medical history | medical history
Sep.13.2009
The classic medical text known as Gray’s Anatomy is one of the most famous books ever written. Now, on the 150th anniversary of its publication, acclaimed science writer and master of narrative nonfiction Bill Hayes has written the fascinating, never-before-told true story of how this seminal...
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Aug.01.2008
A drama that's in line with Reginald Rose's "12 Angry Men," this play is inspired by a true event and has a group of people who need to decide who lives. In the early 1960s, an anonymous committee of ordinary citizens in Seattle had to select people for an experiment that might save...
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Jun.20.2008
During World War I, seventeen-year-old Frieda Mintz secures a job at a Boston department store and strikes out on her own, escaping her repressive Jewish mother and marriage to a wealthy widower twice her age. Determined to find love on her own terms, she is intoxicated by her newfound freedom and...
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Jan.27.2008
The Mandrake Broom, a historical novel based in Europe 1465-1540, dramatizes one woman's courageous fight to save medical knowledge during the witch-burning times. Meet:
Luccia Alimenti, daughter of a medical professor at the University of Salerno, Italy, destined to carry ancient texts and...
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