Book Reviews

Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything, by Randi Hutter Epstein
Reviewed by: Flora Campos Cornfield, PhD

Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital, by David Oshinsky
Reviewed by: Alan Lippman, MD

Catching the Worm: Towards Ending River Blindness, and Reflections on My Life, by William C. Campbell with Claire O’Connell
Reviewed by: Vincent J Cirillo, PhD

Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope into Action, by David Fajgenbaum
Reviewed by: Alan Lippman, MD

Covid Ramblings: A Medical Historian's Digressions, by Michael Nevins
Reviewed by: Sandra Moss, MD

The Death of Cancer, by Vincent T. Devita Jr., MD and Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
Reviewed by: Alan Lippman, MD

The Doctors Blackwell, by Janice P. Nimura
Reviewed by Vincent J. Cirillo, PhD

The First Cell: and the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last, by Azra Raza. 
Reviewed by: Alan Lippman, MD

THE GREAT SECRET: The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer, by Jennet Conant
Reviewed by: Michael Nevins

Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin’s Disease, by Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs
Reviewed by: Alan Lippman, MD

Jonas Salk: A Life, by Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs
Reviewed by: Alan Lippman, MD

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Suspect No. 1: The Man Who Got Away, by Lise Pearlman
Reviewed by: Vincent J Cirillo, PhD

Poliomyelitis: Newark 1916 “The Grip of Terror”, by Sandra Moss
Reviewed by: Alan Lippman, MD

ROLLING WITH PATTON:  The Letters and Photographs of Field Director Gerald L. Hill, 303^rd Infantry Regiment, 97^th “Trident” Division, 1943-1945, by George J. Hill
Reviewed by: Alan J. Lippman, MD

Voices From the Bialystock Ghetto, by Michael Nevins
Reviewed by: Alan Lippman, MD

The Winter Soldier, by Daniel Mason
Reviewed by: Alan Lippman, MD

Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration, Christine Montross
Reviewed by: Alan J. Lippman, MD

War Letters 1917 - 1918: From Dr. William T. Shoemaker, AEF, in France, and His Family in Philadelphia, George Hill
Reviewed by: Sandra Moss

Writing the Pulse: The Origins and Career of the Sphygmograph and Its American Masters, by Sandra Moss
Reviewed by: Allen B. Weisse, MD, FACC

The Case of The Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer, by Dean Jobb. 

Reviewed: Richard Marfuggi, MD, FACS, DMH                                                                                                                                                              

Damage: The Untold Story of Brain Trauma in Boxing, by Tris Dixon. 

Reviewed by: Vincent J. Cirillo, Ph.D.