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Stephan Bullard, “A Day-by-Day Chronicle of the 2013-2016 Ebola Outbreak” (Springer, 2018)
Stephen G. Bullard
A Day-by-Day Chronicle of the 2013-2016 Ebola Outbreak

Springer, 2018

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network June 7, 2019 Michael F. Robinson

Why did Ebola, a virus so deadly that it killed or immobilized its victims within days, have time to become a full-blown epidemic? That’s what happened in 2013 when the virus, already well-known to virologists and epidemiologists, broke out in West Africa, infecting twenty-eight thousand people and killing eleven thousand.... Read More
Erika Dyck, “Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond” (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2018)
Erika Dyck
Psychedelic Prophets
The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond
McGill-Queens University Press, 2018

New Books in BiographyNew Books in Drugs, Addiction and RecoveryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network May 29, 2019 Lucas Richert

Today I talked with historian Erika Dyck about Aldous Huxley, Humphry Osmond and their correspondence over a ten year period. Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018) is a collection of letters which were carefully curated by Erika and Cynthia Carson Bisbee, Paul... Read More
Eric Topol, “Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again” (Basic Books, 2019)
Eric Topol
Deep Medicine
How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
Basic Books, 2019

New Books in MedicineNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in TechnologyNew Books Network May 7, 2019 Jeremy Corr

Medicine has lost its humanity. Doctors no longer have the time to make personal connections with their patients. In his new book Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again (Basic Books, 2019), Eric Topol explores how AI can help to fix many of the issues medicine is... Read More
Jessica A. J. Rich, “State-Sponsored Activism: Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jessica A. J. Rich
State-Sponsored Activism
Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil
Cambridge University Press, 2019

New Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network May 3, 2019 Lilly Goren

Jessica Rich’s new book, State-Sponsored Activism: Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 2019) is a fascinating and important examination of civil-state relations, social movements, and bureaucracies all centering around AIDS/HIV policy as the nexus of analysis. With AIDS/HIV as the center of the analysis, Rich explores... Read More
Jonathan Marks, “The Perils of Partnership: Industry Influence, Institutional Integrity, and Public Health” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jonathan H. Marks
The Perils of Partnership
Industry Influence, Institutional Integrity, and Public Health
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in LawNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network May 2, 2019 Stephen Pimpare

It is an article of faith in many circles that the most effective and efficient way to solve a broad range of local and national problems is through public-private partnerships. What’s not to like? Especially in a climate in which people think resources are scarce, seeking out help from corporate... Read More
Nancy Tomes, “Remaking the American Patient” (UNC Press, 2016)
Nancy Tomes
Remaking the American Patient
How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers
University of North Carolina Press, 2016

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in HistoryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network April 25, 2019 Stephen Colbrook

In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular–and largely unexamined–idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) explores... Read More
James L. A. Webb, “The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
James L. A. Webb
The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa

Cambridge University Press, 2016

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew 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 April 24, 2019 Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia

It is estimated that malaria kills between 650,000 to 1.2 million people every year; experts believe that nearly 90 percent of these deaths occur in Africa. In The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa (Reprint edition; Cambridge University Press, 2016), James L. A. Webb explains the disproportionate impact that... Read More