The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
By: Azra Raza
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
With the fascinating scholarship of The Emperor of All Maladies and the deeply personal experience …
Want to Read $ 12.99"Treating cancer as one disease is like treating Africa as one country."-Azra Raza, The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
"Treating cancer as one disease is like treating Africa as one country."-Azra Raza, The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
"There is one and only one goal for all of us—to ensure that all our intellectual efforts are directed toward the relief of humanity’s suffering."-Azra Raza, The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
"There is one and only one goal for all of us—to ensure that all our intellectual efforts are directed toward the relief of humanity’s suffering."-Azra Raza, The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
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1. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
By: Atul Gawande
4.49
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine … read more
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"Endings matter, not just for the person but, perhaps even more, for the ones left behind."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things."-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
"He moved his line in the sand. This is what it means to have autonomy -- you may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with …"-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
2. The Gene: An Intimate History
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies--a magnificent h… read more
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- history
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3. What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
By: Danielle Ofri
4.10
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A look at the emotional side of medicine--the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love t… read more
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4. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its fir… read more
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5. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
By: Atul Gawande
4.00
Format: 96 pages,
The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imp… read more
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6. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
By: Harriet A. Washington
0.00
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America's shocking mist… read more
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7. The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
3.75
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one… read more
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8. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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9. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
By: Ricardo Nuila
4.38
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more
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10. The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery
By: Jason Fung
4.46
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Our understanding of cancer is slowly undergoing a revolution, allowing for the development of more… read more
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11. A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
By: Sara Manning Peskin
4.21
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the ve… read more
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12. Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health
By: Anupam B. Jena
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hi… read more
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13. For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug
By: Nathan Vardi
4.30
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A gripping business narrative and scientific thriller about what it takes to bring a wonder drug to… read more
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14. Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health
By: Casey Means
4.21
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the future. What if depression, anxiety, … read more
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15. An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
By: Matt Richtel
4.06
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
A magnificently reported and soulfully crafted exploration of the human immune system–the key to he… read more
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"Ideas ... can elicit a kind of autoimmune response - an overreaction that feels protective initially but can ultimately be counterproductive and make it harder to find truth."-Matt Richtel, An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
16. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
By: Fei-Fei Li
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at … read more
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17. The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It
By: Marty Makary
4.47
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"A must-read for every American and business leader." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBESFrom t… read more
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18. Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
By: Dave Goulson
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Insects are essential for life as we know it. As they become more scarce, our world will slowly gri… read more
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19. The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
By: Ken Liu
3.93
Format: 411 pages, Hardcover
original cover of ISBN 9781982134037 From award-winning author Ken Liu comes his much anticipate… read more
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"Nostalgia is a wound that we refuse time to heal."-Ken Liu, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
"The act of remembering is an act of retracing, and by doing so we erase and change the stencil."-Ken Liu, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
"As the author, I construct an artifact out of words, but the words are meaningless until they're animated by the consciousness of the reader. The story is co-told by the author and the reader, and ev…"-Ken Liu, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
20. Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed
By: Peter Singer
4.55
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
"Peter Singer may be the most controversial philosopher alive; he is certainly among the most influ… read more
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21. In Sickness: A Memoir
By: Barrett Rollins
3.77
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
A medical emergency forces a brilliant Harvard oncologist to reveal that she has been hiding her ad… read more
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22. The Undying
By: Anne Boyer
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggr… read more
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"Amnesia is vice-president to pain and the mother of philosophy."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"You will understand, I hope, that because of all of this, every pink ribbon looks like the flag of a conqueror stuck in a woman's grave."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"As soon as a patient lies down on the exam table, she has laid down her life on a bed of narrowed answers, but the questions are never sufficiently clear."-Anne Boyer, The Undying
"A person who complains about any aspect of breast cancer treatment in public is often drowned out by a chorus of people, many of whom have never had cancer, accusing her of ingratitude, saying she is…"-Anne Boyer, The Undying
23. How We Age: The Science of Longevity
By: Coleen T. Murphy
3.74
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
How recent breakthroughs in longevity research offer clues about human aging All of us would like … read more
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24. The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
By: Azra Raza
4.07
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
With the fascinating scholarship of The Emperor of All Maladies and the deeply personal experience … read more
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"Treating cancer as one disease is like treating Africa as one country."-Azra Raza, The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
"There is one and only one goal for all of us—to ensure that all our intellectual efforts are directed toward the relief of humanity’s suffering."-Azra Raza, The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
"The vast majority of researchers are studying diseases they never see, in animals who don’t get them spontaneously, or in test tubes where the “cancer"-Azra Raza, The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
"We should not be aiming for weeks of improved survival. Our goals should be higher. The public needs to see how far we have drifted from the original aims as oncologists and researchers and at what c…"-Azra Raza, The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
25. The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer
By: Charles Graeber
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Nurse comes an empowering and accessible sto… read more
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26. Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU
By: Wes Ely
4.38
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Winner of a Christopher Award “Perhaps one lesson to draw from the pandemic, with help from books … read more
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27. Beheld
By: TaraShea Nesbit
3.43
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Wives of Los Alamos comes the riveting story of a stranger’s arr… read more
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"All I had to protect myself was my mouth. So I spoketh."-TaraShea Nesbit, Beheld
28. Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
By: Eric J. Topol
4.02
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A Science Friday pick for book of the year, 2019 One of America's top doctors reveals how AI wil… read more
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29. Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
By: Conor Dougherty
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisis Spacious and affordable homes… read more
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30. All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way
By: Fred C. Trump
4.07
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, bre… read more
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31. Cancerland: A Medical Memoir
By: David Scadden
3.58
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A doctor's riveting story of loss and hope in the world of cancer. What is it like to encounter… read more
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