Best American Science Writing 2010

by Groopman, Jerome

• ISBN13: 9780061852510
• ISBN10: 0061852511
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-14
• Publisher: Ecco Pr

Summary

Edited by New York Times bestselling author Jerome Groopman, The Best American Science Writing 2010 collects in one volume the most crucial, thought-provoking, and engaging science writing of the year. Distinguished by new and impressive voices as well as some of the foremost names in science writing—David Dobbs, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Larissa MacFarquhar among them.

This 10th edition of the popular annual series, praised as superb brain candy by "Kirkus Reviews," is dedicated to collecting the most crucial, thought-provoking, and engaging science writing of the year.

Author Biography

Jerome Groopman, editor, has been a staff writer in medicine and biology for The New Yorker since 1998. He is also the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and author of four books, most recently, Anatomy of Hope and How Doctors Think, which was a New York Times bestseller. Jesse Cohen, series editor, is a writer and freelance editor. He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
The Kindest Cut	p. 1
The Placebo Problem	p. 31
Surgery for Mental Ills Offers Both Hope and Risk	p. 45
The Truth About Grit	p. 52
How to Think, Say, or Do Precisely the Worst Thing for Any Occasion	p. 59
Friendship as a Health Factor	p. 71
A life of Its Own	p. 80
The Orchid Children	p. 102
My Genome, My Self	p. 124
Test Subjects Who Call the Scientist Mom or Dad	p. 147
The Famine Fighter's Last Battle	p. 153
Pesticides Indicted in Bee Deaths	p. 161
Disaster Aversion	p. 167
The Sixth Extinction?	p. 190
Are We Still Evolving?	p. 218
A Most Private Evolution	p. 232
Unpopular Science	p. 243
An Epidemic of Fear	p. 252
The Missions of Astronomy	p. 272
Decoding an Ancient Computer	p. 282
The Deadly Choices at Memorial	p. 293
So Much to Learn About the Oceans from Sand	p. 330
About the Contributors	p. 335
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