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[Book Review] Wellcome Book Prize winner

ScienceNOW - Fetched: April 28th, 2016, 5:00pm UTC

On 25 April, the Wellcome Book Prize 2016 was awarded to Suzanne O'Sullivan for her probing portrait of psychosomatic illness, It's All in Your Head. Inspired by O'Sullivan's work as a neurology consultant, the book explores the dramatic symptoms— from blindness to paralysis to chronic fatigue—that can arise in the absence of any discernible physical cause. Billed as "books for the incurably curious," the Wellcome Book Prize recognizes outstanding new titles in health and medicine.

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