
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…
When last summer John Henderson published Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City, he little…
The existence of for-profit cadaver purveyors is no secret. Yet, it remains a largely invisible issue. Naomi Pfeffer’s…
With winter firmly behind us, we thought we’d take a stroll through our Yale spring reading favourites, with a…
Paul Blanc sheds lights on the environmental and public health hazards of producing “fake silk”, viscose rayon, a…
The Lock and Key of Medicine by Lara V. Marks is the first book to tell the extraordinary…
Intelligence in the Flesh is the provocative new publication from Guy Claxton. The book draws on the latest…
Despite initial scepticism from peers and critics alike, neurologist and biochemist Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner has developed a greater…
In the summer of 2008 I visited Seoul to give lectures at a symposium on medical humanities. Having…