Nathaniel Comfort
Assoc. Prof., Dept. of History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
Biomedicine, 20th century, genetics, eugenics, evolution, popularization of science, oral history
Also blogs at: http://genotopia.scienceblog.com
Nathaniel Comfort is the author of The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock’s Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control (Harvard, 2001) and editor of The Panda’s Black Box: Opening Up the Intelligent Design Controversy (Johns Hopkins, 2007). His essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Science, American Scientist, National Public Radio, Natural History, The Believer, and the Utne Reader. His current book, a history American medical genetics, will be published as soon as possible with Yale University Press.
Blog Posts
Putting the person in personalized medicine
July 25, 2011
Why should we care…? IV. Toward a poetics of HSMT
April 22, 2011
Why should we care…? III. Maybe we shouldn’t
April 11, 2011
Why should we care…? II. History as a way of knowing
April 06, 2011
Who cares about the history of science?
March 24, 2011
The supernormal and the pathological
February 28, 2011
Euphenics, Algeny, and Orthobiosis
February 23, 2011
Rock star genetics: the 27GP
December 16, 2010
Charles Babbage, Eat Your Heart Out
December 10, 2010
The Panopticon Inverted
November 30, 2010
“His chromosomes made him do it” — again
November 19, 2010
Sequence just wants to be free
November 01, 2010
What are the lessons of the recent history of biomedicine?
October 13, 2010
Philadelphia story
September 28, 2010
Medicalizing Violence
September 17, 2010
Personal genomics: “measures of intelligence”
September 09, 2010
The Name’s Wilkins. Maurice Wilkins.
August 26, 2010