Constance E. Squires’ novel is billed as the first work of fiction to tackle what is considered to be the worst act of ...

Dissecting cadavers is a mainstay of medical education, but it relies on donors and poses ethical and other challenges. Roshni Shastri and Crispin Wiles argue that modern teaching has moved on, but ...

Hamilton Cain, who also reviews for the New York Times Book Review and Washington Post, lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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For years, public-health authorities downplayed the risk that pathogens could spread via droplets light enough to circulate ...