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The Body A Guide for Occupants(115)
Author: Bill Bryson

   Cassidy, Tina. Birth: A History. London: Chatto & Windus, 2007.

   Challoner, Jack. The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life. Lewes: Ivy Press, 2015.

   Cobb, Matthew. The Egg & Sperm Race: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unravelled the Secrets of Sex, Life, and Growth. London: Free Press, 2006.

   Cole, Simon. Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.

   Collis, John Stewart. Living with a Stranger: A Discourse on the Human Body. London: Macdonald & Janes, 1978.

   Crawford, Dorothy H. Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

   ———. The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

   Crawford, Dorothy H., Alan Rickinson, and Ingólfur Johannessen. Cancer Virus: The Story of Epstein-Barr Virus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

   Crick, Francis. What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989.

   Cunningham, Andrew. The Anatomist Anatomis’d: An Experimental Discipline in Enlightenment Europe. London: Ashgate, 2010.

   Darwin, Charles. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. London: John Murray, 1872.

   Daudet, Alphonse. In the Land of Pain. London: Jonathan Cape, 2002.

   Davies, Jamie A. Life Unfolding: How the Human Body Creates Itself. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

   Davis, Daniel M. The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body’s Natural Defences. London: Bodley Head, 2018.

   ———. The Compatibility Gene. London: Allen Lane, 2013.

   Dehaene, Stanislas. Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts. London: Viking, 2014.

   Dittrich, Luke. Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets. London: Chatto & Windus, 2016.

   Dormandy, Thomas. The Worst of Evils: The Fight Against Pain. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006.

   Draaisma, Douwe. Forgetting: Myths, Perils, and Compensations. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2015.

   Dunn, Rob. The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today. New York: HarperCollins, 2011.

   Eagleman, David. The Brain: The Story of You. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2016.

   ———. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. New York: Pantheon Books, 2011.

   El-Hai, Jack. The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness. New York: Wiley & Sons, 2005.

   Emsley, John. Nature’s Building Blocks: An A—Z Guide to the Elements. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

       Enders, Giulia. Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Under-Rated Organ. London: Scribe, 2015.

   Epstein, Randi Hutter. Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank. New York: W. W. Norton, 2010.

   Fenn, Elizabeth A. Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2004.

   Finger, Stanley. Doctor Franklin’s Medicine. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.

   Foreman, Judy. A Nation in Pain: Healing Our Biggest Health Problem. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

   Francis, Gavin. Adventures in Human Being. London: Profile/Wellcome, 2015.

   Froman, Robert. The Many Human Senses. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1969.

   Garrett, Laurie. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World out of Balance. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.

   Gawande, Atul. Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance. London: Profile, 2007.

   Gazzaniga, Michael S. Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique. New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, 2008.

   Gigerenzer, Gerd. Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions. London: Allen Lane, 2014.

   Gilbert, Avery. What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life. New York: Crown, 2008.

   Glynn, Ian, and Jenifer Glynn. The Life and Death of Smallpox. London: Profile Books, 2004.

   Goldsmith, Mike. Discord: The History of Noise. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

   Goodman, Jordan, Anthony McElligott, and Lara Marks, eds. Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

   Gould, Stephen Jay. The Mismeasure of Man. New York: W. W. Norton, 1981.

   Gratzer, Walter. Terrors of the Table: The Curious History of Nutrition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

   Greenfield, Susan. The Human Brain: A Guided Tour. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997.

   Grove, David I. Tapeworms, Lice, and Prions: A Compendium of Unpleasant Infections. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

   Hafer, Abby. The Not-So-Intelligent Designer: Why Evolution Explains the Human Body and Intelligent Design Does Not. Eugene, Ore.: Cascade Books, 2015.

   Hatch, Steven. Snowball in a Blizzard: The Tricky Problem of Uncertainty in Medicine. London: Atlantic Books, 2016.

   Healy, David. Pharmageddon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.

   Heller, Joseph, and Speed Vogel. No Laughing Matter. London: Jonathan Cape, 1986.

   Herbert, Joe. Testosterone: Sex, Power, and the Will to Win. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

   Herold, Eve. Stem Cell Wars: Inside Stories from the Frontlines. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

       Hill, Lawrence. Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life. London: Oneworld, 2013.

   Hillman, David, and Ulrika Maude. The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

   Holmes, Bob. Flavor: The Science of Our Most Neglected Sense. New York: W. W. Norton, 2017.

   Homei, Aya, and Michael Worboys. Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States, 1850–2000: Mycoses and Modernity. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

   Ings, Simon. The Eye: A Natural History. London: Bloomsbury, 2007.

   Inwood, Stephen. A History of London. London: Macmillan, 1998.

   Jablonski, Nina. Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.

   ———. Skin: A Natural History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.

   Jackson, Mark. Asthma: The Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

   Jones, James H. Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. London: Macmillan, 1981.

   Jones, Steve. The Language of the Genes: Biology, History, and the Evolutionary Future. London: Flamingo, 1994.

   ———. No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine. London: Little, Brown, 2016.

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