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Maté is a Canadian physician, Order of Canada recipient, and author of five books published in close to forty languages. He has spent the better part of three decades arguing that Western medicine built its understanding of illness on a foundation with a significant crack running through it.

My daughter had been planning this day for the better part of a year. The pony bug had arrived in our household the way pony bugs tend to — quietly, then all at once — but this one came with a uniquely, gloriously specific fixation: she wanted to ride an Icelandic horse. Not just any horse. An “Icelandic” horse.

The sign at the entrance to the Roman Baths in Bath asks visitors to refrain from touching the water.

Welcome to dichotomous thinking — the cheerful little tyrant living rent-free in your head, sorting the world into Good and Bad, Success and Failure, Friend and Foe, with the brisk certainty of a customs officer at three in the morning.