The Best of the Best American Science Writing
by Cohen, JesseFormat: Paperback
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Summary
For a decade, Ecco has published the most outstanding science writing in America, collected in highly acclaimed annual volumes edited by some of the most impressive and most important names in science and science writing today: James Gleick, Timothy Ferris, Matt Ridley, Oliver Sacks, Dava Sobel, Alan Lightman, Atul Gawande, Gina Kolata, Sylvia Nasar, and Natalie Angier.Now series editor Jesse Cohen invites the previous guest editors to select their favorite essays for this one-of-a-kind anthology. The result is an outstanding compendium-the best science writing of the new millennium, featuring an introduction by the series' 2010 editor and New York Times bestselling author of How Doctors Think, Jerome Groopman.
Author Biography
Jerome Groopman is the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and author of four books, most recently Anatomy of Hope and the New York Times bestseller How Doctors Think. He has been a staff writer in medicine and biology for the New Yorker since 1998. Jesse Cohen is a writer and freelance editor who lives in New York City.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. ix |
| 2000 | |
| When Doctors Make Mistakes | p. 30 |
| The Biotech Death of Jesse Gelsinger | p. 30 |
| 2001 | |
| Science, Guided by Ethics, Can Lift Up the Poor | p. 47 |
| Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought | p. 51 |
| 2002 | |
| Lauren Slater | p. 65 |
| The Soft Science of Dietary Fat | p. 89 |
| 2003 | |
| Common Ground | p. 115 |
| The Melody Lingers On | p. 126 |
| 2004 | |
| What Galileo Saw | p. 139 |
| Columbia's Last Flight | p. 153 |
| 2005 | |
| The Genome in Black and White (aid Gray) | p. 211 |
| Darwin or Not | p. 225 |
| 2006 | |
| Mighty White of You | p. 243 |
| Your Move | p. 278 |
| 2007 | |
| The Man on the Table Was 97, But He Devised the Surgery | p. 295 |
| Truth and Consequences | p. 306 |
| 2008 | |
| What's Normal? | p. 319 |
| Facing Life with a Lethal Gene | p. 333 |
| 2009 | |
| The Final Frontier | p. 351 |
| Birdbrain | p. 365 |
| About the Contributors | p. 389 |
| Permissions | p. 399 |
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