David Brown , a journalist and a physician, was a staff writer for The Washington Post from 1991 to 2013.
David Brown
Pandemic Preparation
How ready was the government for what everyone knew was coming?
by David Brown | Friday, June 12, 2020
Mysterious Inheritance
A new biography of the founder of population genetics
by David Brown | Tuesday, June 02, 2020
Orwell’s Last Neighborhood
While envisioning the darkest of futures and grappling with mortality, the English writer retreated to an idyllic Scottish isle to write Nineteen Eighty-Four
by David Brown | Monday, March 04, 2019
Opioids and Paternalism
To help end the crisis, both doctors and patients need to find a new way to think about pain
by David Brown | Tuesday, September 05, 2017
What’s Wrong (and Right) with Science Journalism
Remarks to the University of Iowa on October 8, 2008, for the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry