
The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Explores Myth, Medicine, and the Human Body
The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Explores Myth, Medicine, and the Human Body
#3393 of 3,809 books · #490 in Science & Technology
Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest (2000).
Studies how current knowledge of human's inner organs has emerged from a rich history of imaginative speculation about how the body works and what role the major organs play.
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- ISBN-13
- 9780684854878
- Genre
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Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current InterestShortlisted(2000)
Other awarded books from Sherwin B. Nuland
- How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter (1995)1 win · 20 score
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