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The scientific entrepreneur as hero: from Arrowsmith to the covid-19 vaccines by Ilana Löwy

Cover Arrowsmith, Pocket Books, 1944 Edition Sinclair Lewis’s novel Arrowsmith, published in 1925 to critical and public acclaim (the book was awarded the Pulitzer prize, although Lewis refus…

Post date 29th January 2021
Post author By Ilana Löwy

Filmmaking as a way to document illness: The Good Breast and Unrest. by Cinzia Greco

We know that illness can be narrated but can it be shown? Feminist artists have been amongst the first to show the sick female body. Jo Spence used…

Post date 15th March 2019
Post author By Cinzia Greco

Speculation, Certainty and the Diagnostic Illusory: The Tricorder and the Deathless Man by Thierry Jutel

In the paragraphs which follow, we will be discussing the ways in which two pieces of speculative fiction, the science fiction film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,…

Post date 18th July 2017
Post author By Thierry Jutel