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Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
by Henry MarshIf you liked Do No Harm, try these:
by Theodore H. Schwartz
Published Aug 2024
Read ReviewsA popular biography of brain surgery, by one of its preeminent practitioners.
by Joshua D. Mezrich
Published Jan 2020
Read ReviewsA gifted surgeon illuminates one of the most profound, awe-inspiring, and deeply affecting achievements of modern day medicine - the movement of organs between bodies - in this exceptional work of death and life.
by Luke Allnutt
Published Feb 2019
Read ReviewsA triumphant story about love, loss and finding hope - against all odds.
by Meredith Wadman
Published Sep 2018
Read ReviewsThe epic and controversial story of a major breakthrough in cell biology that led to the conquest of rubella and other devastating diseases.
by Christian Donlan
Published Jun 2018
Read ReviewsIn the vein of The Noonday Demon and When Breath Becomes Air, a father's gorgeous account of navigating his own neurological decline while watching in wonder as his young daughter's brain activity blossoms, a stunning examination of neurology, loss, and the meaning of life.
by Elisabeth Rosenthal
Published Mar 2018
Read ReviewsAward-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.
by Atul Gawande
Published Sep 2017
Read ReviewsIn Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending
by Steven Hatch
Published Mar 2017
Read ReviewsA physician's memoir about the ravages of a terrible disease and the small hospital that fought to contain it, Inferno is also an explanation of the science and biology of Ebola: how it is transmitted and spreads with such ferocity.
by Paul Kalanithi
Published Jan 2016
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2016 BookBrowse Nonfiction Award
For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living?
by Terrence Holt
Published Oct 2015
Read ReviewsOut of the crucible of medical training, award-winning writer Terrence Holt shapes this stunning account of residency, the years-long ordeal in which doctors are made.
by Ira Byock
Published Mar 2013
Read ReviewsA palliative care doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial ethical issues of our time on his quest to transform care through the end of life.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsWinner of BookBrowse's 2010 Best Book Award
Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.
by Jerome Groopman
Published Mar 2008
Read ReviewsThe renowned Harvard Medical School physician and New Yorker writer Jerome Groopman presents an entirely new way of understanding medicine and medical care to give patients and their families insight into why some doctors succeed in thinking through problems and why some doctors fail.
by Atul Gawande
Published Feb 2008
Read ReviewsThe New York Times bestselling author of Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession
by Tracy Kidder
Published Aug 2004
Read ReviewsThis powerful and inspiring book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it.
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