Discover how groundbreaking discoveries and pioneering figures have shaped healthcare while gaining valuable knowledge for the medical profession. Explore the reviews to find materials that can deepen your understanding of medicine’s impact on humanity.
Book Review: Speaking for the Dead: The Human Body in Biology and Medicine
Speaking for the Dead: The Human Body in Biology and Medicine by D. Gareth Jones and Maja I. Whitaker is...
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Book Review: Medicine After the Holocaust: From the Master Race to the Human Genome and Beyond
Medicine After the Holocaust: From the Master Race to the Human Genome and Beyond, edited by Sheldon Rubenfeld, is a...
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Book Review: The Lady Anatomist by Rebecca Messbarger
Rebecca Messbarger’s The Lady Anatomist: The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini tells the story of Anna Morandi Manzolini,...
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Fitzharris, Lindsey. The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine. New York: Scientific American, 2017
Outside the AAHM, Lister may best be remembered for the mouthwash Listerine (which he did not invent but was named...
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Mezrich, Joshua D. When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon. New York: Harper, 2019.
Mezrich, a transplant surgeon at Wisconsin weaves the history of his field into her personal journey as a transplant surgeon.
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Jones, Chip: The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South. New York: Gallery Books, 2020.
Jones, a veteran local journalist, relies on extensive interviews, court records, and news articles to reconstruct the first heart transplant...
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