I feel like I have a pretty good understanding of what makes scientific research credible, and that I generally know when to believe something (climate change) and when to not (Andrew Wakefield). And yet when it comes to health-related items, I’m kind of baffled. Okay, not totally baffled. I know that movement is good. There doesn’t seem to be any credible research suggesting it’s better to NOT exercise at all. Cool. Got that. And, as of late, I’m finally coming to terms with the fact […]
I have felt that odd whirr of wings in the head
This book scared the pants off me. Perhaps I shouldn’t have chosen this to read when my latest bout of insomnia hit, but it certainly held me in its thrall until the very end. Susannah Cahalan was a bright young reporter for the New York Post, when she awoke one morning to find a mysterious bug bite on her arm. As it was during the height of the bed bug scare, she tore her place apart, cleaning and looking for signs of an infestation. She […]
The Reality of Burns
My first five-star book of 2015! I was a little worried about picking up a long, dense, science non-fiction book after so much young adult reading the past week or so. But this book was fantastic. I found it at Powell’s in the health and medical section and I’m just so glad I did. Ms. Ravage does a really excellent job of describing what really goes on when someone is burned. I imagine that when most of us think about a burn injury, we picture […]
A sad little book that never got asked to the dance
What a peculiar little book. I happened to be browsing through the stacks at the local public library, and came across it. The title caught my eye, and then I saw it was authored by a psychiatrist with whose work I am familiar in the area of catatonia. I did not expect to find a book on this topic written by a well-known professor of psychiatry tucked away amongst the more popular titles. My confusion only grew when I actually read the book today, as […]
Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl
Just under the wire! I received Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl as one of a dozen (literally) books for Christmas. In my family I’m the ‘allergy girl’ though reading Beasley’s account of 30 years of severe food allergies has me counting my blessings. This memoir is more informative than anecdotal; but rather than reading like a text book, Birthday Girl takes a dense subject for many and makes it entertaining. In 1992, Sandra’s fourth grade class was visited by a nutritionist regarding the newly developed […]
Women’s Rights From an Academic Perspective
I read From Outrage to Courage for an online course on International Women’s Health and Human Rights I took from Stanford University, which was led by the author, Anne Firth Murray. As a textbook, it was spot on in covering the main material of the course, as one would expect, but as a primer on women’s issues around the world, one could not ask for a better overview of the pressures, problems and political land mines that women face every day, around the world, from […]
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