May 2023 Issue Iain Bamforth Getting High, Tripping Out Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind By Mike Jay LR
November 2022 Issue Patricia Fara Life’s Building Blocks The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human By Siddhartha Mukherjee LR
December 2019 Issue Cathy Gere All in the Brain? Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness By Anne Harrington LR
October 2019 Issue A J Lees What’s in the 7 Up? Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough By Walter A Brown
June 2017 Issue Manjit Kumar The Beat Goes On The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations By Thomas Morris LR
March 2017 Issue Manjit Kumar Going Viral The Vaccine Race: How Scientists Used Human Cells to Combat Killer Viruses By Meredith Wadman
June 2016 Issue Sumit Paul-Choudhury Recipe of Life The Gene: An Intimate History By Siddhartha Mukherjee LR
April 2016 Issue John Gribbin Half-Life Stories Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation By Timothy J Jorgensen LR
May 2004 Issue Alan Rafferty Mucus And Marmite The Mould in Dr Florey's Coat: The Remarkable True Story of the Penicilin Miracle By Eric Lax LR
February 2009 Issue Anthony Daniels Doctor, Doctor Taking the Medicine: A Short History of Medicine’s Beautiful Idea and Our Difficulty Swallowing It By Druin Burch LR
June 2008 Issue Richard Barber Bones and Buboes The Black Death: An Intimate History of the Plague By John Hatcher LR
July 2012 Issue Thomas Levenson Hearts and Minds Circulation: William Harvey’s Revolutionary Idea By Thomas Wright LR
February 2005 Issue James Le Fanu Pickled Parts The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, the Father of Modern Surgery By Wendy Moore LR
October 2012 Issue David Bodanis Discovery Channels Prize Fight: The Race and the Rivalry to be the First in Science By Morton A Meyers LR
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