At the Limits of Cure Books Schoolteacher Adeline Barris comes south

Schoolteacher Adeline Barris comes south searching for her still enslaved mother and brother

offering a deeper understanding of how data is manipulated and results are obtained

A Winter's Rime looks to nature to find what it can teach us about bearing hardship and expanding our capacity to forgive―not just others

refused to accept her new stepmother

unofficial psychologist

At the Limits of Cure Books Schoolteacher Adeline Barris comes southDrawing on historical and ethnographic research on tuberculosis in India, Bharat Jayram Venkat explores what it means to be cured and what it means for a cure to be partial, temporary, or selectively effective. Can a history of cure be more than a history of how disease comes to an end? In 1950s Madras, an international team of researchers demonstrated that antibiotics were effective in treating tuberculosis. But just half a century later, reports out