Sandeep Jauhar’s Doctored is a passionate and necessary book that asks difficult questions about the future of medicine. The narrative is gripping, and the writing is marvelous. But it was the gravity of the problem—so movingly told—that grabbed and kept my attention throughout this remarkable work.

Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.

I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.