■ INTRODUCTION I never thought that I would write an autobiography, as I thought, in my opinion, that my personal history was of no interest to anyone except my close family. However, Professor Ilan Marek very kindly invited me to consider writing down the development of several scientific ideas in which I participated. At first I hesitated, but then I thought perhaps there was something specia...

Autobiographic throughout, The Art and Politics of Science is not an autobiography, and does not claim to be one. Neither is it a theoretical reflection on the relationship of science and politics. It is explicitly subjective, an always-personal account of what it means to do science. It tells us something about the nature of laboratory science, and of how politics is involved in the doing of s...

If I had to nominate a book of the year it would be a fascinating, and frequently exciting, autobiography of a remarkable surgeon. It is hard to imagine that the BMJ has ever reviewed a comparable book, and I am privileged to have been entrusted with the formidable task. However inadequate the result, its deficiency will not be due to lack of admiration of the many varied and great contribution...

This paper focuses on the presentation of the body in Martin Amis's memoir Experience (2000) and compares Amis's account of the growth of his mind and body with ideas put forward by writers in the phenomenological and psychoanalytic traditions. Using the ideas of body schema, projective identification and idea of safety, it advances a new conceptual framework for the thinking about the contribu...

Prologue I thank Ground Water and its editor for the privilege of sharing some highlights of my personal and professional lives with colleagues. The story of my childhood, which is a key to understanding who I am, might otherwise have never been told: I owe it to our younger colleagues, my children, and my grandchildren. I urge the reader to explore further the historical events and circumstanc...

I was born in Baghdad, Iraq, on December 11, 1948. Mesopotamia, now Iraq, had an old Jewish community that dated back 2600 years from the time of the destruction of the first Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. The Jews of Mesopotamia excelled as merchants, craftsmen, and rabbinic scholars. They created the Talmud, an important analysis of the Jewish legal code. The vast majority of the Jews immigrated...