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Gavin Francis

Gavin Francis is a physician and writer in Edinburgh. He has won several awards for his books, which include Empire Antarctica, Adventures in Human Being, and, most recently, Shapeshifters: A Journey Through the Changing Human Body.  (May 2019)

A man wearing a face mask walks by a mural depicting Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba, May 13, 2020

Pandemic Journal

The latest edition of our brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Coco Fusco in Brooklyn, Lucas Adams in Brooklyn, Sara Nović in Philadelphia, Gavin Francis in Edinburgh, and more.

May 15, 2020

The Value of a Cell

June 27, 2019 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

Letter

Meredith Wadman

The Value of a Cell

June 27, 2019 issue

Rembrandt: Self-Portrait in a Cap: Laughing, 1630

LOL

Studies of Laughter in Interaction

edited by Phillip Glenn and Elizabeth Holt

October 11, 2018 issue

Drawing of injured Purkinje neurons of the cerebellum, 1914

Flower Garden of the Brain

It wasn’t until the late nineteenth century that brain structures began to be uncovered, by a Spanish microscopist called Santiago Ramón y Cajal.

August 18, 2017

Learn to Sign!

January 8, 2015 issue

Deaf-mute children learning to hear through their vibratory senses at a school in Zurich, 1955

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

Letter

Learn to Sign!

January 8, 2015 issue

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