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Frank Bowden

Frank Bowden, an infectious diseases physician, held the Foundation Chair of Medicine at the ANU Medical School and is now teaching Evidence-Based Medicine and Research Methods at Monash Rural Health. His book Gone Viral: The Germs that Share Our Lives is published by NewSouth.

Books & arts Frank Bowden 18 August 2023 Historian Simon Schama spent the pandemic researching smallpox, cholera and plague
Essays & reportage Frank Bowden 13 April 2016 Working out whether a treatment works, and for how many people, is trickier than it sounds, writes Frank Bowden. Here’s how you should go about doing it Essays & reportage Frank Bowden 11 March 2016 Vaccination is not only justified by self-interest. It is also an act of altruism From the archive Frank Bowden 17 December 2014 Atul Gawande has written an important book about the limits of medicine Essays & reportage Frank Bowden 27 August 2014 With one-in-two people dying within days of becoming ill, it’s little wonder that Ebola causes panic. But the real threat can only be assessed if we understand the history…
Books & arts Frank Bowden 20 June 2014 A physician decodes an unsettling memoir of life in and beyond the operating theatre Essays & reportage Frank Bowden 18 March 2014 Screening for cervical cancer saves lives every day, so surely men should be screened for prostate cancer? Unfortunately it’s a bit more complicated than that, writes… Books & arts Frank Bowden 24 February 2014 We need our doctors to feel, writes Frank Bowden, but not so much that they stop thinking Essays & reportage Frank Bowden 3 August 2011 Bacterial infections might move more slowly than heart attacks, writes Frank Bowden, but they can be just as deadly