Take a break from studying and enjoy one of these titles from our new Popular Reading collection!
The Popular Reading section can be found on the 2nd floor across from the Reference Collection.
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Agnes’s jacket : a psychologist’s search for the meanings of madness / Gail A. Hornstein. In a Victorian-era German asylum, seamstress Agnes Richter painstakingly stitched a mysterious autobiographical text into every inch of the jacket she created from her institutional uniform. Despite every attempt to silence them, hundreds of other patients have managed to get the… |
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Anatomy of an epidemic : magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illnes… Presents a controversial assessment of the rise in mental illness-related disabilities and considers if drug-based care may be fueling illness rates throughout the past half century. |
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An anthropologist on Mars : seven paradoxical tales / Oliver Sacks. The author profiles seven neurological patients, including a surgeon with Tourette’s syndrome and an artist whose color sense is destroyed in an accident but finds new creative power in black and white. |
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Attending children : a doctor’s education / Margaret E. Mohrmann. |
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Baby catcher : chronicles of a modern midwife / Peggy Vincent. In this engaging account of her career as a midwife, Vincent describes the hilarious, sometimes frightening, events surrounding the appearance of a new human being. |
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Becoming Dr. Q : my journey from migrant farm worker to brain surgeon / Alfredo Quiänones-Hinojosa ;… |
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Bedside manners : one doctor’s reflections on the oddly intimate encounters between patient and heal… |
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Blood and guts : a short history of medicine / Roy Porter. An eminently readable, entertaining romp through the history of our vain and valiant efforts to heal ourselves. Mankind’s battle to stay alive and healthy for as long as possible is our oldest, most universal struggle. With his characteristic wit and vastly informed historical sc… |
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The blue death : the intriguing past and present danger of the water you drink / Robert D. Morris. Environmental epidemiologist Morris chronicles the at times frightening story of our drinking water. He recounts the epidemics that have shaken cities and nations, the scientists who reached into the invisible and emerged with controversial truths that would save millions of live… |
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Bluebird : women and the new psychology of happiness / Ariel Gore. Explores the psychology of happiness in women, focusing particularly on whether an intelligent, empowered career woman can be happy in today’s modern world. |
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Bodies and barriers : dramas of dis-ease / edited by Angela Belli. |
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The body project : an intimate history of American girls / Joan Jacobs Brumberg. |
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Bonk : the curious coupling of science and sex / Mary Roach. Roach shows how and why sexual arousal and orgasm can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to make the bedroom a more satisfying place. |
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The boy who was raised as a dog : and other stories from a child psychiatrist’s notebook : what trau… Through real-life examples, a noted child psychiatrist and neuroscientist examines the impact of trauma on children’s brains, and reveals the innovative therapeutic techniques used to treat trauma-related psychiatric problems in children. |
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Breakthrough! : how the 10 greatest discoveries in medicine saved millions and changed our view of t… In this book, the author tells the hidden stories history’s most amazing medical discoveries. This isn’t dry history: these are life and death mysteries uncovered, tales of passionate, often mocked individuals who stood their ground and were proven right; they include a colorful … |
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Buddha’s brain : the practical neuroscience of happiness, love & wisdom / Rick Hanson with Richard M… |
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The charge of the parasols : women’s entry to the medical profession / Catriona Blake ; [foreword by… |
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The checklist manifesto : how to get things right / Atul Gawande. Reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist now being used in medicine, aviation, the armed services, homeland security, investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds. |
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Closing the chart : a dying physician examines family, faith, and medicine / Steven D. Hsi, with Jim… |
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Complications : a surgeon’s notes on an imperfect science / Atul Gawande. |
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Cutting for stone : a novel / Abraham Verghese. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mothers death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural conne… |
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Dead men do tell tales : the strange and fascinating cases of a forensic anthropologist / William R…. |
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The deadly dinner party & other medical detective stories / Jonathan A. Edlow. Some think that the work of a physician is like that of a scientist–based on careful observation leading to a hypothesis that is then tested to determine its veracity. The job of an emergency room physician, however, is more like that of a detective than a scientist. As an ER ph… |
