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The Genetic Age
Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life
2024 || Paperback || Professor Matthew Cobb || Profile Books Ltd
How fifty years of genetic engineering have brought us to the brink of a profound and disturbing future, from Baillie Gifford-shortlisted scientist Matthew Cobb
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Complications
A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
2024 || Paperback || Atul Gawande || Profile Books Ltd
Giving an account of the life of a surgeon, this book looks at what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. It includes chronicles of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; and what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.
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Better
A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
2024 || Paperback || Atul Gawande || Profile Books Ltd
Explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable. This book discusses the ethical dilemmas of doctors' participation in lethal injections and examines the influence of money on modern medicine.