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The book club last read ‘The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women‘ by Kate Moore. The book presents the stories of women who worked in radium-dial factories, the ‘mysterious illnesses’ that they sustained due to their exposure to toxic radium, and the legal challenges they endured that resulted in improved regulation of working conditions. Thanks to everyone who participated in the lively discussion!

Previous books this group considered:

• A crack in creation (about CRISPR) by Jennifer Doudna*
• Almost Everything: Notes on Hope by Anne Lamott
• And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
• Bad Blood – Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by David Carreyrou
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
• Brain on Fire by Susannah Callahan
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• Dopesick by Beth Macy . The opioid epidemic, in detail.
• Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar’s Search for Justice by Alice Dreger
• Jonas Salk, A Life by Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs
• Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Open Wound by Jason Karlawish
• Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chavalier*
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
• The Biological Mind by Alan Jasanoff
• The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
• The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams, Gail Hudson
• The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor’s Heroic Search for the World’s First Miracle Drug by Thomas Hager
• The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last by Azra Raza
• The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
• The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry*
• The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson
• The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
• The Overstory by Richard Powers
• The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore*
• The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience by Lee McIntyre
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
• Transcendent Kingdom*
• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel*

*denotes previous Book Club selections