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Mary Roach
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Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
by Mary Roach
Mary Roach's Replaceable You is a popular science tour through centuries of medical improvisation, from brass prosthetic noses to stem-cell organs grown in a lab. Reporting from a Boston burn unit to a Mongolian eye clinic backs up the jokes, making it a solid pick for readers who like their science reporting curious, specific, and genuinely funny.