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The Abortion Cocktail
In April 1970, in the pages of the Obstetrical and Gynecological Review, I reviewed the history of attempts to control population growth by means of medical—i.e., nonsurgical—abortion. Starting in antiquity,...
Beyond Meaning
Medicine Ethics, and the Third Reich: Historical and Contemporary Issues Edited by John J. Michalczyk Sheed & Ward 240 pages. $19.95 Arthur Cohen has characterized it as “beyond the...
What Mendel Wrought
The Gene Wars: Science, Politics, and the Human Genome By Robert Cook-Deegan Norton. 416 pp. $25 I must confess that I didn’t understand genetics in high school biology; I...
Healing Words
Do you pray? How often? Whom (or what) do you pray to (or for)? Does your prayer accomplish anything demonstrable by ordinary means? Do you find yourself praying more...
Patiently, Voraciously …
The Human Body Shop: The Engineering and Marketing of Life by Andrew Kimbrell HarperCollins, 348 pages, $22 What Ralph Nader did to the auto barons, what Rachel Carson did...
Koop De Grâce
Koop: The Memoirs of America’s Family Doctor by C. Everett Koop Random House, 342 pages, $22.50 What baleful things may befall a rugged, plain-spoken, life-affirming man when he ventures...
