David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

(Rutgers University Press, 1996), and
Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of
All Maladies (Scribner, 2011). “There
was a senior hematologist” is quoted in
Laszlo’s book on page 183. Laszlo
conducted a series of interviews with
every key figure from that period—and
each chapter of the book is a separate
oral history.
Stanley Rachman’s experiments with
people with phobias are described in
“The Overprediction and
Underprediction of Pain,” Clinical
Psychology Review 11 (1991).
“A voice rose from the wreckage,”
appears on page 97 of Diane
McWhorter’s Carry Me Home: