Nothing Becomes Something
Thomas Laqueur: Pathography, 22 September 2016
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi.
Bodley Head, 228 pp., £12.99, February 2016,978 1 84792 367 7 Show More
by Paul Kalanithi.
Bodley Head, 228 pp., £12.99, February 2016,
“... model came along in 1972 the tools used were Kaplan-Meier estimators, developed in 1958 after Edward Kaplan, working at Bell Labs on the problem of vacuum tube survival in transatlantic telephone cable repeaters, was put in touch with Paul Meier, who was working on cancer survival using a similar method.) The use of these techniques in medicine and in the ... ”