{"id":77556,"date":"2014-04-18T12:12:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T16:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=77556"},"modified":"2024-07-01T15:59:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T19:59:48","slug":"goetz-90-brings-the-remedy-to-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/04\/18\/goetz-90-brings-the-remedy-to-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Goetz ’90 brings ‘The Remedy’ to campus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thomas Goetz, author of “The Remedy.” (Christopher Michel)<\/p><\/div>\n

Thomas Goetz, author of a new history that traces the intersecting careers of Arthur Conan Doyle and the scientist who showed the world that germs cause disease, offers a lecture at Bates at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 28, at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n

Sponsored by the Purposeful Work Initiative at Bates, the event is open to the public at no cost. A booksigning follows the talk. For more information, please contact 207-786-6128 or mcowan@bates.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The next evening, April 29, Goetz will appear with Bates President Clayton Spencer at a college event in Chicago, where the pair will discuss technology-driven innovations in higher education.<\/p>\n

The Bates talk by Goetz, a member of the college’s class of 1990, is titled From Science to Society: How the Germ Theory Helped Create Sherlock Holmes<\/em>. He’ll discuss The Remedy<\/em>, newly released by Gotham Books, which traces both how Dr. Robert Koch discovered the connection between microbes and disease — particularly tuberculosis — and Koch’s influence on a provincial English doctor, Conan Doyle.<\/p>\n

From his office in southern England, Conan Doyle admired the work of microbiologist Koch in Berlin, eventually adapting his scientific methods into his stories — most prominently, a new detective story featuring a character named Sherlock Holmes.<\/p>\n

The Remedy<\/em>, wrote Kirkus Reviews<\/em>, is “a beguiling real-life medical detective story.” The Washington Independent Review of Books<\/em> called it “a must-read for fans of medical history.” The Remedy<\/em> was chosen as a Best Book of the Month by iTunes and Amazon.<\/p>\n

Goetz is also the author of The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine<\/em> (Rodale Books), selected as Best Health Book of 2010 by the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

The former executive editor at WIRED Magazine<\/em>, Goetz is an entrepreneur and healthcare innovator as well as a writer. Co-founder of Iodine, a technology company researching ways to help consumers make better health decisions, Goetz also is entrepreneur-in-residence at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a philanthropy devoted singularly to the public’s health.<\/p>\n

Goetz was the executive producer for the award-winning Discovery Channel documentary Earth 2050: The Future of Energy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Goetz holds two master’s degrees, one in public health from the University of California, Berkeley, and one in American literature from the University of Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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