November 22nd, 2010
“The lessons of history should give us pause,” writes the medical historian W.F. Bynum in a long piece about malaria vaccines in Friday’s Wall Street Journal.
The occasion for Bynum’s piece is the publication of an optimistic new book about malaria vaccines, written by the entrepreneur-philanthropist Bill Shore, with the somewhat nauseating title of “The
Imaginations [...]
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November 5th, 2010
November 5, 2011. 7 pm. Keynote address. Hart Global Living and Learning Center. SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY. Free and open to the public.
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October 19th, 2010
October 19, 2011. 6:30 pm. “The Fever: how malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years.” Hollins University, Roanoke, VA.
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October 18th, 2010
October 18, 2011. 7 pm. “The Fever: How malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years.” Nazareth College, Rochester NY.
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October 8th, 2010
Controlling malaria–as opposed to eradicating it, as today’s enthusiasts urge–may be a safer, more sustainable and socially valuable goal, I argue in this op-ed, which appears in today’s New York Times online (and also in the International Herald Tribune). Read it here.
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October 4th, 2010
My op-ed on why malaria may never be eradicated–think chimps and gorillas–appears in this month’s Le Monde Diplomatique, in the English edition. Read it here: http://mondediplo.com/2010/10/13malaria
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October 4th, 2010
October 4, 2011. 8 pm. “The Fever: Writing, Women, and the Environment.” Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA. Free and open to the public. Reception and book-signing to follow.
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September 27th, 2010
Only a few million of India’s billion-strong populace can read. Ekkitab.com–”ek kitab” means “one book” in Hindi–is a new online bookstore with the grand ambition of “enabling a billion readers,” by, among other things, providing easy online access to cheap books.
“How do we feel about belonging to that privileged group of a few [...]
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September 14th, 2010
September 14, 2011. 12:30 PST. Interview with Shirin Sadeghi, “New America Now,” 91.7 FM KALW San Francisco
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September 13th, 2010
Last week, I spoke with medical journalist Randi Hutter Epstein, about malaria, politics, Jeff Sachs, and the future of mosquitoes, in a video interview arranged by Bloggingheads.tv. Randi, whose new book Get Me Out is on the history of childbirth, did her medical school thesis on malaria history, and also wrote a nice review of [...]
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