The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor
By: Arthur Kleinman
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A moving memoir and an extraordinary love story that shows how an expert physician became a family …
Want to Read $ 13.99"The most important thing offered by a caregiver is simply their complete presence"-Arthur Kleinman, The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor
"The most important thing offered by a caregiver is simply their complete presence"-Arthur Kleinman, The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor
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1. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
By: Atul Gawande
4.49
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
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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. Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
By: João Biehl , Torben Eskerod
3.41
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
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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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4. Righteous Dopefiend
By: Philippe Bourgois , Jeffrey Schonberg
3.70
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the cont… read more
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5. What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
By: Danielle Ofri
3.90
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
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6. 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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7. 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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8. The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
By: Bruce D. Perry , Maia Szalavitz
4.80
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
What happens when a young brain is traumatized? How does terror, abuse, or disaster affect a child'… read more
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9. Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
By: Irvin D. Yalom
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
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10. Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between
By: Theresa Brown
4.18
Format: 411 pages,
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11. Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
By: Ruha Benjamin
4.47
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An inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world--one small change at a time Long befor… read more
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12. How I Won a Nobel Prize
By: Julius Taranto
3.55
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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13. Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain
By: Dasha Kiper
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
These “moving and often surprising” ( The Wall Street Journal ) case histories meld science and sto… read more
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14. Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen
By: Dan Heath
4.15
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
So often in life, we get stuck in a cycle of response. We put out fires. We deal with emergencies. … read more
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15. Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
By: Louise Aronson
3.97
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's E… read more
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16. 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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"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
17. Pollution Is Colonialism
By: Max Liboiron
4.50
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
In Pollution is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research… read more
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18. Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru
By: Mark Rice
3.84
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
Speaking at a 1913 National Geographic Society gala, Hiram Bingham III, the American explorer celeb… read more
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19. The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
By: Sue Stuart-Smith
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener offers an inspiring and consoling work about the hea… read more
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20. The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor
By: Arthur Kleinman
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A moving memoir and an extraordinary love story that shows how an expert physician became a family … read more
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"The most important thing offered by a caregiver is simply their complete presence"-Arthur Kleinman, The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor
21. Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence
By: Rachel Sherman
3.62
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their own wealth and place in society Fr… read more
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