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January 18, 2021

The Grisly Trials That Gave Poison to Prisoners

(Nature) – It was a time of contagion and quacks. A Machiavellian power-broker keen to protect his position defied tradition to sponsor controlled experiments on the most marginalized of people. It was 1524. The Italian surgeon Gregorio Caravita offered Pope … Read More

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May 28, 2020

Data and Genetic Privacy Join Proposed Privileges for Nonhumans, Robots, and Nature

(Science) – The Coming Good Society offers a cursory overview of the state of human rights in an age of emerging technologies. More accessible narrative than academic treatise, this enjoyable read examines how changing norms create opportunities to expand the … Read More

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May 25, 2020

Why Does Medicine Treat Women Like Men?

(The Guardian) – McGregor has set this out in her new book Sex Matters. It’s a wake-up call, a cry for action, a frightening and fascinating read. The takeaway message is that women’s bodies are different to men’s from cellular … Read More

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April 15, 2020

Stem Cell Therapies Slowly Gain Traction as Viable Treatments for Brain Disorders

(Science) – Jack Price’s engaging book The Future of Brain Repair details past, present, and future attempts to address Cajal’s formidable challenge. In so doing, it provides a vibrant and compelling guide to the important and rapidly evolving fields of stem cell–based … Read More

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January 16, 2020

Your Chemical Romance

(The Atlantic) – The authors of the new book Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships really, really want readers to know they have not written a book promoting love potions—drugs that will hypnotize, brainwash, or otherwise ensnare people into … Read More

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December 27, 2019

An Undercover Journey into the Heart of Madness

(Undark) – The moment her illness was deemed neurological, ”as in physical, in the body, real,” rather than psychiatric, “in the mind and therefore somehow less real,” the quality of her care drastically improved, Cahalan writes in her new book, … Read More

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December 23, 2019

Facebook’s Divisive Algorithms Traced Back to Francis Galton’s 1800s Eugenic Theory

(Australian Broadcasting Co) – When we talk about Charles Darwin, it is rarely in the same breath that we discuss the modern-day internet algorithms which are dividing society with selective information. But according to the author of a book examining … Read More

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December 13, 2019

Can Surrogacy Remake the World?

(The New Yorker) – In a new book, “Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against the Family,” the author Sophie Lewis makes a forceful argument for legalization. Lewis takes little interest in the parents. It’s the surrogates who concern her. Regulation, she … Read More

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November 12, 2019

Patient Care Is Wrenching: A Psychiatrist, a Nurse and a Doctor Bare All

(New York Times) – Anyone who has been a caregiver will relate to the unending grind of Joan’s decline, to Kleinman’s exhaustion and to his efforts to keep going. And he’s one of the lucky ones: He has the financial … Read More

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October 29, 2019

On the Troubling Trail of Psychology’s Pseudopatient Stunt

(Nature) – Rosenhan’s study had far-reaching and much-needed effects on psychiatric care in the United States and elsewhere. By the 1980s, most psychology textbooks were quoting it. It also influenced society more widely, and not always positively: in the law … Read More

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