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The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever
Lydia Reeder
Lydia Reeder
How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood―and the brilliant doctor who defied them
320 pp. Hardcover - Science
The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
Lina Zeldovich
Lina Zeldovich
A remarkable story of the scientists behind a long-forgotten and life-saving cure: the healing viruses that can conquer antibiotic resistant bacterial infections.
302 pp. Hardcover - Science
