Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing
By: Victoria Sweet
4.20
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
A radical new understanding of how medicine is best practiced, by the award-winning author of God's…
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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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- audiobook
- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
"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. Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death
By: Katy Butler
4.12
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
Knocking on Heaven's Door is a visionary map through the labyrinth of a broken and morally adrift m… read more
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- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
"To do more, is not necessarily to do better."-Katy Butler, Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death
"When my father was vigorous and lucid, (my mother) regarded medicine as her wily ally in a lifelong campaign to keep old age, sickness, and death at bay. Now ally and foe exchanged masks. Medicine lo…"-Katy Butler, Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death
"When a fine old carpet is eaten by mice, the colors and patterns of what's left behind do not change,' wrote my neighbor and friend, the poet Jane Hirschfield, after she visited an old friend sufferi…"-Katy Butler, Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death
3. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
By: Atul Gawande , None
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medic… read more
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- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
4. Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
By: Laurence Gonzales
4.00
Format: None pages,
In Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales combines hard science and powerful storytelling to illustrate t… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
5. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By: Matthew Desmond
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. Why Our Health Matters: A Vision of Medicine That Can Transform Our Future
By: Andrew Weil
4.09
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A landmark book that shows us exactly how we have let health and medicine become a crisis in our so… read more
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- science
- health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace
By: Alice Waters , Tamar Adler
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
Reviving the inspiring message of M. F. K. Fisher's How to Cook a Wolf-- written in 1942 during war… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
8. Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
By: Lisa Sanders
4.15
Format: 32 pages,
A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School … read more
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- science
- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
9. Juniper: The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon
By: Thomas French , None , Kelley Benham French
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A micro-preemie fights for survival in this extraordinary and gorgeously told memoir by her parents… read more
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- memoir
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year
By: Matt McCarthy
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In medical school, Matt McCarthy dreamed of being a different kind of doctor--the sort of mythical,… read more
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- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
11. 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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12. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
By: Anne Fadiman
3.91
Format: 2 pages,
Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epi… read more
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13. Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
By: None
3.14
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Being Mortaland Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framewo… read more
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14. 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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15. Loving the Little Years: Motherhood in the Trenches
By: Rachel Jankovic
4.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the author: "I didn t write this book because mothering little ones is easy for me. I wrote it… read more
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16. How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
By: David McRaney
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this lively journey through human psychology, bestselling author and creator of the You Are Not … read more
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- audiobook
- self help
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
"I couldn’t shake the idea that I, too, was probably one conversation away from changing my own mind about something, maybe a lot of things. But I also recalled how many conversations I’d had that onl…"-David McRaney, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
"Before scientists began researching the Leadership LAB’s technique, few studies supported the possibility that campaigns could change voters’ views on polarized, partisan, politically controversial i…"-David McRaney, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
17. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
By: Riley Black
3.95
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books! "This is top-drawer science writi… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"That's the goal of paleontology, after all - to start with the offerings of death and work back towards life."-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"It's an extension of how we often cope in the wake of our own personal traumas, remembering the wounds as we struggle to see the growth stimulated by terrible events. Resilience has no meaning withou…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"In time, extinction comes for all species. Some leave descendants. Others do not. Beautiful as the image is, there is no tree of life. The shape of biodiversity is more like a chaotic blanket, indivi…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
18. M Is for Mama: A Rebellion Against Mediocre Motherhood
By: Abbie Halberstadt
4.53
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER Mama of ten Abbie Halberstadt helps women humbly and gracefully ri… read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine
By: Robert H. Lustig
4.28
Format: 416 pages, ebook
An urgent manifesto and strategy to cure both us and the planet.Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric neur… read more
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- audiobook
- self help
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
20. The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine
By: J. Thomas Grant
4.54
Format: 363 pages, Paperback
Extraordinary encounters. Life-threatening diseases. Heroic actions. Instantaneous decisions. Unima… read more
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- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
21. The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
By: Barbara K. Lipska
3.88
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Neuroscientist Lipska was diagnosed early in 2015 with metastatic melanoma in her brain's frontal l… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- health
- medical
- nonfiction
- science
"Ich hoffe, dass meine persönliche Erfahrung wenigstens Zu der Erkenntnis beiträgt, dass psychisch kranke Menschen ebenso wenig für ihre Krankheit verantwortlich sind wie Krebskranke und dass die best…"-Barbara K. Lipska, The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
22. 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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- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
23. 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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- audiobook
- health care
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
24. The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
By: Janice P. Nimura
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope… read more
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- audiobook
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
25. Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training
By: Adam Stern
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Adam Stern was a student at a state medical school before being selected to train as a psychiatry r… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
26. Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
By: Holly Whitaker
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The founder of a female-focused recovery program offers a radical new path to sobriety. “You don… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- health
- nonfiction
- self help
"OK,"-Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
"Alcohol is the only drug in the world where, when you stop taking it, you are seen as having a disease."-Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
"...we've reached a tipping point--more [women] are aware of the terms of our own oppression and of our complicity in the oppression of others."-Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
"Americans aren't stupid. We are, however, preternaturally disposed to herd behavior (FOMO), with a strong desire to preserve a sense of individuality and maintain control over our decision making. We…"-Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
27. And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
By: Henry Marsh
3.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, comes Henry Marsh's And Finally, an unf… read more
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- audiobook
- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
28. Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
By: Suzanne Koven
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2021 A poignant and funny exploration of authenticity in … read more
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- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
"Who will I be when I have fewer patients? When I have no patients at all? It's often noted that "practice" as it relates to medicine has two meanings: the act of caring for patients and the doctor's …"-Suzanne Koven, Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
29. That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
By: Sunita Puri
4.48
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
As the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf be… read more
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- audiobook
- health care
- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
30. Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing
By: Victoria Sweet
4.20
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
A radical new understanding of how medicine is best practiced, by the award-winning author of God's… read more
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- audiobook
- self help
- health care
- memoir
- health
- medical
- medicine
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- science
31. Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation
By: Candy J. Cooper
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Based on original reporting by a Pulitzer Prize finalist and an industry veteran, the first book fo… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
