11 best-selling biography books like Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors by Caroline Elton

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Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors

By: Caroline Elton

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A psychologist's stories of doctors who seek to help others but struggle to help themselves. Fro…

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1. 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

Similar categories in Atul Gawande's Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science book and Caroline Elton's Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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2. Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

By: Henry Marsh

3.69

Format: 192 pages,

What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cu… read more

Similar categories in Henry Marsh's Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery book and Caroline Elton's Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction

3. Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor

By: None

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

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4. An Intimate History of Humanity

By: Theodore Zeldin

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

A provocative work that explores the evolution of emotions and personal relationships through diver… read more

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5. Your Life in My Hands

By: Rachel Clarke

3.85

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

'I am a junior doctor. It is 4 a.m. I have run arrest calls, treated life-threatening bleeding, hel… read more

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6. It's All in Your Head: True Stories of Imaginary Illness

By: Suzanne O'Sullivan

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

'Even if medical tests cannot explain your pain or tiredness or disability, it does not lessen your… read more

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7. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

Similar categories in Chris van Tulleken's Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food book and Caroline Elton's Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors

  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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8. Never Greener

By: Ruth Jones

3.95

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In her unmissable debut, actress and screenwriter Ruth Jones shows us the dangers of trying to reca… read more

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9. Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist

By: Ed Patrick

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

'Brilliantly funny.' - Matt Lucas'You have to read this book.' - Tim Harford'It's funny, touching a… read more

Similar categories in Ed Patrick's Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist book and Caroline Elton's Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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10. The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

By: Kerry Daynes

4.03

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the world of the forensic psychologist, where the people you meet are wildly unpredictab… read more

Similar categories in Kerry Daynes's The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist book and Caroline Elton's Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
"There is no them and us, it is just us."

-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

"It's a shithole but at least I can get a decent brew.' How very British, I thought to myself."

-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

"[t]he art of talking comes easier to some of us but others. For boys and men, so many of them still socialised in a myriad of destructive ways to hide weakness and took out their difficulties, the id…"

-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

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11. The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

By: Christie Watson

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably power… read more

Similar categories in Christie Watson's The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story book and Caroline Elton's Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors

  • biography
  • health care
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"We will meet people on the way: patients, relatives and staff - people you may recognize already. Because we are all nursed at some point in our lives. We are all nurses."

-Christie Watson, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

"It is impossible to describe exactly what I learn, though I know it lies somewhere between science and art. It is all about the smallest details and understanding how they make the biggest difference."

-Christie Watson, The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

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12. A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story

By: Polly Morland

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Fortunate Woman is a compelling, thoughtful and insightful look at the life and work of a country… read more

Similar categories in Polly Morland's A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story book and Caroline Elton's Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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13. The Alternatives

By: Caoilinn Hughes

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more

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14. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

By: James Rebanks

4.43

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in… read more

Similar categories in James Rebanks's Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey book and Caroline Elton's Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"There were profoundly important questions about the potential effects of each new technology that it was nobody's job to ask or answer. There was no mechanism for farmers or ecologists to judge wheth…"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

"There is something about planting trees that feels good. If you have done it well, it will outlast you and leave the world a little richer and more beautiful because of your efforts. Planting a tree …"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

"Agricultural education is still overwhelmingly about change and innovation, and "disruption," not what is sustainable and what will work in the long run. From the modernizing perspective, the student…"

-James Rebanks, Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey

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15. 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

Similar categories in Henry Marsh's And Finally: Matters of Life and Death book and Caroline Elton's Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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16. Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss

By: Rachel Clarke

4.47

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

As a specialist in palliative medicine, Dr Rachel Clarke chooses to inhabit a place many people wou… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Clarke's Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss book and Caroline Elton's Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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17. The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless

By: Christina Lamb

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

‘There will be an avalanche of books about the pandemic. None will be as eye-opening or humane or m… read more

Similar categories in Christina Lamb's The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless book and Caroline Elton's Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors

  • nonfiction
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18. Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors

By: Caroline Elton

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A psychologist's stories of doctors who seek to help others but struggle to help themselves. Fro… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Elton's Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors book and Caroline Elton's Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors

  • biography
  • health care
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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19. The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life

By: Rachel Clarke

4.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A riveting and inspiring true story of two families linked by one heart—written by a bestselling au… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Clarke's The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life book and Caroline Elton's Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors

  • biography
  • memoir
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
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20. The Reset

By: Jasmine Dennison

2.74

Format: 8 pages, Audible Audio

Sometimes you have to escape to be found. Kate wasn’t expecting a proposal, but when Rob pushed … read more

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13 Top nonfiction books like Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors by Caroline Elton

Transform Your Habits

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Atul Gawande , None

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

Henry Marsh

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist

Ed Patrick

4.26

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16 Top audiobook books like A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story by Polly Morland

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Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

Nina Stibbe

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

In Memoriam

Alice Winn

4.53

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