‘Fast-food medicine’: inside the hell of US healthcare
Tom Mueller’s exposé of America’s dialysis industry is a grim tale of corruption, cost-cutting and contempt for ordinary people
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Tom Mueller’s exposé of America’s dialysis industry is a grim tale of corruption, cost-cutting and contempt for ordinary people
Most viruses do no harm to humans – and, as this fascinating book explains, a large class of them might even prove our saviours
Public health heroes like Waldemar Haffkine were often treated as outsiders – as Simon Schama’s splendid history, Foreign Bodies, shows
Sci-fi tells us tech will wipe us out – but Michio Kaku’s Quantum Supremacy argues we should welcome its advances
In a beautifully written memoir, the surgeon reflects on his cancer diagnosis – and explains why you should exaggerate your pain to doctors
Keith Fisher's A Pipeline Runs Through It reminds us that this isn’t the first time dependence on Russian oil has had awful consequences
Laura Mersini-Houghton’s Before the Big Bang explores the theories of parallel dimensions, which have existed since Ancient Greece
Seemingly evil, wasps broke Darwin’s faith in a benevolent god. Now comes the pro-wasp propaganda: Seirian Sumner's new book, Endless Forms
Sam Knight's atmospheric book investigates a forgotten branch of psychiatry which sought to harness the power of spookily prophetic visions
This book covers horrific Nazi history and modern debates, but really excels at debunking the idea that complex traits can be lab engineered
Hormone injections were meant to be an affordable miracle treatment for diabetes. In the US, they now cost $1,000 a month. What went wrong?
From the hellish depths of the seabed to a tech billionaires’ showdown in space, science writers followed their stories to the extreme
Did Covid-19 jump to humans from animals, or was it pushed by scientists? This study pretends to be agnostic but ends up as sensationalism
It ruled the earth for a billion years – and it's making a comeback. Brace yourself for ‘a new era of slime’
Jackie Higgins's new book Sentient is filled with mind-blowing facts about how animals experience the world
Michael Lewis's The Premonition turns Covid into a fluid intellectual thriller – and argues we are still unprepared for 'the big one'