Together these twenty-one articles on a wide range of today’s most leading topics in science, from Dennis Overbye, Jonathan Weiner, and Richard Preston, among others, represent the full spectrum of scientific inquiry, proving once again that "good science writing is evidently plentiful." (American Scientist).
Atul Gawande is a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and a staff writer for The New Yorker. He is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, and he was nominated for 1 2002 National Book Award for his book Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science. His new book, Better, will be coming out this spring.
Jesse Cohen, series editor, is the general editor of Great Discoveries, a series of short books on scientific breakthroughs published by Atlas Books and W.W. Norton. He lives in New York City.
|
