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Diane Purkiss
The Hand of Odd
Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic
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Thomas Morris
Diagrams Dissected
Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image
By Jack Hartnell
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Dmitri Levitin
Making His Bones
Andreas Vesalius: Anatomy and the World of Books
By Sachiko Kusukawa
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July 2024 Issue
Thomas Morris
Reader’s Digest
Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut
By Elsa Richardson
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December 2022 Issue
Tim Lang
Health Nuts
Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well
By Tim Spector
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May 2022 Issue
Rachel Fraser
Come As You Are
Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body
By Clare Chambers
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September 2021 Issue
Simon Yarrow
Does He Really Have a Beard?
God: An Anatomy
By Francesca Stavrakopoulou
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May 2021 Issue
Wendy Moore
All in the Mind?
The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
By Suzanne O’Sullivan
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April 2021 Issue
Helen Bynum
The End of Babies?
Count Down: How Our Modern World is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race
By Shanna H Swan, with Stacey Colino
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Paul Broks
Changes of Mind
The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention
By Simon Baron-Cohen
November 1989 Issue
Colin Wilson
Compliments to Author
Superself: The Hidden Powers Within Ourselves
By Ian Wilson
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August 2019 Issue
Helen Bynum
Skin & Bones
The Secret Life of Bones: Their Origins, Evolution & Fate
By Brian Switek
The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across Our Surface
By Monty Lyman
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May 2019 Issue
Sarah Goldsmith
O Blubber Mine
Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life
By Christopher E Forth
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April 2019 Issue
Alan Hollinghurst
Gazing at the Moon
Seen from Behind: Perspectives on the Male Body and Renaissance Art
By Patricia Lee Rubin
February 2019 Issue
Christopher Ross
Growth Industry
The Truth About Fat
By Anthony Warner
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November 2018 Issue
Tim Smith-Laing
The Venerable Bod
Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages
By Jack Hartnell
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October 2018 Issue
Wendy Moore
Liquid of Life
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood
By Rose George
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September 2018 Issue
Joan Smith
What Doesn’t Kill You Hurts Like Hell
Ask Me about My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s Pain
By Abby Norman
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February 2018 Issue
Anthony Daniels
For Good or Ill
The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body's Natural Defences
By Daniel M Davis
The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson's Cancer Con, and the Darkness at the Heart of the Wellness Industry
By Beau Donelly & Nick Toscano
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December 2017 Issue
Rose George
Life After Death?
Insider Trading: How Mortuaries, Medicine and Money Have Built a Global Market in Human Cadaver Parts
By Naomi Pfeffer
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