Dr. Oliver Sacks' books have been acclaimed for their compassion in the treatment of patients affected with profound disordersIn A Leg to Stand On, it is Sacks himself who is the patient....
Already technology enables parents to select some genetic traits for their children, and soon it will be possible to begin to shape ourselves as a species....
In 1984 triplet girls born three months prematurely received life-saving blood transfusions. A year later, their parents learned that their donor had the AIDS virus....
Balance examines the mysteries of the human balance system: the complicated mechanisms that allow our bodies to counteract gravity as we move through space....