Sheila M. Rothman is Professor of Public Health at Columbia
University. Her books include Living in the Shadow of Death.
Her articles in the New York Review of Books and other periodicals,
often cowritten with David Rothman, address human rights and
medicine. She is now investigating the social and ethical
implications of linking race and ethnicity to genetic disease.
David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine
and History at Columbia University. His books have explored the
history of prisons and mental hospitals and the impact of bioethics
and law on medicine. He has recently been named president of the
Institute on Medicine as a Profession, funded by George Soros.
“The authors shrewdly look backward at the history of medical
innovation over the past century. . . Their prescription for
society is wise” --The New York Times
“Is being short a medical problem that warrants treatment? What
about the diminished strength that accompanies lower testosterone
levels in men as they age? . . . These are among the provocative
questions that . . . a pair of eminent medical historians from
Columbia University thoughtfully explore in their new book.” --The
Washington Post
“A thoroughly documented and readable book. ‘What science creates
medicine rapidly dispenses,’ [the Rothmans] warn, and this
uncritical acceptance by both physician and consumer is precisely
the problem.” --Sherwin Nuland, The New York Review of Books
“An important contribution to the debate about medical enhancement”
—The New England Journal of Medicine
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