Our NHS – 50 Years in 50 Books
Our NHS is an engaging, inclusive history of the NHS, exploring its surprising survival and the people who have kept it running. Andrew Seaton’s…
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75 years of Our NHS: an excerpt from Andrew Seaton’s new book
Andrew Seaton’s Our NHS, a History of Britain’s Best-Loved Institution explores the full 75-year history of the NHS, from foundation and modernisation to crisis…
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 realized how relevant his book would…
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 thought-provoking work documents the history, politics,…
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 spotlight on our exciting titles in…
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 ubiquitous textile. Blanc investigates industry practices…
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 yet unheralded history of monoclonal antibodies…
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 findings from the worlds of neuroscience…
Method in Madness: Discovering Prions
Despite initial scepticism from peers and critics alike, neurologist and biochemist Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner has developed a greater and deeper understanding of treating degenerative…
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 never visited South Korea before, I…