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Holly Tucker
Holly Tucker is Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University, where she holds appointments in the Center for Medicine, Health & Society and the Department of French & Italian. Holly teaches courses on the history of medicine as well as courses on French history and culture.Her writing has... show more
Holly Tucker is Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University, where she holds appointments in the Center for Medicine, Health & Society and the Department of French & Italian. Holly teaches courses on the history of medicine as well as courses on French history and culture.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.Join Holly on her Facebook author page (http://www.facebook.com/hollytucker) or on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/history_geek).Holly's Upcoming Events:Research Triangle Park, NC-January 13-15, 2011 - Science Online 2011Nashville-March 2, 2011 - Thinking Out of the Lunch Box series, Nashville Public Library (Main)New York (March)-March 23, 2011 - CUNY Graduate School of Journalism-March 23, 2011 - New York Academy of MedicineChicago-March 30, 2011 - University of Illinois at Chicago-March 30, 2011 - Newberry Library (Chicago)Madison-March 31, 2011 - Authors@HSLC (Madison)-March 31, 2011 - Department of French & Italian (Madison-TBD)-April 1, 2011 - History of Science Brownbag (Madison)Chicago-April 3, 2011 - International Museum of Surgical ScienceKnoxville, TN-April 8, 2011 - University of Tennessee-KnoxvilleBoston/Cambridge-April 14, 2011 - Harvard UniversityNew York (April)-April 29, 2011, 8:00pm - Observatory (New York)-April 29-May 1, 2011 - American Society of Journalists and Authors (New York)College Park, MD-May 6-7, 2011 - Blood Work conference, University of MarylandBaltimore-May 12, 2011 - Berman Institute for Bioethics/Institute for the History of Medicine (Johns Hopkins, Baltimore)Richmond, VA-May 13, 2011 - Book signing, Fountain BookstoreNashville, TN-October 14-16, 2011 - 2011 Southern Festival of BooksBoston/Cambridge-Date TBA: Harvard University Renaissance SeminarSalt Lake City-Date TBA: Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities (University of Utah)
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Merle
Merle rated it 5 years ago
This true account of a massive criminal investigation in 1670’s Paris could have been much better. In brief, many people accused others of involvement in poison and witchcraft, and at least some of the poisoning seems to have been true (various poisons were in fact found in the possession of some of...
fruitcakes
fruitcakes rated it 10 years ago
Book was organized around the narrative instead of chronological which worked but nessecitated some jumping around and repeating. Liked the intertwining of science, politics, religion-- really felt like I got a feel for the time rather than just facts. Not just a dry recounting, and while there is s...
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Jammies' books rated it 14 years ago
In one way, this book is difficult to read. It deals with some truly horrific experiments in the name of science and some truly horrific human stupidity.In another way, this book is easy to read. The writing flows smoothly, the events narrated are fascinating and the science is explained in a way ...
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