Spare Parts: In Praise of Your Appendix and Other Unappreciated Organs

A tribute to the parts we can live without... or can we?

This book sheds light on human body parts once considered extraneous but now – with modern medicine and modern medical paraphernalia – shown to play an important role in our healthful survival. With wit and research-honed wisdom, health writer Carol Ann Rinzler explains in layman's language why we need “bonus” body parts such as:

The appendix, once discarded as “the worm of the intestines,” but now believed to play an importa…