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Sharon Moalem

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Sharon Moalem MD, PhD, is an award winning neurogeneticist and evolutionary biologist. His work brings evolution, genetics, biology and medicine together to explain how the body works in new and fascinating ways. As a college student he was given as a gift to the King of Thailand to work in an orphanage for HIV positive children. Since then Dr. Moalem went on to cofound a biotech company and developed an antimicrobial drug designed to address the growing problem of superbug infections such as MRSA. Dr. Moalem and his work have been featured on CNN, in the New York Times, on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the Today Show, Bloomberg Night Talk and in magazines such as New Scientist, Elle, and Martha Stewart's Body + Soul, O-The Oprah Magazin...more

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Books by Sharon Moalem

Average rating: 4.04 · 1,739 ratings · 346 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease by Sharon Moalem, Jonathan Prince 4.12 avg rating — 1,534 ratings — published 2007 — 18 editions	My rating:
	How Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do 3.47 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	My rating:
	La Ley Del Más Débil: Un Médico Inconformista Descubre Por Qué Son Necesarias Las Enfermedades 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	My rating:

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“Why would you take a drug that is guaranteed to kill you in forty years? One reason, right? It's the only thing that will stop you dying tomorrow.”
― Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease

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