P.D. Medawar (1915–1987) was a British biologist whose research was fundamental to the development of tissue and organ transplants. Along with Frank Macfarlane Burnet, he was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Foreshadowings
April 1, 1982
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Calling Dr. Cooper
January 21, 1982
The Vital Probe: My Life as a Brain Surgeon by I.S. Cooper
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Stretch Genes
July 16, 1981
Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process
by Charles J. Lumsden, by Edward O. Wilson
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Gould Was Right
March 19, 1981
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Back to Evolution
February 19, 1981
The Panda’s Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology edited by Ernst Mayr, edited by William Provine
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Comet With a Cold
October 23, 1980
Diseases from Space by Fred Hoyle, by Chandra Wickramasinghe
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Strong Medicine
July 17, 1980
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In Defense of Doctors
May 15, 1980
The Role of Medicine by Thomas McKeown
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Does Mind Matter?
November 8, 1979
The Self and Its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism by Karl R. Popper, by John C. Eccles
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Fear and DNA
October 27, 1977
Playing God: Genetic Engineering and the Manipulation of Life by June Goodfield
Biohazard by Michael Rogers
The Ultimate Experiment: Man-made Evolution by Nicholas Wade
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Cancer
September 15, 1977
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Unnatural Science, cont’d.
June 23, 1977
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The Crab
June 9, 1977
The Unseen Fight Against Cancer by Thelma Brumfield Dunn MD.
The Cancer Connection: And What We Can Do About It by Larry Agran
X-Rays: More Harm Than Good by Priscilla Laws
You Can Fight For Your Life: Emotional Factors in the Causation of Cancer by Lawrence LeShan
You Can Fight Cancer and Win by Jane E. Brody, by Arthur I. Holleb MD.
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Politics & IQ
March 31, 1977
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Politics & IQ
March 31, 1977
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Unnatural Science
February 3, 1977
The Science and Politics of IQ by Leon J. Kamin
The IQ Controversy edited by N.J. Block, edited by Gerald Dworkin
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A Better Mouse Trap
June 10, 1976
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The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice
April 15, 1976
The Patchwork Mouse by Joseph Hixson
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Outbidding
April 17, 1975
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Victims of Psychiatry
January 23, 1975
The Victim Is Always the Same by I. S. Cooper MD.
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How to Be Your Own Worst Enemy
April 4, 1974
Type A Behavior and Your Heart by Meyer Friedman MD, by Ray H. Rosenman MD
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The Evolution of a Proof
November 15, 1973
Darwin and His Critics: The Reception of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution by the Scientific Community by David L. Hull
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The Ape Redressed
March 8, 1973
The Animal in Its World: Vol. 1, Explorations of an Ethologist 1932-1972
by Niko Tinbergen
Early Childhood Autism: An Ethological Approach by E.A. Tinbergen, by N. Tinbergen
Dominant Mammal by Macfarlane Burnet
The Human Imperative
by Alexander Alland Jr.
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Lady Fleming
October 7, 1971
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The Volubility of DNA
May 20, 1971
Genetics of the Evolutionary Process
by Theodosius Dobzhansky
The Evolution of Man and Society by C.D. Darlington
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The Scientific Imagination
April 9, 1970
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The Molecular Shadow
October 23, 1969
Biology and Man by George Gaylord Simpson
The Relations between the Sciences by C.F.A. Pantin
Approaches to a Philosophical Biology by Marjorie Grene
Towards a Theoretical Biology I.U.B.S. Symposium, by ed. C.H. Waddington
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A Johnsonian Scientist
October 10, 1968
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Lucky Jim
March 28, 1968
The Double Helix by James D. Watson