Thursday, January 06, 2005
Important Science Books for Doctors
It seems that the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) would have us believe that the medical text most worth reviewing during the week of November 18, 2004 was the following:
One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal by Alice Domurat Dreger. "Her primary subject is conjoined twins...but she also brings into the story people with cleft lips, dwarfs, giants, and hermaphrodites."
The second most important medical text was this:
Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi. "Leroi starts his discussion with famous 'monsters' in history...Famous examples include cases of conjoined twins, persons with hypertrichosis, and cyclops...He takes up examples of limb malformations, disorders of stature, and cases of intersex (more commonly known as hermpaphroditism)."
The third had to do with deaf people.
One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal by Alice Domurat Dreger. "Her primary subject is conjoined twins...but she also brings into the story people with cleft lips, dwarfs, giants, and hermaphrodites."
The second most important medical text was this:
Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi. "Leroi starts his discussion with famous 'monsters' in history...Famous examples include cases of conjoined twins, persons with hypertrichosis, and cyclops...He takes up examples of limb malformations, disorders of stature, and cases of intersex (more commonly known as hermpaphroditism)."
The third had to do with deaf people.
