By Xaq Frohlich, author of From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age
This post was originally published on The Conversation.
The Nutrition Facts label, that black and white information box found on nearly every packaged food product in the U.S. since 199...
By Charles Binkley, co-author of Encoding Bioethics: AI in Clinical Decision-Making
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being introduced into every sector of the human experience, and healthcare is no exception.
AI models were first used in radiology in the 1980s to aid radiologists in ...
By Tyler Loftus, co-author of Encoding Bioethics: AI in Clinical Decision-Making
Encoding Bioethics begins where all good healthcare stories begin: in the trenches of patient care. We have many professional roles in healthcare, but above all, we are surgeons. Providing the best patient...
What is it like to publish a book open-access with our Luminos program? Adrienne Strong, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida and author of Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania, discusses her award-winning book and her exp...
By Jennifer Hendricks, author of Essentially a Mother: A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and Motherhood
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and abolished the right to abortion, the court trivialized pregnancy and its impact on women’s lives. Nowhere in its opinio...
The new book In Her Hands: Women’s Fight against AIDS in the United States examines the various strategies women have utilized to fight for recognition as individuals vulnerable to and living with HIV/AIDS across multiple settings since the 1980s. Taking a new chronological and themati...
Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers centers the stories of mothers who migrated from Latin America, settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and overcame trauma and ongoing adversity to build futures for their children. These migrant mothers enact imperative ...
UC Press is thrilled to share that UC Press author Loretta Ross has been named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow.
Loretta J. Ross, Reproductive Justice and Human Rights Advocate, 2022 MacArthur Fellow, Northampton, MA
Loretta J. Ross is a reproductive justice and human rights activist reframi...
An inspiring humanitarian, doctor, and advocate of global health equity, Paul Farmer leaves behind an immense legacy. With the tragic news of his passing on February 21, 2022, our Executive Editor Naomi Schneider shares a tribute to his work.
By now you might have heard that our au...
By Paul U. Unschuld, translator of the Ben cao gang mu series
The Ben cao gang mu series is the first complete and annotated translation of the classic work, combining the original Chinese text and its English equivalent.
The Ben cao gang mu is a unique document based on literal...