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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorBeing Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande · 283 pages
From surgeon and bestselling author Atul Gawande, a book that has the potential to change medicine—and lives. Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should. Through eye-opening research
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Sheri Fink · 558 pages
Fink provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina-- and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal all
The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
Dick Teresi · 362 pages
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi · 256 pages
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve me
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Oliver Sacks · 243 pages
In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
Michel Foucault
Mortality
Christopher Hitchens
"Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers"--Provided by the publisher.
A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
John Berger · 172 pages
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
Thomas Szasz · 320 pages
The author believes that what is nowadays accepted as mental illness is whatever psychiatrists say it is - and that psychiatry has, with increasing zeal, defined more and more kinds of behavior as mental illness. What is termed mental illness is in fact behavior disapproved of by the speaker.
What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
Danielle Ofri · 224 pages
"By shedding light on how doctors cope with the stresses and responsibilities of patients, colleagues, lawyers, and their personal lives, she explains why it is important that patients know how emotions influence the way physicians treat their patients both medically and interpersonally. Exploring the full range of human emotion--from the fear of making a fatal mistake to the pride and elation of
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
Paul A. Offit · 298 pages
The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care
Eric Topol · 328 pages
A professor of medicine reveals how technology like wireless internet, individual data, and personal genomics can be used to save lives.
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
Victoria Sweet · 402 pages
"San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hotel-Dieu (God's Hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves--"anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times" and needed extended medical care-ended up here. So did Victoria Sweet, who came for two months and stayed for t
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Susannah Cahalan · 288 pages
The book narrates Cahalan's issues with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis and the process by which she was diagnosed with this form of encephalitis. She wakes up in a hospital with no memory of the events of the previous month, during which time she would have violent episodes and delusions. Her eventual diagnosis is made more difficult by various physicians misdiagnosing her with several theories s
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee · 571 pages
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer is a book written by Siddhartha Mukherjee, an Indian-born American physician and oncologist. Published on 16 November 2010 by Scribner, it won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
Elisabeth Rosenthal · 432 pages
"An award-winning New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American healthcare system, and tells us exactly what we can do to solve its myriad of problems. It is well documented that our healthcare system has grave problems, but how, in only a matter of decades, did things get this bad? Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symp
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
Dennis L. Kasper, J. Larry Jameson, Eugene Braunwald, Anthony S. Fauci, Stephen L. Hauser, Dan L. Longo · 1,190 pages
Harrison's has defined internal medicine for millions of physicians and students worldwide since 1950. This Seventeenth Edition retains its balance of science and patient management and has been masssively updated to include an innovative array of new features and content. Beyond the expansion of an illustration program with more than 300 new, additional illustrations. The acclaimed "Approach to t
The Anatomy of Melancholy, what it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, & Several Cures of It. In Three Partitions, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up
Robert Burton · 1,064 pages
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
Richard Preston · 384 pages
This interesting books talks about the author doing an investigation about several viruses in africa, including ebola. He explains the different strains and tells us their stories.
Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
Shannon Brownlee · 351 pages
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
R.D. Laing · 222 pages
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine
Simon Singh, Edzard Ernst · 352 pages
Provides an examination and judgement of more than thirty of the most treatments in alternative medicine, such as acupuncture, homeopathy, aromatherapy, reflexology, chiropractic and herbal medicine.