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Category: Medicine / Health

Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan

Posted on September 16, 2017April 7, 2022
Topics: Medicine / Health, Nonfiction

Rating: 8.5/10. This is a memoir by a 24 year old girl who developed a rare neurological disease, called “Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis”. It’s rare enough that initially, all the doctors were unable to correctly diagnose the disease, instead thinking she had bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. Her condition worsened and she became psychotic, until they identified…

The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Posted on December 1, 2016April 6, 2022
Topics: Medicine / Health, Nonfiction

Rating: 5.5/10. This book describes the complete history of genetics, from Darwin and Mendel to DNA to modern gene therapy and the Human Genome Project. The book is 500 pages, which is way too long in my opinion. Most of the stuff I already kind of knew from high school biology, the book goes a…

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