Barry Werth Explained

Barry Werth is an American author and journalist. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, GQ, the Smithsonian,^[1] and the MIT Technology Review.^[2] He has also served as an instructor in journalism at Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and Boston University.

Werth received a Stonewall Book Award in 2002 for The Scarlet Professor, his biography of Newton Arvin, a literary critic who was publicly forced into retirement in 1960 during an anti-pornography drive by the US Post Office.^[3] The book was later adapted into the documentary film The Great Pink Scare,^[4] and as a 2017 opera by Eric Sawyer and Harley Erdman based on Werth's book.^[5]

His book Damages is commonly used as a case study for teaching medical malpractice in law schools.^{[6] [7]}

Bibliography

• The Billion-Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug (1995)
• Damages: One Family's Legal Struggles in the World of Medicine (1998)
• The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal (2002)
• The Architecture and Design of Man and Woman: The Marvel of the Human Body, Revealed (2004) (with Alexander Tsiaras)
• 31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today (2006)
• Banquet at Delmonico's: Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America (2009)
• Book: Werth, Barry . 2014 . The Antidote: Inside the World of New Pharma . New York . Simon & Schuster . 9781451655667 . 859375019.

See also

• Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Notes and References

1. Web site: Barry Werth. 2014. Simon & Schuster. 2014-01-25. 2018-01-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20180109163230/http://www.simonspeakers.com/BarryWerth. dead.
2. Web site: Barry Werth and The Antidote: Reporting from Inside the World of Big Pharma. 2014. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2014-01-25.
3. Web site: Stonewall Book Award Winners . Page . Elaine Fetyko . May 5, 2008 . Elmhurst College Library . 2014-01-23 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110204170157/http://www.elmhurst.edu/~sage/stonewall.html . 2011-02-04 .
4. Web site: Filmmaker Q&A: The Great Pink Scare. Yourgrau. Tug. 2014. Independent Television Services. 2014-01-23.
5. Karen Brown, "Opera Revisits 57-Year-Old 'Smut' Scandal At Smith College", WBUR, July 10, 2017.
6. Web site: Teaching Real Torts: Using Barry Werth's Damages in the Law School Classroom. Baker. Tom. 2002. Nevada Law Journal. 2014-01-25.
7. Web site: Damages: Using a Case Study to Teach Law, Lawyering, and Dispute Resolution. Daily. Melody. 2004. Journal of Dispute Resolution. 2014-01-25.