by Bill Bryson
Bryson takes the reader head-to-toe through the human body, marshaling anatomy, immunology, genetics, and medical history into a witty guided tour. Along the way he surveys how little we still understand about the organs, cells, and microbes that keep us running.
In this collection, The Body: A Guide for Occupants references 5 other books.
It draws on The Gene, Why We Sleep and The Emperor of All Maladies.
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Bryson quotes Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Gene directly in his chapter on reproduction and heredity, using Mukherjee's observation that 'humans don't actually reproduce at all' as a framing device.
Bryson's chapter on sleep leans on Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep, citing Walker for the evidence that teenage sleep schedules and chronic sleep deprivation damage health.
Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies is referenced in Bryson's chapter on cancer for its account of the disease's history and treatment.
Bryson's book is pitched as the biological companion to his own A Short History of Nearly Everything, explicitly turning the same 'amateur science tour' approach inward to the human body.
Sapolsky's Behave is drawn on in Bryson's discussion of the brain and human behavior, providing the biology-of-behavior backdrop for his nervous-system chapters.
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