Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease by Sharon Moalem

Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease

Sharon Moalem with Jonathan Prince

372 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction health science informative medium-paced

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Joining the ranks of modern myth busters, Dr. Sharon Moalem turns our current understanding of illness on its head and challenges us to fundamentally change the way we think about our bodies, our health, and our relationship to just about every ot...

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