Heartily recommend all three books by Atul Gawande! Outstanding writing, compelling subjects, lucid and cogent arguments.
Cheers Divya Sent from my iPad On 5 Dec 2011, at 19:23, Aanjhan Ranganathan <aanj...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Anish Mohammed <anish.moham...@gmail.com> > wrote: >>> 2. VS Ramachandran's The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What >>> Makes Us Human. I have a gigantic man-crush on VS. Very good. >> have to admit i find him a bit hand wavy and too much hype ... > > Interesting. I have read his "Phantoms of the Brain" and found it > fascinating. He is not of Oliver Sacks league may be, but "too much > hand wavy" is something I would not describe him as. > > Nevertheless, I have Atul Gawande's books on my to-read list for a > long time now. Any views? > > -- > A >
