B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsanimals / anthropology / culture / Doctor / evolution / fossils / History / medicine / non-fiction / paleontology2 Comments
A lively, illustrated exploration of the 500-million-year history of bone, a touchstone for understanding vertebrate life and human culture. Human bone is versatile and entirely unique: it repairs itself without scarring, it’s lightweight but responds to stresses, and it’s durable enough to survive for millennia. In Bones, orthopedic surgeon Roy ... more >
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Featured on CBS This Morning, Men’s Health, The Washington Post, Buzzfeed, and The Dr. Oz Show Two top doctors present a comprehensive, light-hearted guide for the hypochondriac in all of us. Christopher Kelly, MD, and Marc Eisenberg, MD, FACC, are both highly accomplished physicians and health experts from UNC Health ... more >
B Reviews Category / Book Reviewsbrain / brain chemistry / Brain Damage / medicine / non-fiction / scienceNo Comments
Sleep. Memory. Pleasure. Fear. Language. We experience these things every day, but how do our brains create them? Your Brain, Explained is a personal tour around your gray matter. Neuroscientist Marc Dingman gives you a crash course in how your brain works and explains the latest research on the brain ... more >
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As a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Tells a Story, and an inspiration and adviser for the hit Fox TV drama House, M.D., Lisa Sanders has seen it all. And yet she is often confounded by the cases she describes in ... more >
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In State of the Heart, Dr. Haider Warraich takes readers inside the ER, inside patients’ rooms, and inside the history and science of cardiac disease. State of the Heart traces the entire arc of the heart, from the very first time it was depicted on stone tablets, to a future ... more >
Miscmedicine / organ donation2 Comments
Recently I reviewed “When Death Becomes Life” in which a transplant surgeon talks about his job and the history of organ donation. Despite the title, transplants are also procured from living donors and here’s a wonderful story. Single Dad Gets Kidney – Last year a total stranger offered a kidney ... more >
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