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Oliver Sacks: a life in pictures - Pan Macmillan, oliver sacks

A selection of pictures from Oliver Sacks's autobiography, On the Move charting the life of the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. A selection of pictures from Oliver Sacks s ....

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The Messed Up Truth About America's Experiments In Guatemala


The Messed Up Truth About America s Experiments In Guatemala
By Marina Manoukian/Feb. 24, 2021 2:34 pm EDT
Even after an effective treatment of syphilis was discovered, some scientists were still concerned with finding an effective prophylaxis rather than working on bettering the existing treatment technique. And after reading about the clinical effectiveness of the orvus-mapharsen prophylaxis that Drs. Arnold and Mahoney proved effective in rabbits, some researchers decided to pursue human experimentation of this prophylaxis.
And despite the fact that the article describing these rabbit experiments noted that such experiments in humans would be ethically impossible, posted at the Bioethics Archive at Georgetown University, some researchers from the United States, with funding from the government, decided to go ahead and try it anyway. ....

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The Crazy Real-Life Story Of 1984 Author George Orwell


The Crazy Real-Life Story Of 1984 Author George Orwell
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By S. Flannagan/Jan. 11, 2021 3:08 pm EDT/Updated: Jan. 11, 2021 3:10 pm EDT
There s an old stereotype about novelists that they ll do anything to get new material. In the case of George Orwell, one of the most quoted (and misquoted) authors of the 20th century, this certainly rings true. In fact, the British author had what can only be described as an almost pathological necessity to accumulate experiences through which to understand the world anew. 
Born into a moderately wealthy family as Eric Arthur Blair in India in 1903, according to Biography, his father worked in the Indian Civil Service, overseeing the cultivation of poppies and the production and export of opium to China on behalf of the British Empire, per the BBC. Orwell s mother, who returned to England with her son and his older sister when he was just a year old, was from a cash-poor aristocratic ....

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