Book review: Fevered Planet
This book contends that infectious diseases first began to be problematic for humans when the ecological damage wrought by the twin practices of farming and organised agriculture became appreciable.
Review - Insulin: A Hundred-Year History
The author of this book, Stuart Bradwel, is an honorary research fellow working at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare in the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. At age 18 Bradwel was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, requiring regular daily usually self-administered injections of the hormone insulin. Bradwel turns his experience to good account by delving into the now 100-year-old history of the discovery of insulin, generally considered the most important medical breakthrough of the 20th century.