Month: August 2013

News and Notes The August 8 edition of the London Review of Books featured a magnificent Colm Tóibín appreciation of The Selected Letters of Anthony Hecht. Americans are living longer than ever, aided by ever-advancing life-saving medical technologies and treatments. Dr. Dan Morhaim, author of The Better End: Surviving (and Dying) on Your Own Terms in…

Guest post by Charles J. Rzepka The people of Detroit are again in mourning. Just a month ago they mourned their city. Today, they mourn the death of their best-known citizen. On July 18th, Detroit declared bankruptcy. Less than two weeks later, in the middle of working on his forty-sixth novel, Blue Dreams, Elmore Leonard suffered…

Guest post by Charles J. Rzepka The people of Detroit are again in mourning. Just a month ago they mourned their city. Today, they mourn the death of their best-known citizen. On July 18th, Detroit declared bankruptcy. Less than two weeks later, in the middle of working on his forty-sixth novel, Blue Dreams, Elmore Leonard suffered…

That’s become our motto at the JHU Press, where the only constant is change, as they say. And we’ve decided to embrace it. So when a prominent dermatologist agreed to write a book for us on the condition that we publish it as a multi-touch iBook, with patient videos and three-dimensional graphics, we replied with an…

That’s become our motto at the JHU Press, where the only constant is change, as they say. And we’ve decided to embrace it. So when a prominent dermatologist agreed to write a book for us on the condition that we publish it as a multi-touch iBook, with patient videos and three-dimensional graphics, we replied with an…

Guest post by Brian Southwell In late July 2013, Twitter posts regarding Prince George, the latest addition to the British royal family, outpaced those related to climate change by more than a 10 to 1 margin, according to the social media measurement site Topsy.com. One might argue that this signals the doom of our planet, as…

Guest post by Brian Southwell In late July 2013, Twitter posts regarding Prince George, the latest addition to the British royal family, outpaced those related to climate change by more than a 10 to 1 margin, according to the social media measurement site Topsy.com. One might argue that this signals the doom of our planet, as…

Guest post by Phillip K. Peterson, M.D. All adults—even doctors when they become patients—are faced with decisions about diagnostic tests and treatments.  One of the biggest controversies in recent years in the arena of diagnostic testing has been the value of the blood test for prostate specific antigen (PSA) as a screening tool for prostate…

Guest post by Phillip K. Peterson, M.D. All adults—even doctors when they become patients—are faced with decisions about diagnostic tests and treatments.  One of the biggest controversies in recent years in the arena of diagnostic testing has been the value of the blood test for prostate specific antigen (PSA) as a screening tool for prostate…

Guest post by John L. Koprowski Just across the pond in Belfast, Northern Ireland, more than a thousand mammalogists are attending the 11th International Mammalogical Congress from August 11-16, 2013, which is hosted by Queen’s University. This large international congregation brings together one species of social mammal (Homo sapiens) interested in other mammals as model systems for…