Andrew Benedict-Nelson

Andrew Benedict-Nelson is an author and consultant based in Gardner, Kansas. His work has addressed the social determinants of health, how to improve patient experiences, and the professional development of nurses. He is currently working on a book that will help readers develop more effective strategies for social change.

Articles

Cigarette Stories
Andrew Benedict-Nelson considers "The Cigarette: A Political History" by Sarah Milov....
Andrew Benedict-NelsonDec 6, 2019
Everybody Hurts
Travis Rieder’s “In Pain” provides us with a bioethics that is not passively analytical, but peacefully agitative....
Andrew Benedict-NelsonOct 25, 2019
- Memoir
- Science & Technology
Rethinking the Invisible: Philip Ball’s Historical Account
In "Invisible," Philip Ball addresses the relationship between scientific inquiry and our beliefs about the world beyond our senses....
Andrew Benedict-NelsonMay 21, 2015
- History
- Science & Technology
Woman out of Time: On “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”
The latest in the "man out of time" storytelling tradition, "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" subverts the form, skewering the absurdity of our era....
Andrew Benedict-NelsonApr 6, 2015
- Television
Political Revolutionaries, International Conspiracies, and the Fearful, Frenzied Elites
Constitutional reformers, religious dissenters, and simple political enemies....
Andrew Benedict-NelsonMar 30, 2015
- History
- Politics and Economics
The Fight for America’s Classrooms
The Teacher Wars is a lively case history of the nation’s teaching corps....
Andrew Benedict-NelsonNov 15, 2014
- Nonfiction
Zen and the Art of Double Entry Bookkeeping: On Accounting and Accountability
If we want more accountability in our public and private institutions, we must also ask more of ourselves, according to Andrew Soll....
Andrew Benedict-NelsonApr 29, 2014
How to See the World As It Isn’t: Thinking with the Life of Louis Agassiz
A mid-19th-century scientist can teach us a lot about how to see the world as it isn’t....
Andrew Benedict-NelsonFeb 17, 2014
What Can We Learn from Jared Diamond?
Jared Diamond is undoubtedly of the cosmographic bent. We get to be like Montaigne, interpreting this traveler’s testimony according to our own purposes....
Andrew Benedict-NelsonAug 22, 2013
What's In a Prediction? On Nate Silver and the Science of Probability
I PREDICT THAT ONE DAY Nate Silver will be remembered for doing something more consequential than forecasting the winners of presidential elections. Do I have a sophisticated statistical model like Silver’s FiveThirtyEight backing my prediction? No, nor do I ...
Andrew Benedict-NelsonFeb 20, 2013