Richard Brown writes to say that you can read his Rockefeller Medicine Men (once dubbed the “most controversial” work of medical history in a decade by Ronald Numbers) for free online now at a website called “Soil and Health.” Click here to go.

I asked Howard Berliner, Professor of Health Services Management and Policy at the New School in New York City, if he could write a brief comment on the Buffett donation and the ideology of the Gates Foundation, and he graciously agreed to do so. Berliner is a polymath — an expert on urban health […]

AMSA is the country’s progressive medical student organization and does lots of great work. Its origins, however, are rather unsavory, at least from this political end of things.
One can trace AMSA back to two organizations, the Interne Council and the Association of Medical Students, which were formed by liberal/left/progressive interns and medical […]

In a post a few days ago on the Gates Foundation’s health programs, I didn’t excerpt this section of the Times’ description of their strategy, in which so-called “microcredit”/”microloan” programs will play a key role.
Excerpt:
Although the money will not change the foundation’s larger goals, Mrs. Gates mentioned yesterday that it had been moving quietly for […]

The New York Review of Books features a review-essay on the new general-interst books on climate change that have come out recently. Check it out here.