November 14, 2014
(New York Times) – But if the show had its flaws, the medical themes it raises are much the same as those I encounter as a physician: Are primary-care doctors more true to their profession than specialists? How bad is … 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
October 1, 2014
(The Wall Street Journal) – The first feature film based on the story of a South Korean scientist’s fraudulent stem cell research and the ensuing fallout in the early 2000s, “Whistle Blower,” centers on a dilemma: “Which should take priority: truth or the national interest?” The title character … Read More
September 29, 2014
(Korea JoongAng Daily) – So the stakes were set high for Yim Soon-rye’s latest film “Whistle Blower,” inspired by the infamous Hwang Woo-suk scandal that shook the nation in 2005 when it was discovered that the scientist’s stem cell research … 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 20, 2014
(The Telegraph) – Obvious Child is being described as an ‘abortion comedy’. It tells the story of 20-something Donna, who works in a bookshop and does stand-up comedy in her spare time. When she falls pregnant after a one-night stand … Read More
August 13, 2014
(Washington Post) – In “The Genius of Marian,” documentary filmmaker Banker White tells the story of his mother, and her struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. The film, which airs nationally for the first time on PBS’s POV on Sept. 8, works … Read More
August 13, 2014
(The Toronto Star) – Canada’s health system made Rama Rau open her eyes to ugly secrets in her native India, prompting her to ask her women friends why so many had scars on their sides. And it led to the … 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
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