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Deadly feasts : the “Prion” controversy and the public’s health / Richard Rhodes. |
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Decoding love : why it takes twelve frogs to find a prince and other revelations from the science of… Fairy tales and romantic stories have shaped our thinking about relationships for centuries. Researchers today are making fascinating, and often shocking, discoveries about how, why, and when we choose our partners. |
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The periodic table of the elements is a crowning scientific achievement, but it’s also a treasure trove of passion, adventure, obsession, and betrayal. These tales follow carbon, neon, silicon, gold, and all the elements in the table as they play out their parts in human history…. |
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The diving bell and the butterfly / Jean-Dominique Bauby ; translated from the French by Jeremy Legg… |
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Do gentlemen really prefer blondes? : bodies, behavior, and brains– the science behind sex, love, a… From the Publisher: How do the seasons affect your sex life? Is your lover more likely to get you pregnant than your husband? Are good dancers also good in bed? If you’ve ever wondered how scientists measure love-or whether men really prefer blonde’s-this smart, sexy book provid… |
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Einstein never used flash cards : how our children really learn–and why they need to play more and … Argues that current parenting trends that emphasize early learning through memorization and repetition are actually harmful for children, stifling their creativity and preventing them from learning basic problem solving skills and focuses on the importance of letting children pla… |
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The elephant in the room : stories about cancer patients and their Doctors / Jonathan Waxman. |
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The emerging mind / Vilayanur S. Ramachandran. |
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The emperor of all maladies : a biography of cancer / Siddhartha Mukherjee. A “biography” of cancer from its origins to the epic battle to cure, control, and conquer it. A combination of medical history, cutting-edge science, and narrative journalism that transforms the listener’s understanding of cancer and much of the world around them. The author prov… |
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Every patient tells a story : medical mysteries and the art of diagnosis / Lisa Sanders. |
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Everything I learned in medical school : besides all the book stuff / by Sujay M. Kansagra. |
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Evidence-based medicine in Sherlock Holmes’ footsteps / Jorgen Nordenstrom. This lively handbook on the fundamentals of Evidence based Medicine (EBM) leads the reader, step by step, through a process that proceeds from a patient’s medical history, via information searches and critical appraisal of the literature, to recommendations for treatment. Using … |
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A fortunate man : the story of a country doctor / John Berger, Jean Mohr. |
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Fourteen stories : doctors, patients, and other strangers / by Jay Baruch. |
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Friday forever : memoirs of madness. |
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Genetic rounds : a doctor’s encounters in the field that revolutionized medicine / Robert Marion. |
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The genetic strand : exploring a family history through DNA / Edward Ball. Chronicles the author’s personal experience with DNA testing and research into his own family, in an anecdotal study that traces his genealogical investigation into his paternal ancestry. |
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Genome : the autobiography of a species in 23 chapters / Matt Ridley. The human genome, the complete set of genes housed in twenty-three pairs of chromosomes, is nothing less than an autobiography of our species. Spelled out in a billion three-letter words using the four-letter alphabet of DNA, the genome has been edited, abridged, altered and adde… |
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The girls who went away : the hidden history of women who surrendered children for adoption in the d… This book brings to light the lives of 1.5 million single American women in the years following World War II who, under enormous social and family pressure, were coerced to give up their newborn children. It tells not of wild and carefree sexual liberation, but rather of a devast… |
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The glass castle : a memoir / Jeannette Walls. In the tradition of Mary Karr’s “The Liars’ Club” and Rick Bragg’s “All Over But the Shouting,” Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father and… |
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Goldberger’s war : the life and work of a public health crusader / Alan M. Kraut. |
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The great mortality : an intimate history of the Black Death, the most devastating plague of all tim… Chronicles the Great Plague that devastated Asia and Europe in the fourteenth century, documenting the experiences of people who lived during its height while describing the decline of moral boundaries that also marked the period. |
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The happiness project : or, why I spent a year trying to sing in the morning, clean my closets, figh… On the outside, Gretchen Rubin had it all–a good marriage, healthy children and a successful career–but something was missing. Determined to end that nagging feeling, she set out on a year-long quest to learn how to better enjoy the life she already had. Each month, Gretchen pu… |
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The hospital by the river : a story of hope / Catherine Hamlin with John Little. |
