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
July 30, 2014
(Wired) – Casarett is enthusiastic about the emerging technologies that are allowing doctors to save patients who would have been a lost cause in the very recent past. But these technologies come at a cost, he writes. They may restore … Read More
July 25, 2014
(The Scotsman) – In the minds of many, eugenic policies defined as strategies aimed at positively influencing the genetic heritage of a community will always be associated with the abuses of Nazi Germany. What is little known, however, was the … Read More
June 27, 2014
(Nursing Times) – This jointly authored book is aimed squarely at undergraduate nurses in the UK and is a welcome addition to the small number of books targeted at this audience. The authors are experienced educators and clinicians in palliative … Read More
June 20, 2014
(The Times Higher Education) – Was birth control a feminist issue? For anyone who reads this book, the conclusion will be a resounding yes. But social movements are complex. The birth control campaign included socialists, neo-Malthusians and eugenicists, many of … Read More
June 20, 2014
(The Guardian) – Fantasies of human enhancement have a long history, from early myths about supernormal strength and eternal life to 20th-century comic superheroes: Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and their many emulators. While early attempts to achieve superpowers in real life – … Read More
June 17, 2014
(New York Times) – In a career that spanned more than five decades, from the 1950s into the 21st century, Dr. Phillip I. Lerner witnessed vast transformations in medicine. But as his son, Dr. Barron H. Lerner, writes in this … Read More
June 13, 2014
(New York Times) – “Cancer books suck,” says 16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster. But she has a favorite and so do I. Mine is the novel John Green wrote about her. With an allergy to cheesy sentiments resembling Holden Caulfield’s, Hazel … Read More
June 3, 2014
(ABC.Net.au) – JCU Professor of Nursing Linda Shields has released a book about nursing and midwifery during the Nazi era in WWII Germany. Nurses and Midwives in Nazi Germany: The “Euthanasia Programs” focuses on nursing ethics and explains the role of … Read More
May 27, 2014
(New Scientist) – ANTIBIOTICS have ended untold human misery by curing bacterial infections, yet we are losing these wonder drugs. New Scientist has reported on the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria for years. Missing Microbes is partly about that. But it … Read More
May 26, 2014
(Washington Post) – Is there a topic more divisive than race? If so, perhaps it’s the pairing of science and race. After all, recent generations have seen odious prejudices exploited under the guise of scientific legitimacy to justify discrimination, sterilization … Read More
May 19, 2014
(The Guardian) – As I discovered during the research for my book, Conceiving Masculinity: Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity, men are rendered invisible in our collective imagination when it comes to reproduction. When a woman can’t get pregnant, she assumes … Read More
May 15, 2014
(NPR) – Dr. Barron Lerner is a doctor and the son of a doctor. He grew up thinking his father was a wonderful, gifted and caring physician, which he was. But after Lerner started studying bioethics, he began questioning some … Read More
May 8, 2014
(Wired) – Until the past few decades, neuroscientists had one way to plumb the human brain: wait for disaster to strike people and, if the victims pulled through, see how their minds worked differently afterward. These poor men and women … Read More
April 29, 2014
(BBC) – Author Sarah Wise was watching the play Gas Light when she came up with the idea for her book, Inconvenient People. She was intrigued by the fact the audience immediately “got” the plot of a conniving husband trying … Read More
April 28, 2014
(Phys.org) – The emerging field of synthetic biology crosses the boundary between science and design, in order to design and manufacture biologically based parts, devices and systems that do not exist in the natural world, as well as the redesign … Read More
April 11, 2014
(The Times Higher Education) – This is a highly topical book, in view of the intense debates taking place in many countries about the possible legalisation of assisted suicide and euthanasia (for example in Canada and France) or the modification … Read More
March 26, 2014
(Salon) – Excerpted from “Villains, Scoundrels, and Rogue: Incredible True Tales of Mischief and Mayhem.” Growing up in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the early 1900s, young Carrie Buck impressed those she met as serious and self-possessed, someone whose quiet demeanor hinted at … Read More
March 21, 2014
(Times Higher Education) – Synthetic Aesthetics opens with an introduction to these ambitions from two leading lights of synthetic biology, Drew Endy and Alistair Elfick, and then examines them from a range of sceptical but stimulating viewpoints. We come to … Read More
March 20, 2014
(Fox News) – My new book, Changing the Way We Die, co-authored by Sheila Himmel, lifts hospice out of the shadows. We explore its compassionate, holistic approach to end-of-life care through the stories of real patients like Rusty Hammer, their … Read More
March 5, 2014
Craig Venter’s book Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life describes the completion of the first functioning organism with a completely synthetic genome and places this accomplishment within the context of … Read More
February 26, 2014
(Free ebooks) – Nanotechnology—the manipulation of matter on a near-atomic scale to produce new materials and devices—has the ability to transform many industries, from medicine to manufacturing, and the products they produce. By 2020, the National Science Foundation estimates, nanotechnology … Read More
February 21, 2014
(New York Times) – Mr. Divinigracia could easily have been the subject of one of the 54 stories in a new book, “Support for Alzheimer’s and Dementia Caregivers: The Unsung Heroes,†by Judith L. London. Dr. London is a psychologist … Read More
February 18, 2014
(Nursing Times) – Eric Lindner is a Hospice volunteer in US and this book charts his experiences in this role over the last four years via a series of carefully crafted and sensitively written vignettes. He has no background in … Read More
February 5, 2014
(Nanowerk News) – This book compiles multidisciplinary efforts of recent advancements in pharmacology, nanotechnology, genomics, informatics and therapeutics aiming to conceptualize the environment in research and clinical setting that creates the fertile ground for the practical utility of personalized medicine … Read More
