The Discovery of Insulin. "A remarkably illuminating recounting of this saga," writes the NEJM reviewer (February 28, 2008, pg. 975)

Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World. The JAMA reviewer writes: "History, science, personalities, and public health are successfully intermingled in this lively book. The result is a chain of adventure stories with all the requisite elements: peculiar scientists and heroic physicians, evil bacteria and viruses, overwhelming odds, and a cast of millions." (12 diseases = smallpox, bubonic plague, cholera, tuberculosis, syphilis, influenza, malaria, yellow fever, AIDS, Irish potato blight, hemophilia, and porphyria). Reviewed in JAMA, December 26, 2007, pg. 2919.

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain...Neurologist and popular writer Oliver Sacks provides fascinating neurological anecdotes, skillful storytelling, and a poignant collection of evidence that music has powerful influence on the brain. Reviewed in Science, 25 January, 2008, pg. 413.

The Soul in the Brain: The Cerebral Basis of Language, Art, and Belief...The JAMA reviewer notes, "It is no small task to introduce, even briefly, summary histories of philosophy, art, language, neuroanatomy, neurosciences, and psychiatric specialties and then to weave them into a coherent discussion. To this end, (the author) is wonderfully successful." Reviewed in JAMA, August 22/29, 2007, page 930.

The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera...the story of one of the great sagas of medical history, says the JAMA reviewer (JAMA, June 13, 2007, pg. 2532).

Penicillin...a remarkable history of the miracle drug. Reviewed in Science, August 24, 2007, pg 1037