Melissa Shepherd

“Zhang’s journey, which is worthy of a book of its own, is one of those classic immigration tales that has made America great. He was born in 1981 in Shijiazhuang,”
― Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

“As Claude Bernard had prophetically suggested, the laboratory bench became the emblem of the newly emergent medical science and the locus of medical epistemology.”
― Frank M. Snowden III, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present

“Such pervasive and violent opposition to the city’s public health program prevented the plan from being implemented as every municipal initiative provoked a violent backlash and drove Naples to a state of near anarchy. The Times of London commented that the port was afflicted with something worse than cholera—“medieval ignorance and superstition.”
― Frank M. Snowden III, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present

“Alexander Fleming issued a prophetic warning. Penicillin, he advised, needed to be administered with care because the bacteria susceptible to it were likely to develop resistance. The selective pressure of so powerful a medicine would make it inevitable.”
― Frank M. Snowden III, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present