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Stephanie Snow offers up a good start on the classics in Saturday's Wall Street Journal. Click on the WSJ link for detailed summaries of each.
What titles would you add?
Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind (Norton, 1997)
Nancy Tomes, The Gospel of Germs (Harvard, 1998)
Michael Bliss, The Discovery of Insulin (Chicago, 1982)
W.F. Bynum, The History of Medicine (Oxford, 2008)
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