Why Us? - how science rediscovered the mystery of ourselves
by James Le Fanu
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New.
- ISBN 10
- 037542198X
- ISBN 13
- 9780375421983
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About This Item
6-1/2 x 9-1/2, 303 pp, index, notes, b/w illus.
Synopsis
For the past twenty years James Le Fanu has combined working as a doctor in general practice with contributing a weekly column to The Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Telegraph . His articles and reviews have appeared in the New Statesman, The Spectator , GQ , the British Medical Journal , and the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine . He has made original contributions to current controversies over the value of experiments on human embryos, environmentalism, dietary causes of diseases, and the misdiagnosis of non-accidental injury in children. His previous book, The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine , won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2001. He lives in England.
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- Bookseller
- edburynbooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25180
- Title
- Why Us? - how science rediscovered the mystery of ourselves
- Author
- James Le Fanu
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover in brown/beige boards, in color illus jacket.
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st US edition, 1st printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 037542198X
- ISBN 13
- 9780375421983
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- Science, Technology, Computers
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science, Technology, Computers;
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