David Oshinsky

David Oshinsky is the Director of the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU Langone Health and a Professor of History at New York University. His most recent book is Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital. (March 2025)

Vaccines at Warp Speed

Vaccines at Warp Speed

The development of the Covid vaccine relied on a public–private partnership that built on years of research into synthesizing RNA molecules. Will the next generation of RNA-based pharmaceuticals have the same basis in careful study and experimentation?

The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets

by Thomas R. Cech

March 27, 2025 issue

Health Care: The Best and the Rest

Health Care: The Best and the Rest

Ezekiel Emanuel’s new book makes a comparative study of eleven of the world’s health care systems. Who are the winners and losers?

Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care?

by Ezekiel J. Emanuel

October 22, 2020 issue

‘The Human Mind Was Not Made for War’

Signature Wounds: The Untold Story of the Military’s Mental Health Crisis

by David Kieran

February 13, 2020 issue

Should We Reopen the Asylums?

Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad and Criminal in 19th-Century New York

by Stacy Horn

Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity

by Theodore M. Porter

No One Cares About Crazy People: My Family and the Heartbreak of Mental Illness in America

by Ron Powers

Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness

by Alisa Roth

October 25, 2018 issue

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