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January 27, 2023

Book Review: Behind Wall Street’s Huge Gamble on Cancer Drugs

(Undark) – In 2011, Ahmed Hamdy, a clinical researcher, sat in a parking lot in Sunnyvale, California. On his mind: a brand-new anti-cancer drug that, true to Silicon Valley parlance, seemed poised to change the world. Only Hamdy had just … Read More

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November 18, 2022

Book Review: The Magic and Mystery of Human Cells

(Undark) – In his latest book, the oncologist and acclaimed writer Siddhartha Mukherjee focuses his narrative microscope on the cell, the elementary building block from which complex systems and life itself emerge. It is the coordination of cells that allow … Read More

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October 5, 2022

Understanding the New Abnormal

(First Things) – And Aaron Kheriaty’s forthcoming book, The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State (to be released November 1), is Exhibit A. Every few years a book comes along like Patrick Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed or Carl … Read More

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September 19, 2022

Book Review: Exploring the Root of What Ails Us

(Undark) – Now, Maté is once again attempting to shift the conversation, this time about health at large, through a new book, “The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture,” which he co-wrote with his son, … Read More

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September 14, 2022

What Do We Really Know About Mental Illness?

(The New Yorker) – When Rachel Aviv was six years old, she stopped eating. Shortly after, she was hospitalized with anorexia. Her doctors were flummoxed. They’d never seen a child so young develop the eating disorder, yet there she was. … Read More

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August 2, 2022

Book Review: A Global History of the Black Death

(Undark) – James Belich’s new book, “The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe,” shows the depth and longevity of the controversy over the sources and impacts of an era-defining scourge. Belich, an Oxford University … Read More

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July 8, 2022

Book Review: The Limits of Drug-Based Psychiatry

(Undark) – As Bergner, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, emphasizes in his moving narrative, the chief claim contained in that bestseller of yesteryear — that mental illnesses are diseases for which there exist chemical cures — … Read More

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June 3, 2022

Book Review: Behind the Quest for Eternal Life

(Undark) – At first glance, one might assume that Peter Ward’s “The Price of Immortality: The Race to Live Forever” is yet another book promising secrets to regain youth, restore health, and outlive those who lack the knowledge or willpower … Read More

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June 2, 2022

Health Care Under Fire

(New York Review of Books) – Systematic attacks on hospitals amplify the harm of war and increase suffering. The effects reverberate widely, spreading terror and driving people to flee. This exemplifies the weaponization of health care—the use of people’s need … Read More

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May 31, 2022

Chronic Pain–Why Science Has Scant Succour for One in Five People

(Nature) – As a medical student in Pakistan, Haider Warraich loved to go to the gym. One day, while bench pressing, he dropped a 90-kilogram weight on himself. His back injury ended his plans to become a surgeon and almost … Read More

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