The Rapids: Ways of Looking at Mania (Part 2)
In a new blog series to highlight the ways in which mental health is depicted and discussed in today’s world, Sam Twyford-Moore talks to fellow Australian author Kylie Maslen.
September 30, 2020
Health & Medicine
The Rapids: Ways of Looking at Mania (Part 1)
In a new blog series to highlight the ways in which mental health is depicted and discussed in today’s world, Sam Twyford-Moore talks to fellow Australian author Mia Walsch.
September 15, 2020
Re-Envisioning Cell Theory (Part 3): Sublime Slime Molds
In the final part of her blog series, Sherrie L. Lyons discusses the fascinating world of slime molds, the unlikely superhero within the ecosystem.
Re-Envisioning Cell Theory (Part 2)
In the second part of her blog series, Sherrie Lyons looks at the current pandemic and explains why the majority of viruses and microbes are not only not harmful, they are essential to our health.
August 18, 2020
Re-Envisioning Cell Theory (Part 1)
In a new three-part blog series, author Sherrie L. Lyons discusses her new book and delves into the history of cell theory. In part one, she examines the question: “What makes something alive?”
July 28, 2020
The Critical Importance of Public Health – Canada’s Response
Raisa B. Deber writes on the blog about the critical importance of public health, in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak and she reflects on the way Canada’s health care system has been coping.
May 13, 2020
How to Cope with Impossible Things (like COVID-19)
Robert Maunder and Jonathan Hunter both work at Mount Sinai Hospital and have first-hand experience of working in the midst of COVID-19. In this post, they give a first-hand account of what the current pandemic looks like from inside a hospital.
May 6, 2020
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Systems Change for Health in the Anthropocene
Does the current coronavirus outbreak provide us with a window of opportunity for a more balanced, healthy, and sustainable way of living? Katharine Zywert, co-editor of Health in the Anthropocene, addresses this question in our latest blog post.
April 23, 2020
Isolation Reading for the Week of April 6
Here at UTP, we’ve decided to bring you some great books chosen by our staff for your work-from-home reading. Check in with us every Monday for some fantastic book recommendations. Kicking off our weekly staff picks is our marketing manager of humanities and trade books, Anna Maria Del Col.
April 6, 2020
Epidemics and the Modern World
Epidemics and the Modern World surveys the role of significant infectious diseases in history from the Black Death of the fourteenth century to the Zika virus in the early twenty-first century. In light of the recent coronavirus outbreak, author Mitchell L. Hammond discusses how epidemics are a distinctively modern problem as well as a topic of historical interest.
February 26, 2020