Author: Ashitha B. Arun
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Howick, Jeremy, The Power of Placebos: How the Science of Placebos and Nocebos Can Improve Health Care
Jeremy Howick, The Power of Placebos: How the Science of Placebos and Nocebos Can Improve Health Care (Johns Hopkins University Press: 2023) 320 pp. $32.95 Hb. ISBN: 9781421446387 Can the solution to the opioid crisis—and perhaps even the superbug problem—lie in using less medication, without compromising pain relief or curability? Professor and Director of Empathic…
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Hall, Kersten T., Insulin – The Crooked Timber: A History from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street Gold
Kersten T. Hall, Insulin – The Crooked Timber: A History from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street Gold (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022) 480 pp. £31.49 Hb. ISBN: 9780192855381 Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. — Immanuel Kant Whether you interpret Kant’s famous quote in a moral sense,…
