The Doctor’s Book Club Siddhartha Mukherjee—The Gene All is now secure and fast; Not the gods can shake the Past; Flies-to the adamantine door Bolted down forevermore. Ralph Waldo Emerson […]
The Doctor’s Book Club Rebecca Skloot—The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks On 27 August 1963, Emanuel Mandel, the director of medicine at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital (JCDH), told his […]
The Doctor’s Book Club Ben Winters Underground Airlines My country tis of thee, Late land of slavery, Of thee I sing. Land where my father’s pride Slept where my mother […]
The Doctor’s Book Club Viet Thanh Nguyen The Sympathizer The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise […]
The Doctor’s Book Club Emma Donoghue’s Room And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die. —Sylvia Plath “Lady […]
The Doctor’s Book Club Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. -F. Scott Fitzgerald, […]
The Doctor’s Book Club Lily King’s Euphoria The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment, The illusion of a Greek necessity Flows in the scrolls of […]
This is a version of a lecture given to the Osler Club of London and the British Society for the History of Medicine on 1st October 2020 as part of […]
