The Great War’s miracle worker
How one surgeon’s pioneering treatment healed soldiers with the most disfiguring injuries of the First World War.
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Henry Marsh’s Diary: how will self-driving cars navigate British politeness?
I had visions of autonomous cars paralysed at street ends, unable to compute whether to be English and give…
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The Beautiful Cure: The lethal complexity of our immune systems
How immunology – the study of the immune system – went from a marginal area of clinical medicine to…
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The River of Consciousness looks back on Oliver Sacks’s life in writing
Nature is always more complex than we expect, and Sacks’s gift is to convey this sense of wonder.
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Robert Sapolsky’s Behave is a tour de force of science writing
You will learn more about human nature than in any other book I can think of.
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Into the Grey Zone: can one really be conscious while in a coma?
Neuropsychologist Adrian Owen's work raises many more questions than it answers.
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The politics of health: a clear-eyed account of inequality and the NHS
The Health Gap: the Challenge of an Unequal World by Michael Marmot reviewed.
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A fate worse than death: when modern medicine’s instinct to save is misplaced
When is it better to die than live?
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Growing old disgracefully: a deconstruction of death
Atul Gawande argues that medicine has skewed our attitude to mortality. The neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reviews.
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