Simon & Schuster One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives

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This book reads like a patchwork of loosely connected anecdotes rather than a coherent argument. Individual sentences may sound meaningful, but they do not accumulate into a compelling or well-structured whole. Sweeping links are drawn between evolutionary biology, ICU medicine, stress physiology and even a moment during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, yet almost none of it is properly substantiated. There are only a handful of footnotes in the entire book, and their selection feels arbitrary (including one about a whale penis being called a “Pink Floyd”), while substantial scientific claims are presented without references or engagement with uncertainty. The result is neither rigorous nor well written — just fragmented, emotionally suggestive and intellectually underdeveloped.

Love this book

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This is an absorbing book; I would definitely recommend it. Dr Morgan writes in a style which, especially if like me, you don't have a scientific or medical background, is easy to read. I found it inspirational and I enjoyed learning new facts. New respect for the animal kingdom.