Sawbones Book

The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine

Sawbones Book
Justin McElroy, Sydnee McElroy
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NZ$ 35.00
Paperback
h216 x 170mm - 232pg
29 Dec 2020 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9781681886510
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New for 2020! Join the 750,000 listeners of the Sawbones Podcast as Dr Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin humorously discuss centuries of medical myths, mishaps and mayhem, including modern day medicine and pandemics. Newly revised and updated for 2020, this new Paperback edition of the bestselling Sawbones Book gives you a fascinating, horrifying, funny and memorable tour through centuries of medical Experimentation and practice. Learn about trepanation, CBD, Norovirus, Chickenpox, Diabetes and more, all inspired by Sawbones 300+ podcast episodes.
Sydnee McElroy has a BS in biology (2005) and an MD (2009) from Marshall University. She currently is a practicing licensed family physician and an assistant professor of medical education with Marshall. Justin McElroy is a 15-year journalism veteran with two awards from the Ohio Associated Press for business writing. He has served as the managing editor of AOL' s Joystiq and Vox Media' s Polygon (of which he' s also a founder). Justin and Sydnee are the hosts of Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine, and between them have created a bevy of different podcasts, including My Brother, My Brother and Me (currently being adapted into a TV series by NBC Universal' s Seeso network) which have attracted 60 million total downloads. Their other shows include Still Buffering: A Sister' s Guide to Teens Through the Ages, The Adventure Zone (a D&D podcast, with a forthcoming graphic novel) and Quality Control, a game review podcast. Teylor Smirl is a graduate of New York' s School of the Visual Arts whose work has been featured in comics such as Amazing Forest as well as her own series, Flightless Birds. As Sydnee' s sister, she is part of the ever-growing McElroy (and family) podcasting empire, co-hosting Still Buffering with Sydnee and their youngest sister, Rileigh.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781681886510
Published: 29 Dec 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: Weldon Owen, Incorporated
Publisher: Weldon Owen, Incorporated
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 170mm
Pages: 232

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