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INHERITANCE by Sharon Moalem

May 21, 2014

A DOCTOR AND GENETICS RESEARCHER’S informal overview of how our environment can affect our gene expression. SOLID B

Grade: SOLID B

INHERITANCE: HOW OUR GENES CHANGE OUR LIVES---AND HOW OUR LIVES CHANGE OUR GENES
Grand Central Publishing
2014

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KORE, by Andrzej Szczeklik (translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

January 30, 2013

ELOQUENT, COMPASSIONATE WORK by a Polish physician and researcher links medicine with the arts and humanities.

Grade: A MINUS

KORE: ON SICKNESS, THE SICK, AND THE SEARCH FOR THE SOUL OF MEDICINE
Counterpoint
2012

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STRAIGHT, by Hanne Blank

July 5, 2012

FASCINATING, DEEPLY RESEARCHED account of the creation of “heterosexuality” as a medical and legal category.

Grade: A MINUS

STRAIGHT: THE SURPRISINGLY SHORT HISTORY OF HETEROSEXUALITY
Beacon Press
2012

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THE FOREVER FIX, by Ricki Lewis

April 7, 2012

INSIDE GENE THERAPY research and clinical trials, with a focus on pioneering young patients and their outcomes.

Grade: SOLID B

THE FOREVER FIX: GENE THERAPY AND THE BOY WHO SAVED IT
St. Martin's Press
2012

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MEDICAL MUSES, by Asti Hustvedt

June 7, 2011

ENGROSSING HIDDEN HISTORY of three 19th-century Frenchwomen whose cases inspired modern neurology, psychology.

Grade: B PLUS

MEDICAL MUSES: HYSTERIA IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY PARIS
W. W. Norton & Company
2011

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