Jennifer Vanderbes

Jul 26, 2023 | neh.gov | Jennifer Vanderbes

Late in the evening of Thursday, May 4, 1961, thirty-three-year-old William McBride got a call at his home in Blakehurst, Australia, to attend a complicated birth. McBride, an ambitious workaholic, ran one of the largest obstetrical practices in Sydney, Australia. He was on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A tall man with intense blue eyes and a beak of a nose, his brown wavy hair was always side-parted.

Jul 17, 2023 | harvardpublichealth.org | Jennifer Vanderbes |Clancy Martin |Richard J. Tofel

Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims, by Jennifer VanderbesIf Americans remember the tragedy of thalidomide, it’s as a story of the FDA and some courageous investigative reporters saving the United States from a public health disaster. The U.S. never approved the drug, which killed perhaps 10,000 children in Europe and caused thousands more to be born with serious birth defects.

Jun 29, 2023 | bookbrowse.com | Jennifer Vanderbes

Media Reviews Reader Reviews Page 1 of 1 There is 1 reader review for Wonder Drug Write your own review! Shetreadssoftly very highly recommended, thoroughly researched investigation Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims by Jennifer Vanderbes is a very highly recommended, thoroughly researched investigation of thalidomide in the US and beyond. Thalidomide represents a shocking and alarming example of pharmaceutical negligence. Many people know of the...

Jun 23, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Molly Guptill Manning |Nikhil Goyal |Jennifer Vanderbes |Yunte Huang

Joseph McGill and Herb Frazier. Hachette, $29 (352p) ISBN 978-0-306-82966-6As the founder of the Slave Dwelling Project, historic preservationist McGill has not only raised funds and awareness in support of the preservation of enslaved people’s dwellings but has stayed overnight in more than 200 of these structures across 25 states.

Jun 20, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Molly Guptill Manning |Nikhil Goyal |Jennifer Vanderbes |Yunte Huang

Cole Stangler. New Press, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-620-97782-8Journalist Stangler laments the shrinking of Paris’s vibrant, multiethnic, and working-class neighborhoods in his impassioned debut. For decades, the residents of these communities have been displaced by property developers and well-off, professional households.