The best of the Best American Science Writing /
The best of the Best American Science Writing /
introduction by Jerome Groopman ; series editor Jesse Cohen.
- 1st ed.
- New York : HarperCollins, 2010.
- xv, 400 p. ; 21 cm.
"Ten years of the series"--cover.
When doctors make mistakes / Biotech death of Jesse Gelsinger / Science, guided by ethics, can lift up the poor / Darwin's influence on modern thought / Dr. Daedalus / Soft science of dietary fat / Common ground / Melody lingers on / What Galileo saw / Columbia's last flight / Genome in black and white (and gray) / Darwin or not / Mighty white of you / Your move / Man on the table was 97, but he devised the surgery / Truth and consequences / What's normal? / Facing life with a lethal gene / Final frontier / Birdbrain / Atul Gawande -- Sheryl Gay Stolberg -- Freeman J. Dyson -- Ernst Mayr -- Lauren Slater -- Gary Taubes -- Danielle Ofri -- Floyd Skloot -- Michael Benson -- William Langewiesche -- Robin Marantz Henig -- David Quammen -- Jack Hitt -- Tom Mueller -- Lawrence K. Altman -- Jennifer Couzin-Frankel -- Jerome Groopman -- Amy Harmon -- Karen Olsson -- Margaret Talbot. 2000. The 2001. 2002. The 2003. The 2004. 2005. The 2006. 2007. The 2008. 2009. The
9780061875007 (pbk.) 0061875007 (pbk.)
Science--Popular works--Periodicals.
Technical writing--United States--Periodicals.
Science.
Technical writing.
Q 162 / B554 2010
500
"Ten years of the series"--cover.
When doctors make mistakes / Biotech death of Jesse Gelsinger / Science, guided by ethics, can lift up the poor / Darwin's influence on modern thought / Dr. Daedalus / Soft science of dietary fat / Common ground / Melody lingers on / What Galileo saw / Columbia's last flight / Genome in black and white (and gray) / Darwin or not / Mighty white of you / Your move / Man on the table was 97, but he devised the surgery / Truth and consequences / What's normal? / Facing life with a lethal gene / Final frontier / Birdbrain / Atul Gawande -- Sheryl Gay Stolberg -- Freeman J. Dyson -- Ernst Mayr -- Lauren Slater -- Gary Taubes -- Danielle Ofri -- Floyd Skloot -- Michael Benson -- William Langewiesche -- Robin Marantz Henig -- David Quammen -- Jack Hitt -- Tom Mueller -- Lawrence K. Altman -- Jennifer Couzin-Frankel -- Jerome Groopman -- Amy Harmon -- Karen Olsson -- Margaret Talbot. 2000. The 2001. 2002. The 2003. The 2004. 2005. The 2006. 2007. The 2008. 2009. The
9780061875007 (pbk.) 0061875007 (pbk.)
Science--Popular works--Periodicals.
Technical writing--United States--Periodicals.
Science.
Technical writing.
Q 162 / B554 2010
500