May 16, 2016
(The Wall Street Journal) – “The Gene” is an ambitious attempt to explain how we arrived at this point. Its author, Siddhartha Mukherjee, is a cancer researcher who wrote a fine book on the topic, “The Emperor of All Maladies” … Read More
May 12, 2016
(Nature) – In 2011, Siddhartha Mukherjee won a Pulitzer prize for The Emperor of All Maladies (Scribner, 2010), which intertwined science and his own experience as an oncologist. In The Gene, Mukherjee uses a personal approach to describe our understanding … Read More
April 7, 2016
(Nature) – In The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction, lawyer and bioethicist Henry Greely does an enviable job of explaining the scientific underpinnings and legal regulation of current reproductive and genetic technologies. The central focus of … Read More
April 5, 2016
(New York Magazine) – About one in ten couples have trouble conceiving, according to most estimates, and now, thousands of them are leaving the United States to get pregnant on trips known as “IVF holidays.” The Czech Republic is an … Read More
April 1, 2016
(IMTJ) – Hungary claims to be the European capital of dental tourism, although there are no reliable figures to back that claim. The story of how Hungary became Europe’s dental chair is a case study in medical tourism. Investigative journalist … Read More
March 31, 2016
(Medical Xpress) – A University of Texas at Arlington researcher has found that although the majority of today’s surrogates are compensated for their services, many of the women are reluctant to think of themselves as workers and outsiders often misunderstand … Read More
March 9, 2016
(Slate) – Our interactions with the not-quite-dead is where our institutional and cultural limitations are revealed most clearly: for instance, the mixed blessing of medical advancements that can keep the virtually dead breathing, and our systemic bias toward doing something, … Read More
March 3, 2016
(The Atlantic) – “Many of us take for granted that we live in an age of medicine where, to put it quite simply, we know what we are doing,” writes Steven Hatch in his new book Snowball in a Blizzard: … Read More
February 25, 2016
(Nature) – Adam Cohen’s Imbeciles relates a key chapter in this story, the 1927 US Supreme Court case known as Buck v. Bell. The case began in September 1924, when Albert Priddy, head of the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics … Read More
February 19, 2016
(Washington Post) – Meanwhile, interested parties should prepare by reading a gripping new book about one of the court’s darkest moments. “Imbeciles” is the arch title that lawyer-journalist Adam Cohen has given his narrative of Buck v. Bell, the 1927 … Read More
February 2, 2016
(The Washington Post) – Hungary’s post-communist elite, led by a flamboyant, well-connected oral surgeon, has developed a sector of skilled dentists. By charging bargain prices, they have created an internationally marketable product. The national government even includes a Medical Tourism … Read More
January 12, 2016
(Eurekalert) – “There is more than one ‘clean hands’ problem in health care work,” writes Nancy Berlinger, a Hastings Center research scholar and a specialist in health care ethics, at the opening of her new book, Are Workarounds Ethical? Managing … Read More
December 28, 2015
(Eurekalert) – North Americans travel to Europe for many reasons, including business, vacation or trips to learn more about their family heritage. New research from The University of Texas at Arlington shows that a growing number of North Americans are … Read More
October 20, 2015
(Cornell) – Through interviews with 53 families of people with brain injuries identified as in a minimally conscious state — or having partial conscious responsiveness or awareness to the world around them — Dr. Fins reveals that patients are often … Read More
October 19, 2015
(Nature) – In the late nineteenth century, the United States was awash with the racist term ‘yellow peril’. Fears spread that Chinese immigrants working in the country’s mines and building its railways would seize more jobs from the citizenry. Today, … Read More
September 30, 2015
(NPR) – Brown is the author of The Shift, which follows four patients during the course of a 12-hour shift in a hospital cancer ward. A former oncology nurse, Brown now provides patients with in-home, end-of-life care. Talking — and … Read More
September 17, 2015
(News-Medical) – World Scientific’s latest book, Stem Cell Battles: Proposition 71 and Beyond How Ordinary People Can Fight Back against the Crushing Burden of Chronic Disease — with a Posthumous Foreword by Christopher Reeve, authored by Fremont author Don C. … Read More
August 28, 2015
(The Guardian) – Do a quick survey of recent stories, for example, and you will find research that claims “intelligence, creativity and bipolar disorder may share underlying genetics” and a much-reported story that found that Holocaust survivors may have passed … Read More
August 24, 2015
(The New York Times) – We may not need to follow Musk’s call for regulation, but we probably need to assess the state of artificial intelligence and robotics, a task that John Markoff describes as looking for “common ground between … Read More
June 22, 2015
(Nursing Times) – This is an excellent read for nurses who care for patients at the palliative stage of their illness and those who are at the end of their life. It is not a book for nurses who need … Read More
June 4, 2015
(Inside Higher Ed) – Many scholars complain that institutional review boards unreasonably delay or block studies involving human research subjects. A new book, The Censor’s Hand: The Misregulation of Human-Subject Research (MIT Press), doesn’t see IRBs as fixable, but as … Read More
June 3, 2015
(BBC) – When she penned comedies like Bhaji on the Beach and Goodness Gracious Me, Meera Syal looked to her own family’s experiences to tell stories about the lives of Asian women. But it was a chance viewing of a … Read More
May 13, 2015
(Bloomberg) – The Nazis timed concentration camp inmates as they struggled in the snow to see how long humans could endure the cold. Not much later, in Macon County, Alabama, black men with syphilis were deprived of penicillin when it … Read More
April 17, 2015
(Times Higher Education) – Bioethics is in an age of renaissance. In this thoughtful consideration of an important issue in the field, Katrien Devolder embraces the challenge of darting between disciplines to offer articulate and lively insight into the workings … Read More
March 19, 2015
(The Guardian) – “In its effects I believe that the pill ranks in importance with the discovery of fire,” wrote the British-American anthropologist Ashley Montagu in 1969, excited that the invention was already upturning “age-old beliefs, practices and institutions”. The … Read More
