1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce

Douglas Starr

Essence and emblem of life–feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times–human blood is now the center of a huge, secretive, and often dangerous worldwide commerce. It is a commerce whose impact upon humanity rivals th…

Mendel’s Dwarf

Simon Mawer

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind

V.S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee

Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight

Pat Shipman

The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character

Daniel J. Kevles