Postwar U.s. Was The World's

If The History Of Medicine Is Told Through The Stories Of Doctors, It Is Because Their Contributions Stand In Place Of The More Substantive Heroism Of Their Patients.

In Paris, Friend Of Bequerel’s, A Young Physicist-chemist Couple Named Pierre And Marie Curie, Began To Scour The Natural World For Even More Powerful Chemical Sources Of X-rays. Pierre And Marie (then Maria Sklodowska, A Penniless Polish Immigrant Living In A Garret In Paris) Had Met At The Sorbonne And Been Drawn To Each Other Because Of A Common Interest In Magnetism.

There Is A Very Moving And Ancient Connection Between Cancer And Depression.

I Wanted To Explore Cancer Not Just Biologically, But Metaphorically. The Idea That Tuberculosis In The 19th Century Possessed The Same Kind Of Frightening And Decaying Quality Was Very Interesting To Me, And It Seemed That One Could Explore The Idea That Every Age Defined Its Own Illness.

I Think When We Use 'stress', We Are Often Using A Kind Of Dummy Word To Try To Fit Many Different Things Into One Big Category.