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Nancy D. Campbell, “OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose” (MIT Press, 2020)
Nancy D. Campbell
OD
Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose
MIT Press, 2020

New Books in Drugs, Addiction and RecoveryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in TechnologyNew Books Network January 24, 2020 Dorian Deshauer

For years, drug overdose was unmentionable in polite society. OD was understood to be something that took place in dark alleys―an ugly death awaiting social deviants―neither scientifically nor clinically interesting. But over the last several years, overdose prevention has become the unlikely object of a social movement, powered by the... Read More
Christina Adams, “Camel Crazy” (New World Library, 2019)
Christina Adams
Camel Crazy
A Quest for Miracles in the Mysterious World of Camels
New World Library, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in MedicineNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & Technology January 23, 2020 Eric LeMay

Today I’m speaking with author Christina Adams, and Adams has something of a surprising muse: camels. That’s right, camels. One hump, two humps, crossing the Egyptian desert or the Siberian tundra. Adams’ muse is surprising, because she lives, like many of us, in North America—Orange County, California, to be exact.... Read More
Nicci Gerrard, “The Last Ocean: A Journey Through Memory and Forgetting” (Penguin, 2019)
Nicci Gerrard
The Last Ocean
A Journey Through Memory and Forgetting
Penguin, 2019

New Books in MedicineNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network January 22, 2020 Richard Davies and Jim Meigs

Dementia provokes profound moral questions about our society and the meaning of life itself. How much are we connected to one another? In what ways are we distant and separated? What does it mean to have a self? How can we offer dignity to those who suffer from Alzheimer’s and... Read More
Jessica Lynne Pearson, “The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Jessica Lynne Pearson
The Colonial Politics of Global Health
France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa
Harvard University Press, 2018

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in World Affairs January 15, 2020 Dexter Fergie

International organizations throw up several obstacles—their immense scale, their dry bureaucratic language—to the historian trying to piece together their past. In her book, The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa (Harvard University Press, 2018), Jessica Lynne Pearson steers clear of these obstacles and... Read More
Rachel Louise Moran, “Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique” (U Penn Press, 2018)
Rachel Louise Moran
Governing Bodies
American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network January 14, 2020 Patricia Martins Marcos

How did the modern, American body come into being? According to Rachel Louise Moran this is a story to be told through the lens of the advisory state. In her book, Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), she tracks the... Read More
Joe Miller, “US of AA: How the Twelve Steps Hijacked the Science of Alcoholism” (Chicago Review Press, 2019)
Joe Miller
US of AA
How the Twelve Steps Hijacked the Science of Alcoholism
Chicago Review Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Drugs, Addiction and RecoveryNew Books in HistoryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network January 7, 2020 Emily Dufton

In the aftermath of Prohibition, America’s top scientists joined forces with members of a new group, called Alcoholics Anonymous, and put their clout behind a campaign to convince the nation that alcoholism was a disease rather than a moral failing. Their campaign spanned decades, and from it grew a multimillion-dollar... Read More
Babette Becker, “I Should Have Been Music” (Page Publishing, 2018)
Babette Becker
I Should Have Been Music

Page Publishing, 2018

New Books in BiographyNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network December 18, 2019 Christopher Russell

Dr. Babette Becker’s memoir I Should Have Been Music (Page Publishing, 2018) recounts her experience as a patient in four different mental hospitals from 1957 to 1960. It was a time when little was known about mental illness, except the shame and horror of it, and nothing was known about... Read More
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