Author Description

The History of the Peanut Allergy Epidemic by Heather Fraser is a must-read for every parent, teacher, and health professional. This far-reaching history of the current epidemic of peanut allergy provides compelling answers to why this condition develops primarily in children and how its prevalence has ballooned to over 4 million people in the US alone. Heather Fraser, an historian and mother of a peanut allergy child, pinpoints the precise moment of this allergy's appearance and describes the perfect storm of social, medical, political and economic factors from which it has grown. With an international overview-more than sixteen geographical locations are analyzed-and thirty pages of endnotes and appendices, Fraser has delivered a meticulously documented and illuminating account of a growing epidemic. Heather Fraser, MA, BA, B.Ed is a Toronto-based writer, a student of alternative medicine, and the mother of a child who has a peanut allergy.