New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Hardcover first edition - A book by this surgeon who is also an award-winning writer - "an inspiring search - within the interior of our bodies - for the biologically elusive quality of life that defines us. . . a portrait of the tumultuous universe within us - and shows how, amazingly, the stability of health rides on these tempests." Glossary, Index. xxiv, 395 pp. ISBN: 0-679444076.