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With her new book coming out soon, Dr. Janice Wiesman has stopped by the JHUP blog to answer a few questions about Peripheral Neuropathy. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? For the past 20 years I have been educating patients and families about...

Mary Lincoln has been a mystery for more than 150 years. Irritable as the wife of Abraham Lincoln in Illinois, erratic as First Lady, and frankly psychotic as a widow, she died at the young age of 63 after years of unusual physical symptoms and progressively...

Late last year, the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth published a special issue which took a look at the thorny subject of child death. Kathleen Jones organized a discussion of young people and death at the 2013 conference for the Society for the...

Guest post by Alan Barbour, MD (With Lyme disease on the move and in news, we invited Lyme Disease author Dr. Alan Barbour to contribute regular updates to the JHU Press blog. His posts will highlight the latest findings on Lyme and other deer tick-associated...

At first glance, medical diagnosis might seem like a cut-and-dry topic. However, much more goes into this aspect of medical practice than most people think. Annemarie Jutel, co-editor of Social Issues in Diagnosis and author of Putting a Name to It, recently...

We’re excited about the books we’ll be publishing this spring—and we're pleased to start off the new year with a series of posts that highlight our forthcoming titles. Be sure to check out the online edition of JHUP’s entire Spring 2016 catalog, and remember...

In late 2015, the Journal of Late Antiquity published a special issue on the intersections of religion, medicine, health, healing and disability in Late Antiquity. Guest edited by Kristi Upson-Saia and Heidi Marx-Wolf, the issue featured 10 essays on this...

Guest post by Elizabeth M. Adler, PhD Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, who was diagnosed several weeks ago with an aggressive form of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma, has recently begun chemotherapy. Lymphoma comes in an astonishing variety of “flavors,” making it...

Guest Post by Donald E. Thomas, Jr., M.D., FACP, FACR “To know lupus is to know medicine” is a common saying repeated by attending physicians to their medical students and residents. For the medical student and the young physician, this can create some anxiety...

Sociologist Renée C. Fox considers how communications from Médecins San Frontières/Doctors Without Borders keep her connected with the achievements, trials, dreams, and values of medical humanitarian action. She is the author of Doctors Without Borders...