Medical Narratives to Examine

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These books deal with issues beyond the science of medicine. They discuss the more subjective ethical, historical, and personal aspects of healing and illness; life and death. All of these titles are located in the Adult Nonfiction section of the Library unless otherwise noted.

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Barry, John M. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History. 2004. (614.51809 B).
     Also available: CD

Brabner, Joyce. Our Cancer Year. 1994.
(Adult Graphic Novel 362.196994 B).

Broyard, Anatole. Intoxicated By My Illness: And Other Writings on Life and Death.
1992. (362.19699463 B).

Carter, Zoe Fitzgerald. Imperfect Endings: a Daughter's Tale of Life and Death.
2010. (616.858445 C).

Chen, Pauline. Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality. 2007. (617.092 C).

Cousins, Norman. Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration. 1979. (362.19677 C).

Eule, Brian. Match Day: One Day and One Dramatic Year in the Lives of Three New Doctors. 2009. (610.922 E).

Gawande, Atul. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance. 2007. (616 G).
     Also available: CD

Glasser, Ronald. The Light in the Skull: an Odyssey of Medical Discovery.
1997. (610.9 G).

Graboys, Thomas. Life in the Balance: A Physician’s Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss with Parkinson’s Disease and Dementia. 2008. (B G7288Li).

Grob, Gerald N. The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America. 2002.
(616.0097 G).

Groopman, Jerome. How Doctors Think. 2007. (610 G).
     Also available: CD, eAudiobook

Hager, Thomas. The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor’s Heroic Search for the World’s First Miracle Drug. 2006.
(615.2723 H).

Hayden, Deborah. Pox: Genius, Madness, and the Mysteries of Syphilis. 2003.
(616.9513 H).

Heron, Echo. Tending Lives: Nurses on the Medical Front. 1998. (610.73 H).

Jauhar, Sandeep. Intern: A Doctor's Initiation. 2008. (610.92 J).

Kolata, Gina Bari. Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It. 1999. (614.51809 K).

Lax, Eric. The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle.
2004. (615.32923 L).

Magliato, Kathy. Healing Hearts: A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon.
2010. (617.412092 M).

Martensen, Robert L. A Life Worth Living: A Doctor's Reflections on Illness in a High-tech Era. 2008. (616 M).

Montross, Christine. Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab. 2007. (611 M).

Morris, Charles B. The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center. 2007.
(617.092 M).

Nuland, Sherwin B. The Art of Aging: A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being.
2007. (305.26 N).
     Also available: CD, eAudiobook

Ofri, Danielle. Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue. 2003.
(610.92 O).

Oshinsky, David M. Polio: An American Story. 2005. (614.549 O).

Roach, Mary. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. 2003. (611 R).
     Also available: CD

Sacks, Oliver. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. 2007.
(781.11 S).
     Also available: CD

Shenk, David. The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic. 2001. ( 616.831 S).

The Soul of a Doctor: Harvard Medical Students Face Life and Death.
2006. (610.922 S).

Verghese, A. My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDs. 1994. (362.1969792 V).