Flesh Made New out today!
Today was the launch of a new book by Prof. John Rasko and Dr. Carl Power: “Flesh Made New: The Unnatural History and Broken Promise of Stem Cells”.
The book is now available to purchase here.
For decades, we've been anticipating the dawn of regenerative medicine. Again and again, we've been promised that stem cells will soon cure just about every ill imaginable. If not tomorrow, then the next day, or the day after that, and so on. We're still waiting.
This book is an antidote to hype and a salve to sooth the itch for stem-cell salvation. In it, Professor John Rasko, a leading physician-scientist, and writer-historian Carl Power take us on a wild historical tour of this scandal-prone field. They expose all the dirty little secrets that the hype merchants prefer to ignore - the blunders and setbacks, confusions and delusions, tricks and lies.
Is there any good news? Which of the many promises of stem-cell research have been kept? And what of the future? Rasko and Power insist that we can only know where we're going if we have a sense of where we've been. Their study tears down the hype surrounding stem cells in order to reveal what's still worth hoping for.
Prof. Rasko’s and Dr. Power have done several radio interviews about the book - Listen below.
ABC Radio National Breakfast with Fran Kelly. Read the related article on the RN Breakfast website.
Radio NZ - nine to noon with Kathryn Ryan. Read the related article on the Radio NZ website.
ABC Radio Sydney - Afternoons with James Valentine
ABC Radio Melbourne - Drive with Rafael Epstein
ABC Radio Illawarra - Drive with Lindsay McDougall
ABC Radio - Conversations with Sarah Kanowski. Read the related article on the ABC website.
Authors Dr. Power & Prof. Rasko
