Natalie Robins

The Girl Who Died Twice: The Libby Zion Case and the Hidden Hazards of Hospitals

"A devastating expose of how modern teaching hospitals work."

--Journal of the American Medical Association

"Robins lands squarely on a most interesting question: How can we balance the need of young physicians to assume responsibility for patients against the need of patients to have experienced doctors?.... The Girl Who Died Twice is a thorough recounting of the Libby Zion story...."

--The New England Journal of Medicine

"A balanced, informative and highly readable account, and a valuable insight into American medical education and practice..."

--The Lancet

"Troubling... Thoroughly researched and expertly told."

--Library Journal

"Conscientiously balanced... Written with admirable thoroughness."

--Francine Prose, Newsday

"Carefully researched and finely crafted."

--The Nation

Selected Works

Nonfiction

Copeland’s Cure: Homeopathy and the War Between Conventional and Alternative Medicine
A social history of the 150-year battle between conventional and alternative medicine in America

The Girl Who Died Twice: The Libby Zion Case and the Hidden Hazards of Hospitals
"Investigative journalism at its best. A superb account of a case that, 'after a century of tradition,' began to change medical education... A serious study and a page-turner... Dazzling."

-- Susan Garrett, The Washington Post

Alien Ink: The FBI’s War On Freedom of Expression
"Utterly absorbing and superbly researched... Anyone interested in the FBI's decades-long war against the American writer... owes Natalie Robins an enormous debt of gratitude." 

--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., New York Newsday

Savage Grace
"A fascinating contemporary morality tale, from vivid real life."

–John Fowles

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