Environmental health

The Melancholy of Anatomy

by Wendell Berry,

By Wendell Berry, from Our Only World, out this month from Counterpoint. Berry’s essay “Faustian Economics” appeared in the May 2008 issue of Harper’s Magazine. Read More

Refining Graft

by Jamie Lincoln Kitman,

The oil industry may yet dodge the cleanup of MTBE

The poison stream

by Matthew Power,

Sacrificing India’s poor on the altar of modernity

We are not immune

by Ronald J. Glasser,

Influenza, SARS, and the collapse of public health

Beyond traditional medicine

by René J. (René Jules) Dubos,

The war against pneumonia

by Burton Jesse Hendrick,

Recent medical discoveries at Rockefeller Hospital