Barry Werth
Barry Werth is an American author and journalist. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ, the Smithsonian,[1] and the MIT Technology Review.[2] He has also served as an instructor in journalism at Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and Boston University.[1]
Werth received a Stonewall Book Award in 2002 for The Scarlet Professor, his biography of Newton Arvin, a literary critic who was publicly forced into retirement in 1960 during an anti-pornography drive by the US Post Office.[3] The book was later adapted into the documentary film The Great Pink Scare.[4] His book Damages is commonly used as a case study for teaching medical malpractice in law schools.[5][6]
Bibliography
- The Billion-Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug (1995)
- Damages: One Family's Legal Struggles in the World of Medicine (1998)
- The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal (2002)
- The Architecture and Design of Man and Woman: The Marvel of the Human Body, Revealed (2004) (with Alexander Tsiaras)
- 31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today (2006)
- Banquet at Delmonico's: Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America (2009)
- Werth, Barry (2014). The Antidote: Inside the World of New Pharma. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781451655667. OCLC 859375019.
See also
References
- 1 2 "Barry Werth". Simon & Schuster. 2014. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
- ↑ "Barry Werth and The Antidote: Reporting from Inside the World of Big Pharma". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2014. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
- ↑ Page, Elaine Fetyko (May 5, 2008). "Stonewall Book Award Winners". Elmhurst College Library. Archived from the original on 2011-02-04. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
- ↑ Yourgrau, Tug (2014). "Filmmaker Q&A: The Great Pink Scare". Independent Television Services. Retrieved 2014-01-23.
- ↑ Baker, Tom (2002). "Teaching Real Torts: Using Barry Werth's Damages in the Law School Classroom". Nevada Law Journal. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
- ↑ Daily, Melody (2004). "Damages: Using a Case Study to Teach Law, Lawyering, and Dispute Resolution". Journal of Dispute Resolution. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
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