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Manuel Barcia, “The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade” (Yale UP, 2020)
Manuel Barcia
The Yellow Demon of Fever
Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade
Yale University Press, 2020

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network May 27, 2020 Alejandra Bronfman

As we now know, epidemics and pandemics are not new phenomena. In her new book The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the 19th-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade (Yale University Press, 2020), Manuel Barcia offers a striking rendition of the diseases that swept through the illegal slave trade Atlantic World. In... Read More
B. Earp and J. Savulescu, “Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Brian Earp and Julian Savulescu
Love Drugs
The Chemical Future of Relationships
Stanford University Press, 2020

New Books in Big IdeasNew Books in Drugs, Addiction and RecoveryNew Books in LawNew Books in MedicineNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network May 11, 2020 Carrie Figdor

Consider a couple with an infant (or two) whose lives have become so harried and difficult the marriage is falling apart. Would it be ethical for them to take oxytocin to help them renew their emotional bonds, or would this be an unethical evasion of the hard work that keeping... Read More
Howard Friedman, “Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life” (U California Press, 2020)
Howard Friedman
Ultimate Price
The Value We Place on Life
University of California Press, 2020

New Books in EconomicsNew Books in FinanceNew Books in LawNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network April 30, 2020 Howard Friedman

Howard Friedman‘s new book Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life (University of California Press, 2020) should be required reading for anyone sitting down to watch the evening news. The Covid-19 crisis is, unfortunately, a new broad-based instance in the valuation of human life. And I do mean value:... Read More
Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, “Stages: On Dying, Working, and Feeling” (Thick Press, 2020)
Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
Stages
On Dying, Working, and Feeling
Thick Press, 2020

New Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Performing ArtsNew Books in Science & Technology April 23, 2020 Toney Brown

Can care be enacted through art? Inside a cathedral, staff members from a nursing home work with an artist to perform a poetic text about caregiving, loss, and taking the time to feel one’s feelings. In the months leading up to the performance, the artist navigates her twenties—and art and... Read More
Lloyd B. Minor, “Discovering Precision Health” (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
Lloyd B. Minor
Discovering Precision Health
Predict, Prevent, and Cure to Advance Health and Well-Being
Wiley-Blackwell, 2020

New Books in MedicineNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network April 22, 2020 Collin Miller and Dr. Keith Mankin

Today’s guest is scientist, surgeon, and dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine, Dr. Lloyd B. Minor. Previously he served as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at The Johns Hopkins University. With more than 140 published articles and chapters, Dr. Minor is an expert in balance... Read More
Richard G. Tedeschi, “Posttraumatic Growth: Theory, Research and Applications” (Routledge, 2018)
Richard G. Tedeschi
Posttraumatic Growth
Theory, Research and Applications
Routledge, 2018

New Books in MedicineNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books NetworkVan Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel April 21, 2020 Renee Garfinkel

During this global pandemic, many of us will experience trauma, which the authors define as a severely stressful life-altering event.  A traumatic event is like an earthquake, shattering an individual’s coherent world-view the way an earthquake can shatter the foundations of buildings.  A traumatic event is undesirable in the extreme... Read More
Baptiste Brossard, “Forgetting Items: The Social Experience of Alzheimer’s Disease” (Indiana UP, 2019)
Baptiste Brossard
Forgetting Items
The Social Experience of Alzheimer’s Disease
Indiana University Press, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Sociology April 20, 2020 Krystina Millar

Alzheimer’s disease has not only profound medical consequences for the individual experiencing it but a life-changing impact on those around them. From the moment a person is suspected to be suffering from Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia, the interactions they encounter progressively change. Baptiste Brossard’s new book Forgetting Items:... Read More
Carlo Caduff, “The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger” (U California Press, 2015)
Carlo Caduff
The Pandemic Perhaps
Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger
University of California Press, 2015

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network April 16, 2020 Faizah Zakaria

Carlo Caduff’s The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger (University of California Press, 2015) is an ethnographic inquiry into pandemic anxieties in the mid-2000s when such an event was widely anticipated by experts. Examining how experts in the United States framed a catastrophe that has not... Read More

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