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Bonfire of the Humanities
Behind the novelist's eye of Tom Wolfe — bestselling author of Bonfire of the Vanities — lies a keen interest in brain science. Wolfe explains why he sees human behavior as more than mechanistic, and genetic theory as little more than literature...[pdf] [text]
Bernard Ackerman,
Pathologist of Skin
Dr. Bernard Ackerman, who trained a generation of doctors to recognize skin diseases under the microscope, died Friday at his home in Manhattan... [full text]
Adrian Kantrowitz,
Cardiac Pioneer
Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, who performed the first human heart transplant in the United States in 1967, died Friday in Ann Arbor, Mich... [full text]
Health on the Web
An atlas of skin diseases, a Facebook for the terminally ill, and more from a set of Web site reviews in the New York Times' special section "Decoding Your Health." [full text]
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