Current Reviews

One of the Five Best books on doctors' lives …compelling and wonderfully told.

Jacobs' exquisite biography of the man who helped make Hodgkin's disease a curable condition is also an insight into the adventures of scientific inquiry and the mavericks who make it happen.

So beautifully done…deserves wide readership

A riveting read, meticulously covering a time of dramatic creativity in American medicine while revealing the personal infighting that took place behind the scenes

An accurate account of an extraordinary story in medical history…told through the lives of individual patients and their heart-wrenching tales.