Research is driven by human interests,
“No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. —Mahatma Gandhi”
― The Intelligent Conversationalist: 31 Cheat Sheets That Will Show You How to Talk to Anyone About Anything, Anytime
― The Intelligent Conversationalist: 31 Cheat Sheets That Will Show You How to Talk to Anyone About Anything, Anytime
“Epidemics afflict societies through the specific vulnerabilities people have created by their relationships with the environment, other species, and each other.”
― Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present
― Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present
“In case you’re inclined to dismiss such obstacles as a vanished feature of the remote past, in the state of Florida in the year 2000 about 100,000 potential voters, the vast majority of them Democrats, were pruned off the list of registered voters. That pruning had an enormous effect on tipping the Florida 2000 presidential vote, hence the U.S. presidency,”
― Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
― Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
“Echoing Fleming’s warning, theorists of emerging diseases argue that antibiotics are a “nonrenewable resource” whose duration of efficacy is biologically limited.”
― Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present
― Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present
“As Claude Bernard had prophetically suggested, the laboratory bench became the emblem of the newly emergent medical science and the locus of medical epistemology.”
― Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present
― Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present
Highland Book Club
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Melissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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