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Holly Tucker teaches at Vanderbilt University, where she holds appointments in the Center for Medicine, Health & Society and the Department of French & Italian. Her writing has appeared in the New Scientist, the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Journal, among others. Holly is also the author of Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine & Murder in the Scientific Revolution (Norton, March 2011), and edits the general history website Wonders & Marvels.

Summer Reading from Emma B.

By Susan Hiner, Guest Contributor


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Bonjour! It’s me, Emma B.[1]


Looking for a good book? … well, your search is over! Just in time for your beach vacation on the Normandy coast (or, if you’re lucky, off to the Hamptons with your lover), or maybe to while away the hours of your “staycation” at home with the kids on those sweltering days in the burbs (my most likely scenario, alas), or possibly

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“Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown. —William Harvey, De motu cordis (1628)”
Holly Tucker, Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution

“Montpellier produced nearly 40 percent of all physicians in France, but the university had a troubled reputation as a party school where medical students were just as likely to drink and cavort with prostitutes as they were to learn the intricacies of the Hippocratic corpus.”
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E.A. Bucchianeri Hi, thank you for accepting my friend invitation!


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Holly Tucker Tamara wrote: "Saw you on t.v. the other day and you were great. It was fun to see you."

Hi Tamara! Thanks for the nice note--it was a fun experience. You should have heard the whole family scream when we watched it all together!

All my best, Holly


Marata Saw you on t.v. the other day and you were great. It was fun to see you.


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