WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT / European library

No. 1090

*** PATRICE HALIMI: La grande détox. Comment éviter les poisons du quotidien ? Calmann-Lévy (31 rue de Fleurus, F-75006 Paris. Tel: [phone] - fax: [phone] - Internet: www.calmann-levy.fr). 2015, 213 pp. €17. ISBN 978-2-7021-5701-5.

There are certain books that send shivers down your spine. Dr Patrice Halimi is a paediatric surgeon in orthopaedics and was not originally a dyed in the wool ecologist. Nonetheless, placed in an ideal position to observe how things are, he was...