March 6, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – In a new book published this week, Murderous Contagion, the historian of medicine Mary Dobson examines 30 of the biggest killers in the history of humankind, from scourges like the Black Death of the 14th century, to … Read More
February 10, 2015
(The Guardian) – Pincus, Rock, and two remarkable women – the birth control pioneers Margaret Sanger and Katharine McCormick – are at the heart of this brilliant book by American journalist Jonathan Eig. It opens with a meeting in New … Read More
January 6, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – Infectious diseases are one of the many health issues that worry the organizers of mass gatherings, such as the Hajj and the World Cup. Geographers’ tools of the trade can help event organizers to better plan, monitor … Read More
December 19, 2014
(WAMC) – The Massachusetts Medical Society has published a guidebook for healthcare providers on how to identify, assess and respond to victims of human trafficking. The 44-page guidebook is the result of a three-year research collaboration between Massachusetts General Hospital … Read More
December 12, 2014
(Phys.org) – Future technology will be more intelligent and more living than most people can imagine today. We need clear guidelines on how to implement and use technology, or else citizens will lose their rights to their identity and their … Read More
December 5, 2014
(Times Higher Education) – What has led to “adversarial relationships” between social scientists and the regulatory regimes they operate within – and how can they be made more harmonious? These are key themes in Research Ethics and Integrity for Social … Read More
December 2, 2014
(Washington Post) – Ten years ago, journalist Karen Masterson was taking a course on making effective use of the records at the National Archives in College Park. For an assignment, she was searching for records on World War II-era blood … Read More
December 1, 2014
(Forbes) – You don’t often hear of books dedicated to patient advocacy in the stem cell field. But Inevitable Collision, by Tory Williams, may inspire more. Williams, at one time a school teacher, single mother, and aspiring novelist, has pledged to … Read More
November 24, 2014
(The Guardian) – As Sue Armstrong points out at the beginning of her book, while we may naively wonder why so many people get cancer, researchers are asking “Why so few?”. Every time a cell divides – skin and digestive-tract … Read More
November 17, 2014
(Washington Post) – Despite its deceptively bland title, “Internal Medicine,” Terrence Holt’s new collection of stories, captures the feelings of a young doctor’s three-year hospital residency — the powerlessness, the exhaustion, the chaotic and seemingly endless shifts, and above all, … Read More
November 3, 2014
(The Guardian) – In Being Mortal, the surgeon and New Yorker writer Atul Gawande recalls being asked the same question and not really understanding it: doctors, he explains, have medicalised old age to such an extent that they no longer … Read More
October 27, 2014
(The Epoch Times) – U.S. author Ethan Gutmann’s new book, The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China’s Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem, is a riveting inside account of China’s booming organ transplant business and gives a glimpse into the … Read More
October 22, 2014
(Vox) – Gawande, a cancer surgeon and New Yorker author, wanted to talk about dying. In fact, he wants everyone to talk about dying. He’s even written a book, “Being Mortal,” to get the conversation going. The inspiration, Gawande, says, … Read More
October 21, 2014
(New York Times) – When the Ebola outbreak in West Africa began to escalate a few months ago, the writer Richard Preston was working on a children’s fantasy novel. He dropped that and called David Remnick, the editor of The … Read More
October 16, 2014
(Phys.org) – Women with chronic medical conditions can be at higher risk for complications during pregnancy and therefore require specialized preconception and contraceptive care and counseling. However, many medical providers are hesitant to prescribe contraception to these women due to … Read More
October 14, 2014
(The Epoch Times) – “My investigative nose got going,” says Gutmann, who began writing about Falun Gong in 2002, three years after the Chinese regime launched a large-scale campaign of persecution against those who practice the spiritual discipline. He thus … Read More
October 8, 2014
(NBC News) – Tens of thousands of mental patients and troops unknowingly became malaria test subjects during the 1940s — part of a secret federal rush to cure a dread disease and win a world war, according to a book … Read More
October 3, 2014
(The Economist) – In this eloquent, moving book Atul Gawande, a general surgeon and author of other thoughtful works on the doctor’s trade, explains how and why modern medicine has turned the end of life into something so horrible. “Over … Read More
September 17, 2014
(Nature) – Is race biologically real? A clutch of books published this year argue the question. All miss the point. Michael Yudell’s Race Unmasked and Robert Sussman’s The Myth of Race can be read as inadvertent retorts to former New … Read More
September 11, 2014
(IMTJ) – November will see the launch of a major new book on medical tourism from a US lawyer who divides the medical tourism community between those who believe he raises important points, and others who believe he is “bad … Read More
September 11, 2014
(USA Today) – An elderly man known as The Giver retains the memory of the “old world” and must pass it to a chosen Receiver, a boy named Jonas. Coming out of his allegorical cave with newfound knowledge of reality, … Read More
September 10, 2014
(New York Times) – Sandeep Jauhar’s new memoir, “Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician,” tells the story of two midlife crises: the author’s own, and that of modern American medicine, now in about its fourth decade under managed care. … Read More
August 29, 2014
(New Indian Express) – And now, she has released her latest book Baby Makers: The Story of Indian Surrogacy, tracing the role surrogacy plays, evolving from being a secretive and socially unacceptable procedure to becoming a multi-million dollar industry today. … Read More
August 11, 2014
(The Economist) – Mr Bostrom is, sensibly, not interested in trying to predict exactly when such successes will translate into a machine that is generally intelligent—able to compete with, or surpass, humans in all mental tasks, from composing sonatas to … Read More
August 6, 2014
(The Guardian) – It takes courage to self-publish one’s first novel at the age of 52. It takes a certain arrogance to write it entirely in the second-person present tense; though whatever your opinion of Al Brookes’s central character, Claire, … Read More
