Medicine & Health
Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America
Paperback
An incisive examination of bioethics and American healthcare, and their profound affects on American culture over the last sixty years.
Bones: Inside and Out
Hardback
A lively, illustrated exploration of the 500-million-year history of bone, a touchstone for understanding vertebrate life and human culture.
A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
Hardback
The fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring and the way we live.
Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough
Paperback
In this incredible story of a miracle drug and the forgotten pioneer who discovered it, Lithium pays “homage to... the renegade side of science” (NPR).
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
Paperback
Mind Fixers tells the history of psychiatry’s quest to understand the biological basis of mental illness and asks where we need to go from here.