"From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells. Rich with Mukherjee's revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, The Song of the Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer's exploration...

"This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of Victorian medicine in all its grisly weirdness. A puzzling series of dental explosions beginning in the nineteenth century, with the most recent case in the 1960s, is just one of many strange tales that have long lain undiscovered in the pages of old medical journals. Award-winning medical historian Thomas Morris has assembled the stories...

"In this reimagining of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from the monster's perspective, Hyde makes a hero of a villain. Mr. Hyde is hiding, trapped in Dr. Jekyll's surgical cabinet, counting the hours until capture. As four days pass, he has the chance, finally, to tell the story of his brief, marvelous life. We join Hyde, awakened after years of dormancy, in the mind he hesitantly shares with Jekyll. We spin with dizzy confusion as the...

Seven unique stories about dogs and cats.

"Health care is an attractive career choice for today's young people for several reasons. Overall job growth in this sector has increased dramatically in recent years and shows no sign of stopping. The population in the United States is getting older, and advances in health care mean that people are living longer than ever before. This means that the demand for health care will only increase in the coming decades."--

A disgraced but kind-hearted fertility doctor embarks on a breakthrough clinical trial in which four women give birth to kittens! When his ex joins the team, her jealous ex-husband is determined to expose the experiment.

Two strangers agree to carpool across the country for the chance to participate in a controversial study about the afterlife once a scientist has conclusively proven she can follow people's continued existance after their physical presence has been terminated. Teddy thinks he'll be more successful while Rose just wants a way out, but both are leaving people behind and have secrets that eventually come out as they travel together.