The Best American Science Writing 2008
By: editor, Sylvia Nasar ; series editor, Jesse Cohen.
Contributors: Nasar, Sylvia.; Cohen, Jesse.
Series: Best American Science Writing
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780061340413
Subjects: Science.; Technical writing.
Notes: "An Ecco book."
Table of contents: label: Sylvia Nasar
title: Introduction
pagenum: vii; label: Amy Harmon
title: Facing Life with a Lethal Gene
pagenum: 1; label: Richard Preston
title: An Error in the Code
pagenum: 17; label: Thomas Goetz
title: 23andMe Will Decode Your DNA for $1,000. Welcome to the Age of Genomics
pagenum: 35; label: Carl Zimmer
title: Evolved for Cancer?
pagenum: 54; label: Tara Parker-Pope
title: How NIH Misread Hormone Study in 2002
pagenum: 65; label: Gardiner Harris, Benedict Carey, and Janet Roberts
title: Psychiatrists, Children, and Drug Industry's Role
pagenum: 71; label: Gardiner Harris and Janet Roberts
title: After Sanctions, Doctors Get Drug Company Pay
pagenum: 81; label: Daniel Carlat
title: Dr. Drug Rep
pagenum: 89; label: Tina Rosenberg
title: When Is a Pain Doctor a Drug Pusher?
pagenum: 105; label: Jerome Groopman
title: What's Normal?
pagenum: 130; label: Sally Satel
title: Supply, Demand, and Kidney Transplants
pagenum: 145; label: Oliver Sacks
title: The Abyss
pagenum: 160; label: Ben McGrath
title: Muscle Memory
pagenum: 182; label: Margaret Talbot
title: Duped
pagenum: 196; label: Stephen S. Hall
title: The Older-and-Wiser Hypothesis
pagenum: 222; label: Al Gore
title: Moving Beyond Kyoto
pagenum: 244; label: Jim Yardley
title: Beneath Booming Cities, China's Future Is Drying Up
pagenum: 249; label: Joseph Kahn
title: In China, a Lake's Champion Imperils Himself
pagenum: 258; label: John Seabrook
title: Sowing for Apocalypse
pagenum: 271; title: About the Contributors
pagenum: 301