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American Poison: A Deadly Invention and the Woman Who Battled for Environmental Justice
By Daniel Stone
A timely tale about corporate whitewashing that contaminated a nation.
I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
By Daniel J. Levitin
Tuneful remedies are backed up by science.
American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It
By Margaret Morganroth Gullette
A sporadically persuasive jeremiad on what went wrong during the pandemic.
How much is that dogma in the window?
Foreign Bodies
By Simon Schama
Anti-science hysteria is nothing new. (Ivermectin, anyone?)
Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans
By Bill Schutt
Those pearly whites do more than just shine.
How controversial south-of-the-border clinics approach addiction.
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic
By Tabitha Stanmore
When spells — and the fear of them — reigned supreme.
