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Listen to Sam Kean in conversation about The Icepick Surgeon on Poured Over: The B&N Podcast

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The Icepick Surgeon is a tale of doctors gone amok, crossing the line from experiment to crime, often wrong for all well-intentioned reasons, and what these stories reveal about historic times in which they took place. Sam Kean is an eclectic writer with an affinity for scientific subjects and their weird and darker paths, and he has an inimitable knack for transforming this passionate interest into astonishing story, punctuated with humor and rife with the absurd.

From a New York Times bestselling author comes the gripping, untold history of science's darkest secrets.

"A fascinating book [that] deserves a wide audience." —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Science is a force for good in the world—at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn’t everything, it’s the only thing—no matter the cost. Bestselling author Sam Kean tells the tru...