Posts Tagged as ‘Medicine’

January 15, 2010

Tracy Kidder on Haiti

Tracy Kidder, author of such bestselling books as the college common reading classic Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World  and the new, critically-lauded Strength in What Remains, has penned an interesting op-ed in The New York Times about the current crisis in Haiti, offering some much [...]

December 14, 2009

Your Brain on Swine Flu

by Amanda Ripley, author of The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why and a contributor to TIME Magazine. One of the strange things about influenza pandemics is that they happen in slow motion, giving us time to reflect. Looking back, it’s clear that one major challenge was (and will be) striking the elusive balance [...]