Michael J Nevin

The Age of Illusions: The Political Economy of Britain, 1968-1982

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Mike Nevin

Michael D. Nevin (born 1943 December 1, 2012) was a Democratic ... Nevin was educated at St. Ignatius College Preparatory, graduating in 1961, and at the ...

Abraham Flexner: A Flawed American Icon

When Abraham Flexner died in 1959 at age 92, a New York Times obituary declared, "no other American of his time contributed more to the welfare of his country and of humanity in general." Flexner's famous Report in 1910 and his subsequent work at the Rockefeller Foundation helped transform American ...

More Meanderings in Medical History

These essays about various unrelated medical history subjects were composed over some three decades; some written recently, others published in my previous books. The title word "meandering" suggests randomness, but should not be mistaken for pointlessness for each vignette was prompted by something...

The Golden Guinea: The International Financial Crisis, 2007-2014: Causes, Consequences and Cures

Drawing on extensive experience of investment banking, project finance, and economics—an analysis of the credit crisis and the steps needed to ensure that it never happens again In August of 2007, the debt-fueled bubble that had created an illusion of prosperity across the western world burst, leadi...

Jewish Medicine: What It Is and Why It Matters

Although conventional wisdom holds that there's no such thing as "Jewish Medicine," Dr. Nevins disagrees, suggesting it's not so much what Jewish doctors have done as why. For example, in premodern times Jewish doctors viewed their work as a sacred calling in collaboration with God. Later, there oft...

A TALE OF TWO "VILLAGES" : VINELAND AND SKILLMAN, NJ: The unknown story of New Jersey's major role in promoting eugenics theory which indirectly led ... Americans and to mass murder in Nazi Germany.

Early in the 20th century New Jersey was one of the first states to segregate mentally ill patients in state- run institutions. Administrators and scientists at the Vineland Training School and Skillman Village for Epileptics did research which validated the theory that "feeblemindedness" was inheri...

Dan McCarthy

Brooklyn-based painter Dan McCarthy, who was born in Honolulu in 1962, has received plenty of critical attention for his recent canvases--thinly painted, almost gouachy, two-dimensional compositions that feature surfers on rainbow-covered waves, bikini girls on skateboards, scuba divers submerged in...

Still More Meanderings in Medical History: The Third of a Trilogy of Meanderings in Medical History.

As with the previous two books in this trilogy of "meanderings" the current collection contains essays about medical practice and the lives of various physicians at different times and places.

Meanderings In New Jersey's Medical History