ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Romanticism, Race, and Recapitulation

The Woods Hole Cantata. Essays on Science and Society

Legal scholar John Robertson argues that parents, physicians, and nurses who fail to give ordinary life-saving treatment to neonates are liable for several crimes, including murder; Dennis Horan advocates vigorous enforcement of existing laws, which for many reasons, usually are not brought to bear on these cases. Angela Holder asserts that parents and doctors remain within the law when refusin...

Commentary on the meaning of race in science and society.

Introduction Quite recently, I had a personal experience that underscored why we must constantly revisit the issue of race in America. I went to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in search of information about my great-great grandfather. I knew he was a slave in Raleigh, North Carolina who bought his freedom in 1838 and called himself “Freeman” because he was free. I also knew the...

Doctors in science and society: essays of a clinical scientist

CHRISTOPHER C. BOOTH, Doctors in science and society: essays of a clinical scientist, London, The Memoir Club (British Medical Journal), 1987, 8vo, pp. xv, 318, illus., £14.95. Christopher Booth has had an extremely distinguished medical career, at various times being professor of medicine at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, president of the British Medical Association and director of the...

Three Essays on Race and Politics

Three Essays on Race and Politics