The shocking truth of what really happened in American medicine during the 20th century Influenced by the eugenics movement and under the allure of grand scientific breakthroughs, doctors and researchers tested out new medicines and medical procedures on some of America’s most vulnerable populations: institutionalized children. Researchers in need of test subjects looked to sta...(展开全部)

During the Cold War, an alliance between American scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and the US military pushed the medical establishment into ethically fraught territory. Doctors and scientists at prestigious institutions were pressured to produce medical advances to compete with the perceived threats coming from the Soviet Union. In "Against Their Will," authors Allen Horn...(展开全部)

During the Cold War, an alliance between American scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and the US military pushed the medical establishment into ethically fraught territory. Doctors and scientists at prestigious institutions were pressured to produce medical advances to compete with the perceived threats coming from the Soviet Union. In "Against Their Will," authors Allen Horn...(展开全部)

爱德华多·萨切里(Eduardo Sacheri) 1967年生于布宜诺斯艾利斯，做过中学和大学教师，九十年代开始创作。 《谜一样的眼睛》出版后大受欢迎，由其担任编剧改编为同名电影并被搬上荧幕后，获得西班牙戈雅奖最佳外国西语片，同时获得奥斯卡最佳外语片奖。

The basis for the Oscar-winning film Benjamín Chaparro is a retired detective still obsessed by the brutal, decades-old rape and murder of a young married woman in her own bedroom. While attempting to write a book about the case, he revisits the details of the investigation. As he reaches into the past, Chaparro also recalls the beginning of his long, unrequited love for Iren...(展开全部)

Review A vivid tale inspired by the author's own family history. (EASY LIVING ) Book Description In 1920s India, where do two little girls belong? Born of two cultures, belonging to neither... Product Description Assam, 1925. James MacDonald is one of the sons of empire who has no yearning for England. Running a tea plantation, he loves India and is reluctant to choose a Britis...(展开全部)

"The best history of American whaling to come along in a generation."--Nathaniel Philbrick. "Leviathan" is the epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the...(展开全部)

The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Eric Jay Dolin begins his ...(展开全部)

The issues constituting the history of medicine are consequential: how societies organize health care, how individuals or states relate to sickness, how we understand our own identity and agency as sufferers or healers. In Locating Medical History: The Stories and Their Meanings, Frank Huisman, John Harley Warner, and other eminent historians explore and reflect on a field tha...(展开全部)

The issues constituting the history of medicine are consequential: how societies organize health care, how individuals or states relate to sickness, how we understand our own identity and agency as sufferers or healers. In Locating Medical History: The Stories and Their Meanings, Frank Huisman, John Harley Warner, and other eminent historians explore and reflect on a field tha...(展开全部)