New Books in Medicine
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Matt Oram, "The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: ...
Are we in the midst of a psychedelic renaissance?
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Sharra L. Vostral, "Toxic Shock: A Social Histo...
In 1978, doctors in Denver, Colorado observed several healthy children who suddenly and mysteriously developed a serious, life-threatening illness with no visible source...
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Okezi Otovo, "Progressive Mothers, Better Babie...
Otovo explores the intersecting histories of race, gender, and class in modern Brazil...
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Donna Dickenson, "Me Medicine vs. We Medicine: ...
Personalized healthcare―or what the award-winning author Donna Dickenson calls "Me Medicine"―is radically transforming our longstanding "one-size-fits-all" model...
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Celeste Watkins-Hayes, "Remaking a Life: How Wo...
How do women -- especially poor and low-income women with histories of childhood sexual trauma and drug addiction -- respond to and deal with an HIV/AIDS diagnosis?
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Vanessa Heggie, "Higher and Colder: A History o...
Heggie talks about the history of biomedical research in extreme environments...
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Alex Broadbent, "Philosophy of Medicine" (Oxfor...
Philosophy of medicine itself has evolved in response to developments in the philosophy of science, especially with regard to epistemology, positioning it to make contributions that are medically useful...
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Katie Batza, "Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics ...
Katie Batza demonstrates in this path-breaking book, there was already a well-developed network of gay-health clinics in American cities when the epidemic struck, and these clinics served as the first responders to the disease...
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Robin Scheffler, “A Contagious Cause: The Ameri...
Could cancer be a contagious disease? Although this possibility might seem surprising to many of us, it has a long history...
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Paul Ramírez, "Enlightened Immunity: Mexico’s E...
Ramirez explores how laypeople impacted the new medical techniques and technologies implemented by the imperial state in the final decades of Spanish rule in colonial Mexico...
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Pauline W. Chen, "Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Refle...
Dr. Pauline Chen shares her experiences as a medical student and transplant surgeon and how they’ve shaped the way she practices medicine.
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Nara Milanich, "Paternity: The Elusive Quest fo...
Milanich explains how fatherhood, long believed to be impossible to know with certainty, became a biological “fact” that could be ascertained with scientific testing...
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Stephan Bullard, "A Day-by-Day Chronicle of the...
Why did Ebola, a virus so deadly that it killed or immobilized its victims within days, have time to become a full-blown epidemic?
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Erika Dyck, "Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters ...
Erika recounts the special relationship between two intellectual juggernauts, Huxley and Osmond, and their discussions about drugs, addiction, and death and dying...
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James Crossland, "War, Law and Humanity: The Ca...
Crossland describes the emergence of various movements in the second half of the 19th. century...
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David Courtwright, "The Age of Addiction: How B...
We are living in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and binge eating to pornography and opioid abuse...
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Eric Topol, "Deep Medicine: How Artificial Inte...
Eric Topol explores how AI can help to fix many of the issues medicine is facing today...
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Michael A. Cohen, "Clear and Present Safety: Th...
We are fed a steady stream of doom and gloom—terrorist attacks, erosion of democracy, robots taking our jobs...
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Nancy Tomes, "Remaking the American Patient" (U...
Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it...
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James L. A. Webb, "The Long Struggle against Ma...
It is estimated that malaria kills between 650,000 to 1.2 million Africans every year; experts believe that nearly 90 percent of these deaths occur in Africa...
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Kate Brown, "Manuel for Survival: A Chernobyl G...
By digging into recently opened regional archives, conducting dozens of interviews, and visiting sites across Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, Brown sought to understand the extent of the damage from the 1986 explosion of Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4.
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Lukas Engelmann, "Mapping AIDS: Visual Historie...
What role do visual media play in establishing a medical phenomenon?
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Robert A. Voeks, "The Ethnobotany of Eden: Reth...
Jungle medicine: it's everywhere, from chia seeds to ginseng tea to CBD oil..
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Vivian Percy, "Saving Jenny: Rescuing Our Youth...
Vivian Percy's new book is the narration of a mother and daughter’s long painful journey from tragedy, through opioid addiction, toward redemption...
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
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