We are pleased to announce the release of Daya Varma’s Reason and Medicine, Art and science of healing from antiquity to modern times.
This book is brilliant and wise, full of unexpected insights, and a delight to read! It is the kind of rare book that only a practising scientist with a deep awareness of medicine, therapeutics, politics and societies can write. A materialist framework is critical for understanding the history of any science, and this book is the most astute of any book I have read on the history of medicine. The science of physiology and the art of healing are merged in medicine, and the author truly grasps the significance of both.
— Professor Mriganka Sur, FRS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
