Edward Sylvester

Books

Back From The Brink: How Crises Spur Doctors To New Discoveries About The Brain. Published January, 2004, Dana Press and University of Chicago Press. Narrative journalism exposition on attempts to understand the human brain and to treat neurological diseases, based on extensive interviews with neuro-intensivists and patients at Johns Hopkins, Columbia, the University of California at San Francisco and other neuro institutes.

The Healing Blade: A Tale of Neurosurgery Updated Edition. Revised & Updated. Published December, 1997, Beck Press.

The Healing Blade: A Tale of Neurosurgery. A narrative of high-tech developments on the frontier of neurosurgery, focusing on a procedure known as the "standstill." Published by Simon & Schuster, 1993.

Target: Cancer, an in-depth report on the latest research into the causes and cures of cancer, focusing on the causal role of "oncogenes," then considered highly controversial but now widely accepted as major factors in cancer's onset. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1986.

The Gene Age, Revised Edition, principal author with Dr. Lynn C. Klotz. Paperback, Scribner's, 1987. Written for the general, lay reader, this became the required text in such diverse courses as ASU's BIO 394: Gene Technology in Modern Society, Fall, 1988 and Spring, 1989, and an honors biology course at Wake Forest University in South Carolina.

The Gene Age: Genetic Engineering and the Next Industrial Revolution, principal author with Dr. C. Lynn Klotz. An account of the development of genetic engineering and the revolution then foreseen in medicine, agriculture and biofuels. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983. Japanese edition 1984.