Published April, 2020
By Henry M. Cowles
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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The scientific method is just over a hundred years old. From debates about the evolution of the human mind to the rise of instrumental reasoning, Henry M. Cowles shows how the idea of a single "scientific method" emerged from a turn inward by psychologists that produced powerful epistemological and historical effects that are still with us today.

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Published February, 2020
By Elizabeth Sandel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Sports concussions make headlines, but you don't have to be an NFL star to suffer traumatic brain injury. In Shaken Brain, Elizabeth Sandel, MD, shares stories and research from her decades treating and studying brain injuries. She explains what concussions do to our bodies, how to avoid them, and how to recover.

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Published February, 2020
By Rudiger Wehner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Cataglyphis ants can set out across vast expanses of desert terrain in search of prey, and then find the shortest way home. Rudiger Wehner has devised elegant experiments to unmask how they do it. Through a lively and lucid narrative, he offers a firsthand look at the extraordinary navigational skills of these charismatic creatures.

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Published December, 2019
By Christopher T. Robertson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Democrats and Republicans fight endlessly over health care, but neither side disputes one of the system's most basic flaws: the foisting on patients of substantial costs through deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance. Marshalling a decade of research, Christopher Robertson shows why this model is dysfunctional and offers ideas for improvement.

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Published December, 2019
By Sharon T. Strocchia
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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In Renaissance Italy women from all walks of life played a central role in health care and the early development of medical science. Observing that the frontlines of care are often found in the household and other spaces thought of as female, Sharon Strocchia encourages us to rethink women's place in the history of medicine.

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Published November, 2019
By Warren C. Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Warren Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov argue for a new way to measure individual and population aging. Instead of counting how many years we've lived, we should think about our "prospective age"-the number of years we expect to have left. Their pioneering model can generate better demographic estimates, which inform better policy choices.

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Published November, 2019
By Augustus A. White and David Chanoff
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Gus White grew up on the wrong side of the color line in Jim Crow Tennessee, then became the first black medical student at Stanford and a top surgeon at Harvard. Throughout his career he has witnessed unconscious bias against nonwhite patients. Seeing Patients shares these sobering stories and outlines concrete solutions to medical inequity.

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Published September, 2019
By Françoise Baylis
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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With the advent of CRISPR gene-editing technology, designer babies have become a reality. Francoise Baylis insists that scientists alone cannot decide the terms of this new era in human evolution. Members of the public, with diverse interests and perspectives, must have a role in determining our future as a species.

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Published August, 2019
By Paul Rosenbaum
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Published June, 2019
By Nara B. Milanich
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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For most of human history, paternity was uncertain. Blood types, fingerprinting, and, recently, DNA analysis promised to solve the riddle of paternity. But even genetic certainty did not end the quest for the father. Rather, as Nara Milanich reveals, it confirms the social, cultural, and political nature of the age-old question: Who's your father?

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