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The best of the Best American Science Writing / introduction by Jerome Groopman ; series editor Jesse Cohen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : HarperCollins, 2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 400 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780061875007 (pbk.)
  • 0061875007 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 500
LOC classification:
  • Q 162 B554 2010
Contents:
2000. When doctors make mistakes / Atul Gawande -- The Biotech death of Jesse Gelsinger / Sheryl Gay Stolberg -- 2001. Science, guided by ethics, can lift up the poor / Freeman J. Dyson -- Darwin's influence on modern thought / Ernst Mayr -- 2002. Dr. Daedalus / Lauren Slater -- The Soft science of dietary fat / Gary Taubes -- 2003. Common ground / Danielle Ofri -- The Melody lingers on / Floyd Skloot -- 2004. What Galileo saw / Michael Benson -- Columbia's last flight / William Langewiesche -- 2005. The Genome in black and white (and gray) / Robin Marantz Henig -- Darwin or not / David Quammen -- 2006. Mighty white of you / Jack Hitt -- Your move / Tom Mueller -- 2007. The Man on the table was 97, but he devised the surgery / Lawrence K. Altman -- Truth and consequences / Jennifer Couzin-Frankel -- 2008. What's normal? / Jerome Groopman -- Facing life with a lethal gene / Amy Harmon -- 2009. The Final frontier / Karen Olsson -- Birdbrain / Margaret Talbot.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) Q 162 B554 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000077081

"Ten years of the series"--cover.

2000. When doctors make mistakes / Atul Gawande -- The Biotech death of Jesse Gelsinger / Sheryl Gay Stolberg -- 2001. Science, guided by ethics, can lift up the poor / Freeman J. Dyson -- Darwin's influence on modern thought / Ernst Mayr -- 2002. Dr. Daedalus / Lauren Slater -- The Soft science of dietary fat / Gary Taubes -- 2003. Common ground / Danielle Ofri -- The Melody lingers on / Floyd Skloot -- 2004. What Galileo saw / Michael Benson -- Columbia's last flight / William Langewiesche -- 2005. The Genome in black and white (and gray) / Robin Marantz Henig -- Darwin or not / David Quammen -- 2006. Mighty white of you / Jack Hitt -- Your move / Tom Mueller -- 2007. The Man on the table was 97, but he devised the surgery / Lawrence K. Altman -- Truth and consequences / Jennifer Couzin-Frankel -- 2008. What's normal? / Jerome Groopman -- Facing life with a lethal gene / Amy Harmon -- 2009. The Final frontier / Karen Olsson -- Birdbrain / Margaret Talbot.

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