About the Author

Sheldon Margulies, M.D.

Sheldon Margulies, M.D., is a board-certified practicing neurologist in Silver Spring, Maryland, and a member of the American Academy of Neurology. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1966, and Stanford School of Medicine in 1971, completed an internal medicine residency at McGill University in 1973, and completed a neurology residency at the University of California, San Francisco, in 1976. He is also an inactive member of the Maryland Bar, having graduated from the University of Baltimore School of Law in 1988. Dr. Margulies currently holds the rank of clinical assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, having been a clinical assistant professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins University and assistant professor of neurology at the University of Maryland and the University of Alabama.

On his latest book:

"The Fascinating Body does not contain a lot of microscopic detail or sophisticated chemistry, not because they aren't important, but because they are unnecessary for a day-to-day understanding of how the body works." - Sheldon Margulies, M.D.

About his previous books:

Dr. Margulies is the author of Everyday Doctoring: A New Approach to the Logic and Reasoning of Neurology and Medicine, a textbook on medical and neurologic physical diagnosis, and coauthor of Learning Law: The Mastery of Legal Logic, a textbook outlining legal reasoning. He has also published articles concerning the postconcussion syndrome and its causes; the medical evidence for and against the diagnosis of brain damage following mild head injuries; the Supreme Court's 1993 decision in Daubert concerning the trial court’s role in excluding junk science from the courtroom; and the applicability of Daubert to the use of differential diagnosis and neuropsychological testing in proving claims of brain damage.

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The Fascinating Body: How it Works

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Sheldon Margulies, M.D.