December 2024 Issue Patricia Fara A Viper a Day The Apothecary’s Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity By Karen Bloom Gevirtz LR
April 2023 Issue Dan Saladino Fork in the Road Ravenous: How to Get Ourselves and Our Planet into Shape By Henry Dimbleby with Jemima Lewis Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food… and Why Can’t We Stop? By Chris van Tulleken LR
July 2018 Issue Sara Wheeler No One is Immune Natural Causes: Life, Death and the Illusion of Control By Barbara Ehrenreich LR
June 2018 Issue Anthony Daniels Prescription Pushers Too Many Pills: How Too Much Medicine is Endangering Our Health and What We Can Do About It By James Le Fanu LR
June 2018 Issue Mick Brown Trip Advisors How to Change Your Mind: Exploring the New Science of Psychedelics By Michael Pollan
April 2018 Issue Rob Ewing Behind the Stethoscope Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors By Caroline Elton LR
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
September 2017 Issue Adrian Woolfson Raising Awareness Into the Grey Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death By Adrian Owen LR
March 2017 Issue Richard Canning Anatomy of a Disease How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS By David France LR
December 2016 Issue Mike Jay The Drugs Do Work Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment By A J Lees
September 2016 Issue Wendy Moore Blessed Are the Bacteria I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life By Ed Yong
October 2008 Issue Sarah Wise On the Slab The Making of Mr Gray’s Anatomy: Bodies, Books, Fortune, Fame By Ruth Richardson LR
July 2012 Issue Thomas Levenson Hearts and Minds Circulation: William Harvey’s Revolutionary Idea By Thomas Wright LR
August 2013 Issue Simon Singh Modern Mountebanks Killing Us Softly: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine By Paul Offit LR
October 2013 Issue Anthony Daniels After the Iron Lung Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio By Gareth Williams LR
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