
Lessons from the Worst Years of AIDS
Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey Through the AIDS Crisis
by Ross A. Slotten
September 24, 2020 issue
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Jerome Groopman is the Recanati Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the coauthor, with Pamela Hartzband, of Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What Is Right for You. (September 2020)
Lessons from the Worst Years of AIDS
Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey Through the AIDS Crisis
by Ross A. Slotten
September 24, 2020 issue
The Body Strikes Back
An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
by Matt Richtel
The Beautiful Cure: The Revolution in Immunology and What It Means for Your Health
by Daniel M. Davis
March 21, 2019 issue
The Elusive Artificial Heart
Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart
by Mimi Swartz
Artificial Hearts: The Allure and Ambivalence of a Controversial Medical Technology
by Shelley McKellar
November 22, 2018 issue
The Bugs Are Winning
‘Superbugs: An Arms Race Against Bacteria’ by William Hall, Anthony McDonnell, and Jim O’Neill
Superbugs: An Arms Race Against Bacteria
by William Hall, Anthony McDonnell, and Jim O’Neill
June 28, 2018 issue
The Sounds of Silence
The Language of Light: A History of Silent Voices
by Gerald Shea
December 7, 2017 issue
Putting Profits Ahead of Patients
Health care in the US is enormously costly, often in ways that are baffling not only to patients but to doctors themselves.
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
by Elisabeth Rosenthal
Getting Risk Right: Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks
by Geoffrey C. Kabat
July 13, 2017 issue
Sick But Not Sick
‘Is It All in Your Head? True Stories of Imaginary Illness’ by Suzanne O’Sullivan
Is It All in Your Head? True Stories of Imaginary Illness
by Suzanne O’Sullivan
February 9, 2017 issue
Cancer: A Time for Skeptics
‘The Death of Cancer’ by Vincent T. DeVita Jr. and Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
The Death of Cancer
by Vincent T. DeVita Jr. and Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
March 10, 2016 issue
A Doctor’s Body Language
Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum
by Gavin Francis
November 5, 2015 issue
The Victory of Oliver Sacks
His work inspires the next generation to think and create
On the Move: A Life
by Oliver Sacks
May 21, 2015 issue
Vaccinate or Not?
The natural world of unopposed pathogens is full of danger
On Immunity: An Inoculation
by Eula Biss
Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine
by Paul A. Offit, M.D.
March 5, 2015 issue
When Doctors Admit They Went Wrong
Internal Medicine: A Doctor’s Stories
by Terrence Holt
November 6, 2014 issue
How Memory Speaks
When we reflect on the manifold manifestations of memory, the mundane becomes marvelous.
I Forgot to Remember: A Memoir of Amnesia
by Su Meck, with Daniel de Visé
Memory: From Mind to Molecules
by Larry R. Squire and Eric R. Kandel
Madness and Memory: The Discovery of Prions—A New Biological Principle of Disease
by Stanley B. Prusiner, MD
The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging
by Margaret Lock
The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia
by David Stuart MacLean
May 22, 2014 issue
Marijuana: The High and the Low
A New Leaf: The End of Cannabis Prohibition
by Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian
February 20, 2014 issue
Unlike Others
Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery
by Rachel Adams
October 10, 2013 issue
What Is Autism?
Temple Grandin’s ‘The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum’
The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum
by Temple Grandin and Richard Panek
June 6, 2013 issue
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