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The hot zone / Richard Preston. A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak … |
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The house of God / Samuel Shem. |
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Hurry down sunshine : a father’s story of love and madness / Michael Greenberg. ”Hurry Down Sunshine is an extraordinary family story and a memoir of exceptional power. In it, Michael Greenberg recounts in vivid detail the remarkable summer when, at the age of fifteen, his daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally’s sudden visionary crack-up on the stree… |
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I shall not hate : a Gaza doctor’s journey on the road to peace and human dignity / Izzeldin Abuelai… Born in a refugee camp in 1955, Palestinian physician Abuelaish suffers a catastrophic loss when three of his daughters are killed in their home by Israeli fire in 2009. An Israeli television journalist’s live broadcast of his call for help captures Israeli public and world press… |
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The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells–taken without her knowledge–became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, th… |
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An imperfect offering : humanitarian action for the twenty-first century / James Orbinski. Describes the author’s experiences as a doctor for Doctors Without Borders in countries such as Somalia, Afghanistan, and Rwanda; the conditions he witnessed; and the political roadblocks that prevented aid from reaching patients. From one of the world’s greatest humanitarian ac… |
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In defense of food : an eater’s manifesto / Michael Pollan. ”Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan’s thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food… |
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In stitches : a memoir / Anthony Youn with Alan Eisenstock. Tony Youn grew up up one of two Asian-American kids in a small town of near wall-to-wall whiteness. Too tall and too thin, he wore thick Coke-bottle glasses, braces, Hannibal Lecter headgear, and had a protruding jaw that one day began to grow, expanding Pinocchio-like, protrudin… |
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In the land of invisible women : a female doctor’s journey in the Saudi Kingdom / Qanta A. Ahmed. From the Publisher: “In this stunningly written book, a Western trained Muslim doctor brings alive what it means for a woman to live in the Saudi Kingdom. I’ve rarely experienced so vividly the shunning and shaming, racism and anti-Semitism, but the surprise is how Dr. Ahmed also… |
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Intern : a doctor’s initiation / Sandeep Jauhar. |
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The intern blues : the timeless classic about the making of a doctor / Robert Marion. |
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IQ : a smart history of a failed idea / Stephen Murdoch. |
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The island of the colorblind : and, Cycad island / by Oliver Sacks. |
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Kill as few patients as possible : and fifty-six other essays on how to be the world’s best doctor /… |
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Kitchen shrink : a psychiatrist’s reflections on healing in a changing world. |
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Last of his mind : a year in the shadow of alzheimer’s / John Thorndike. |
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Last rights : rescuing the end of life from the medical system / Stephen P. Kiernan. ”Up to the 1970s, most Americans died swiftly: of heart attacks, strokes, cancer, or in accidents. But in the past three decades, medical advances have extended our lives and changed the way we die. Journalist Kiernan reveals the disconnect between how patients want to live the e… |
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Laugh, sing, and eat like a pig : how an empowered patient beat stage IV cancer (and what healthcare… ”‘There’s something in your lung.’ With those words Dave deBronkart began an unwanted odyssey: metastatic kidney cancer had spread silently throughout his body. Online, he read that his median survival time was 24 weeks. Laugh, Sing and Eat Like a Pig is Dave’s story in his own w… |
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A leg to stand on / Oliver Sacks. |
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Letters of a Civil War surgeon / edited by Paul Fatout. |
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Listening in medicine : the whiplash mystery and other tales / Michael Livingston. |
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Look me in the eye : my life with Asperger’s / John Elder Robison. John Robison longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits had earned him the label “social deviant.” No guidance came from his mother, who conversed with light fixtures, or his father, who spent evenings drunk. No wonder he gravitated to … |
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The lost art of healing / Bernard Lown. |
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The making of a nurse / Tilda Shalof. Bestselling author of A Nurse’s Story is back with more insider stories. Tilda Shalof has been a caregiver all her life — at home for her family, at work for strangers — but her skills didn’t come easily. From when she was a child taking care of her sick parents to her current … |
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The man who grew two breasts : and other true tales of medical detection / Breton Rouechâe. |
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The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales / Oliver Sacks. In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century” (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat … |
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Meeting death : in hospice, hospital, and at home / Heather Robertson. |
