6 Best memoir books like Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health by Leana Wen

Cover of Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health by Leana Wen

Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

By: Leana Wen

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From medical expert Leana Wen, MD., an insider’s account of public health and its crucial role—from…

If you liked the memoir plot in Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health by Leana Wen , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Managing Suicidal Risk: A Collaborative Approach

By: David A. Jobes , Edwin S. Shneidman

4.36

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

This clinical manual offers essential tools and guidance for therapists of any orientation faced wi… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T.R. Reid

2. The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

By: T.R. Reid

3.47

Format: 156 pages,

In The Healing of America, New York Timesbestselling author T. R. Reid shows how all the other indu… read more

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  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal

3. An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

By: Elisabeth Rosenthal

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

A New York Times bestseller "The definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.… read more

Similar categories in Elisabeth Rosenthal's An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back book and Leana Wen's Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • health
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4. To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation

By: Paul Farmer , Bill Clinton , Jonathan L. Weigel

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social ac… read more

Similar categories in Paul Farmer's To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation book and Leana Wen's Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science

5. Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years

By: Michael J. Collins

4.28

Format: 320 pages,

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6. A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca

By: Andrés Reséndez

3.68

Format: None pages,

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7. Lotería

By: Mario Alberto Zambrano

4.23

Format: 11 pages, Hardcover

A young girl tells the story of her family's tragic demise using a deck of cards of the eponymous M… read more

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8. Trouble According to Humphrey (According to Humphrey, #3)

By: Betty G. Birney

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

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9. How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind

By: Clancy Martin

3.71

Format: 431 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compu… read more

Similar categories in Clancy Martin's How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind book and Leana Wen's Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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10. 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

Similar categories in Ricardo Nuila's The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine book and Leana Wen's Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

  • science
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. 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

Similar categories in Anupam B. Jena's Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health book and Leana Wen's Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

  • science
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters

By: Susan Page

3.90

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time—Barbara Walters—a wo… read more

Similar categories in Susan Page's The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters book and Leana Wen's Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Health Communism

By: Beatrice Adler-Bolton

4.31

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Pane… read more

Similar categories in Beatrice Adler-Bolton's Health Communism book and Leana Wen's Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains by Bethany Brookshire

14. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains

By: Bethany Brookshire

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats t… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services―Notes of a Former Caseworker

By: Jessica Pryce

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow , a former caseworker’s searing, clear-eyed inves… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Pryce's Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services―Notes of a Former Caseworker book and Leana Wen's Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People by Noah Feldman

16. To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People

By: Noah Feldman

4.24

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A leading thinker’s witty, wide-ranging journey to understanding what it means to be a Jew today. … read more

Similar categories in Noah Feldman's To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People book and Leana Wen's Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series) by Thom Hartmann

17. The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)

By: Thom Hartmann

4.38

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and … read more

Similar categories in Thom Hartmann's The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series) book and Leana Wen's Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health by Leana Wen

18. Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

By: Leana Wen

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From medical expert Leana Wen, MD., an insider’s account of public health and its crucial role—from… read more

Similar categories in Leana Wen's Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health book and Leana Wen's Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

  • science
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice  Wong

19. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

By: Alice Wong

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire book and Leana Wen's Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • health
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20. Breathing Lessons: A Doctor's Guide to Lung Health

By: MeiLan K. Han M. D.

3.44

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative, accessible guide to how our lungs work and how to protect them. Every day, our lu… read more

Similar categories in MeiLan K. Han M. D.'s Breathing Lessons: A Doctor's Guide to Lung Health book and Leana Wen's Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

  • science
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. State of the Heart: Exploring the History, Science, and Future of Cardiac Disease

By: Haider Warraich

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“Haider Warraich's elegant and poignant book takes us on an unforgettable journey. A caring and tho… read more

Similar categories in Haider Warraich's State of the Heart: Exploring the History, Science, and Future of Cardiac Disease book and Leana Wen's Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science

9 must-read audiobook books like Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health by Leana Wen

Transform Your Habits

How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind

Clancy Martin

3.71

Transform Your Habits

The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine

Ricardo Nuila

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health

Anupam B. Jena

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters

Susan Page

3.90

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13 best-selling history books like State of the Heart: Exploring the History, Science, and Future of Cardiac Disease by Haider Warraich

Transform Your Habits

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

Lydia Kang , Nate Pedersen

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

Steven Johnson

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

Lindsey Fitzharris

3.44

Transform Your Habits

The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.22

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