Stethoscope: A surprising investigation of a scientific instrument long at the pulse of medicine. This book explores the colorful past, present, and future of an instrument that is, quite literally, close to our hearts. The stethoscope has become the symbol of medicine itself—how did this come to be? What makes the stethoscope such a familiar yet charismatic object? Drawing from a range of fields including history, anthropology, science, technology, and sound studies, the book illustrates the variety of roles the stethoscope has played over time. It shows that the stethoscope is not, and has never been, a single entity. It is used to a variety of ends, serves several purposes, and is open to many interpretations. This variability is the key to the stethoscope’s enduring presence in the medical and popular imagination.
The US EPA took a major step toward protecting one of the world’s most important wild salmon fisheries in Bristol Bay, Alaska, by blocking a potentially catastrophic copper and gold mining project.
WWF and partners reviewed the use of more than 200,000 miles of Amazonian rivers by long-distance migratory fish and turtle species and river dolphins to map the most important routes.
WWF and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Global Maritime Crime Program have launched a new partnership to advance innovative knowledge-sharing to protect the waters around Ecuador.
