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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...

When the still ongoing insurgencies in Afghanistan and Iraq erupted after the U.S. invasions, the U.S. government and military seemed both surprised and befuddled, as if they had never dealt with such things before. This was a repetition of the response in the...

Several years ago my colleague Neil Pemberton asked me when police started using tape to protect crime scenes. Though I had written extensively on the history of forensics I had no ready answer. As we talked it through we realized that the history of crime...

The following are extended captions from Elizabeth Fee’s Disease and Discovery: A History of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1916–1939. Fee’s book tells the story of the founding and early years of the nation’s first dedicated school of...

Earlier this year, Jennifer Parker-Starbuck joined the editorial team at Theatre Journal as Co-Editor. The Head of Department, Drama, Theatre and Performance and a Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Roehampton, her work focuses...

In a recent talk to a group about my new book, Faces of the Civil War Navies, an audience member approached me with a question shortly before I stepped up to the podium. He politely inquired which aspect of the navy I’d talk about, Brown Water (rivers) or Deep...

November brings the opening of enrollment for 2017 health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as well as new questions about the sustainability of the health insurance marketplace created by ACA. The market in many areas of the country is...

Earlier this year, the journal L’Esprit Créateur published a special issue on the links between medicine and narrative, arguing that patients’ stories have a valuable role to play in patient-centered healthcare. Guest edited by Steven Wilson, the issue looked...

Have you ever wondered how we know what we know about the world around us? Does our perception of reality correspond to something outside of our mind, or maybe everything we see around us is merely an illusion? Have you every questioned your own existence or...

On 6 October 2016 the British pound fell 6 per cent in the space of just a few minutes of electronic trading. Just as quickly, sterling regained most of its value, but the scare caused the new Chancellor of the Exchequer to warn that the road to Brexit might...