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A new editorial team has been chosen to lead the groundbreaking journal Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action (PCHP). Alvin H. Strelnick, Assistant Dean for Community Engagement at New York's Albert Einstein College of...

The Problem with Pilots: How Physicians, Engineers, and Airpower Enthusiasts Redefined Flight By Timothy P. Schultz As a pilot I was surprised to learn that pilots are the biggest problem in aviation. As a historian I wanted to learn why. The result was this...

Almost two decades ago, Pennsylvania State University professor Brian Lennon published an article in the journal Configurations. As he looked for a home for a recent article on the history of JavaScript, he found that his old article marked the only use of the...

Among the many unexpected findings that I uncovered while researching my book on the Second Seminole War (1835-1842), the most startling was the major role of malaria. Previous historians of this often-marginalized war have focused on traditional wartime...

One of my most vivid memories from my experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Senegal occurred soon after I moved to my assigned village. A group of NGO and government workers arrived to immunize children. Village elites enthusiastically told them to...

The journal Perspectives in Biology and Medicine recently published a special issue on decisions involving medical futility. The issue features 21 responses to a paper written by Lawrence J. Schneiderman, Nancy S. Jecker and Albert R. Jonsen. Editor Martha...

CHANCE PARTICULARS: A WRITER’S FIELD NOTEBOOK… Why did I write Chance Particulars, a guide to keeping a field notebook? Most of my books, I have written spurred by my own curiosity or lust, or from a need to sort something out--books about the creeds of lonely...

With the announced retirement of Rep. Rick Nolan of Minnesota, a milestone in congressional history will be reached next January. For the first time in 48 years, the House will contain no one elected to the historic post-Watergate 94th Congress, the Class of...

MORALIZING THE MARKET This book started as an inquiry into a very specific case of policy transfer from the United States to France in the late 1960s: prompted by the outrage generated by a spectacular insider trading scandal at the Paris Bourse, French policy...

After finishing my previous book about lie detection technologies (The Lying Brain), I went in search other machines that monitor various physiological data, analyze them according to a specific algorithm, and produce information about what a subject is...