Malignant Sadness: The Anatomy of Depression

  • Lewis Wolpert
Faber & Faber, 1999. 186 pp. £9.99

For the biologists, the answer is obvious, but to the rest of you, it is simply because the author is Lewis Wolpert. Wolpert is an accomplished developmental biologist, who has not only made remarkable research contributions, but has helped frame many questions in biological research, cutting across a number of disciplines. In view of his scientific prowess and his role as a philosopherscientist, it was simply too tantalizing for me to resist the temptation to preview what he writes about a disorder that I have spent most of my professional life studying.

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