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A Family History of Illness

Memory as Medicine

By Brett L. Walker

While in the ICU with a near-fatal case of pneumonia, Brett Walker was asked, “Do you have a family history of illness?”—a standard and deceptively simple question that for Walker, a professional historian, took on...

The Lost Wolves of Japan

By Brett Walker. Foreword by William Cronon

Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that needed to be killed....

Toxic Archipelago

A History of Industrial Disease in Japan

By Brett Walker. Foreword by William Cronon

Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships -- and are imperiled by them as well....