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Cuba’s Contribution to Combating COVID-19
In this blogpost, Helen Yaffe, author of, We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a…
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Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City
When last summer John Henderson published Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City, he little…
Mortuaries, Medicine and Money by Naomi Pfeffer
The existence of for-profit cadaver purveyors is no secret. Yet, it remains a largely invisible issue. Naomi Pfeffer’s…
Why Monoclonal Antibodies (Mabs) are the Future of Medicine
The Lock and Key of Medicine by Lara V. Marks is the first book to tell the extraordinary…
Method in Madness: Discovering Prions
Despite initial scepticism from peers and critics alike, neurologist and biochemist Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner has developed a greater…