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Gavin Francis is a physician in Edinburgh. He has won several awards for his books, which include Empire Antarctica and Adventures in Human Being. His latest book, Intensive Care, about his experience during the Covid-19 pandemic, will be published in the UK in January. (January 2021)
Changing Psychiatry’s Mind
Two books investigate the science and pseudoscience of diagnosing mental illness.
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
by Anne Harrington
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health: A Journey into the Heartland of Psychiatry
by Nathan Filer
January 14, 2021 issue
Resistance to Immunity
Three new books on the history of vaccines and immunity, and the anxieties that accompany them
Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines
by Jennifer A. Reich
Between Hope and Fear: A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity
by Michael Kinch
The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
by Meredith Wadman
May 23, 2019 issue
LOL
Studies of Laughter in Interaction
edited by Phillip Glenn and Elizabeth Holt
October 11, 2018 issue
The Mysterious World of the Deaf
Lydia Denworth’s ‘I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey Through the Science of Sound and Language’
I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey Through the Science of Sound and Language
by Lydia Denworth
November 20, 2014 issue
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