Richard Horton

Richard Horton is a physician. He edits The Lancet, a weekly medical journal based in London and New York. He is also a visiting professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

From the Review

March 6, 2008: Cancer: Malignant Maneuvers

The Secret History of the War on Cancer by Devra Davis

June 14, 2007: The Palestinian Medical Crisis: An Exchange

May 31, 2007: What's Wrong with Doctors

How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman

March 15, 2007: Palestinians: The Crisis in Medical Care

September 23, 2004: AIDS: The Elusive Vaccine

March 25, 2004: 'The Fool of Pest': An Exchange

March 11, 2004: The Dawn of McScience

Science in the Private Interest: Has the Lure of Profits Corrupted Biomedical Research? by Sheldon Krimsky

February 26, 2004: The Fool of Pest

The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis by Sherwin B. Nuland

August 9, 2001: The Plagues Are Flying

Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe by Andrew Spielman and Michael D'Antonio

May 17, 2001: Thalidomide Comes Back

Dark Remedy: The Impact of Thalidomide and Its Revival as a Vital Medicine Trent Stephens and Rock Brynner

April 12, 2001: 'Death with Dignity' (letter)

March 29, 2001: What Doctors Don't Know (letter)

November 2, 2000: How Sick Is Modern Medicine?

The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine by James Le Fanu M.D.

August 10, 2000: In the Danger Zone

Intensive Care: A Doctor's Journal by John F. Murray

May 25, 2000: An Autopsy of Dr. Osler

William Osler: A Life in Medicine by Michael Bliss

October 31, 1996: Review of a Review (letter)

September 19, 1996: 'The AIDS Heresy': Another Exchange

August 8, 1996: 'The AIDS Heresy': An Exchange

May 23, 1996: Truth and Heresy About AIDS

Inventing the AIDS Virus by Peter H. Duesberg

Infectious AIDS: Have We Been Misled? by Peter H. Duesberg

AIDS: Virus- or Drug Induced? edited by Peter H. Duesberg

November 2, 1995: Genes and Sexuality: An Exchange

August 10, 1995: The Global Threat (letter)

July 13, 1995: Is Homosexuality Inherited?

The Sexual Brain by Simon LeVay

The Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene and the Biology of Behavior by Dean Hamer, by Peter Copeland

April 6, 1995: Infection: The Global Threat

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston