by Janet Chan Who am I? Where did I come from? These questions are ones that many adoptees may have found themselves asking. In Connecting Threads: Five Siblings Lost and Found, EM Blake shares her personal experience of being adopted and finding answers to these compelling questions. Blake takes us on a journey through her early life with her adoptive family to the discovery of her biological family as an adult. Along with the questions of identity, she also addresses the challenges of not knowing your family medical history. Removed from her home at an early age, Blake was adopted… Read More
Medicine: A Graphic History
by J.T.H. Connor Sweeping surveys of the history of medicine exist in many formats. Some are works of serious scholarship that are ponderous tomes, while others, equally serious, are identified by their authors as “very short” or “scandalously short” introductions to the subject. Yet another species affording a panoramic perspective takes a cynical spin on medical history by highlighting the foibles and follies of doctors through the ages; an off-beat offshoot of this genre are books that are generously illustrated with humorous cartoons and witty text that inform readers as much as they also lampoon the medical profession. Medicine: A… Read More
