The New Books Network History of Science podcast channel recently released an interview by Dr. Morteza Hajizadeh of Dr. Laura R. Kremmel about her 2022 book “Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination; Morbid Anatomies.”
My lingering state of feeling perpetually sleep deprived made me take particular notice of a recent Columbia University Press “Off the Page” podcast episode in which Quinn Eastman discussed his new book “The Woman Who Couldn’t Wake Up; Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness” with Melek Firat Altay.
While much of the coverage of widespread outbreaks of disease tends to focus on the immediate effects being seen, those who take a more historical view of the world well know that even larger changes – perhaps even paradigm-shifting ones – are often seen in the aftermath of pandemics. Prof. James Belich’s “The World the Plague Made” presents his examination the Black Death of the European Middle Ages and the changes it brought to the world.
While many have heard, and may often make reference to the Hippocratic Oath, few have actually ever read it, and even fewer know what it means or indeed know much of anything about the larger body of writings in which it is contained. This new edition of the Loeb Classical Library’s Hippocrates Volume 1 now makes a fresh translation of the Oath, as well as other important writings in the Hippocratic collection, available to all who would avail themselves of it.