culture, history

William Helfand began buying medically themed collectibles in the 1950s when he started working for Merck & Co. 

Seventeenth-century Tibet witnessed a blossoming of medical knowledge, including a set of 79 paintings, known as tangkas, that interweaved practical medical knowledge with Buddhist traditions and local lore.

In Chapter 3, “Credibility: Validating Discovery Claims,” author Frederick Grinnell details the difficulty in making discoveries that buck current scientific paradigms.

Quirk, Darwin's Armada, The Death & Life of Monterey Bay, Elegance in Science

The winding path that an interesting result takes to become a bona fide discovery is just one of the topics covered in this new book on the practice of science.

In Chapter 2, "Progressive Desire," author Erika Lorraine Milam explores sexual selection’s incursion into evolutionary theory.