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…
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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…
Spring Reading at Yale: Science Spotlight
With winter firmly behind us, we thought we’d take a stroll through our Yale spring reading favourites, with a…
Consumers and the Path to Safely-Produced Products by Paul Blanc
Paul Blanc sheds lights on the environmental and public health hazards of producing “fake silk”, viscose rayon, a…
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…
Intelligence in the Flesh: An Interview with Guy Claxton
Intelligence in the Flesh is the provocative new publication from Guy Claxton. The book draws on the latest…
Method in Madness: Discovering Prions
Despite initial scepticism from peers and critics alike, neurologist and biochemist Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner has developed a greater…
Mark Harrison, author of ‘Contagion’, explores the complex and deep-seated anxieties which often accompany trade between nations
In the summer of 2008 I visited Seoul to give lectures at a symposium on medical humanities. Having…