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26. Informed consent is the framing, as displayed by widely heralded author of "On Immunity," Eula Biss.

Thu Mar 26, 2015, 08:36 PM

Mar 2015

2015:

https://www.facebook.com/ayearofbooks

A Year of Books
February 18 ·

Our fourth book is On Immunity by Eula Biss.

https://www.facebook.com/OnImmunity
https://www.facebook.com/ayearofbooks/posts/845768425469088

2013:

http://harpers.org/archive/2013/01/sentimental-medicine/

From the January 2013 issue
ESSAY

Sentimental Medicine (FULL PDF)
By Eula Biss

First sentence...

ALL (above) from comments about a retracted On Immunity book review by Jennifer Margulis, daughter of famed biologist Lynn Margulis (again, from comments):

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/science/lynn-margulis-trailblazing-theorist-on-evolution-dies-at-73.html
http://www.ageofautism.com/2015/03/control-all-delete-part-3-how-a-critical-review-of-a-book-on-how-great-vaccination-is-got-pulled-by-an-publication-that-emp.html

Apparently, Jennifer Margulis comes from the world of evolutionary biology (her mother, a "trailblazing theorist on evolution&quot , Dr. Carl Sagan (her mother's first husband), famous "skeptics" (her mother's peers). Well, well.

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