speaking: very clear and honest”—Kroniek (Belgium) “Fascinating ... fresh and nuanced”—Jude V. Nixon, Salem State University “Provocative ... well worth the read”—Bernard Lightman, York University “Stimulating”—Keith Thomson, author of Before Darwin “The charm of The Age of Doubt is that it returns us to [an age] when the absence of God was a new idea”— Chicago Reader Recent interviews: ABC News, NBC News, MSNBC, NPR, BBC News Magazine, Time Magazine, and The Sun Magazine. |
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Winner of the Prescrire Prize for Medical Writing (France, 2010). Translated into French, Spanish, Danish, Korean, and Japanese. “Excellent”—New York Observer “Splendid, compelling”—The Lancet “Reasoned and convincing”—Le Monde “Well-researched, controversial”—New York Times Book Review “Well-written and incendiary”—Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences “Christopher Lane’s polemical Shyness features the manipulations that promoted social anxiety disorder to a national emergency”—New York Review of Books “Overall, Lane's scholarly account of this saga ensures that if you're not already concerned about the over-medicalization of our mental lives, you will be”—BBC Focus
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