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The midwife : a memoir of birth, joy, and hard times / Jennifer Worth ; clinical editor, Terri Coate… Reflects on the experiences of Jennifer Worth as a midwife in London’s postwar East End, including the nuns from whom she learned her craft and the interesting and challenging births she aided during her career. |
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The mindful medical student : a psychiatrist’s guide to staying who you are while becoming who you w… |
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Moloka’i / Alan Brennert. Seven-year-old Rachel is forcibly removed from her family’s 1890s Honolulu home when she contracts leprosy and is placed in a settlement, where she loses a series of new friends before new medical discoveries enable her to reenter the world. |
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Moonwalking with Einstein : the art and science of remembering everything / Joshua Foer. Having achieved the seemingly unachievable– becoming a U.S. Memory Champion– Foer shows how anyone with enough training and determination can achieve mastery of their memory. |
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Mutants : on genetic variety and the human body / Armand Marie Leroi. |
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My name Is Mary Sutter : a novel / Robin Oliveira. In this stunning historical novel, which opens on the eve of the Civil War, Mary Sutter is a brilliant, headstrong midwife from Albany, New York, who dreams of becoming a surgeon. Determined to overcome the prejudices against women in medicine and eager to run away from recent he… |
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Napoleon’s buttons : 17 molecules that changed history / Penny Le Couteur, Jay Burreson. Napoleon’s Buttons is the fascinating account of seventeen groups of molecules that have greatly influenced the course of history. These molecules provided the impetus for early exploration, and made possible the voyages of discovery that ensued. The molecules resulted in grand f… |
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Nobody’s child / Marie Balter and Richard Katz. |
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Not all of us are saints : a doctor’s journey with the poor / David Hilfiker. |
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NurtureShock : new thinking about children / Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman. Award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman demonstrate that many of modern society’s strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring–because key twists in the science of child development have been overlooked. The authors discuss the inverse power … |
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The omnivore’s dilemma : a natural history of four meals / Michael Pollan. What should we have for dinner? When you can eat just about anything nature (or the supermarket) has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety, especially when some of the foods might shorten your life. Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, Amer… |
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On call : a doctor’s days and nights in residency / Emily R. Transue. On Call begins with a newly-minted doctor checking in for her first day of residency–wearing the long white coat of an MD and being called “Doctor” for the first time. Having studied at Yale and Dartmouth, Dr. Emily Transue arrives in Seattle to start her internship in Internal … |
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Partners of the heart : Vivien Thomas and his work with Alfred Blalock : an autobiography / by Vivie… |
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Paws & effect : the healing power of dogs / Sharon Sakson. |
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Phantoms in the brain : probing the mysteries of the human mind / V.S. Ramachandran, and Sandra Blak… Dr. Ramachandran recounts how his work with patients who have bizarre neurological disorders has shed new light on the deep architecture of the brain, and what these findings tell us about who we are, how we construct our body image, why we laugh or become depressed, why we may b… |
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The red market : on the trail of the world’s organ brokers, bone thieves, blood farmers, and child t… A shocking tour through a macabre global underworld where organs, bones, and live people are bought and sold on the red market. Investigative journalist Scott Carney has spent five years tracing the lucrative and deeply secretive trade in human bodies and body parts. The Red Mark… |
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The reluctant surgeon : a biography of John Hunter / John Kobler. |
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Room : a novel / Emma Donoghue. It’s Jack’s birthday and he’s excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real. Until the day Ma admits that there’s … |
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Scent of the missing : love and partnership with a search-and-rescue dog / Susannah Charleson. In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Susannah Charleson clipped a photo from the newspaper: an exhausted canine handler, face buried in the fur of his search-and-rescue dog. A dog lover and pilot with search experience herself, Susannah was so moved by the image that she dec… |
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The science of evil : on empathy and the origins of cruelty / Simon Baron-Cohen. A path-breaking autism researcher explores why some people lack empathy and what that absence means for the psychological understanding of evil. |
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Singular intimacies : becoming a doctor at Bellevue / Danielle Ofri. |
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Something for the pain : compassion and burnout in the ER / Paul Austin. In this riveting memoir, an ER doctor reveals how his high-stress career of helping others led to a struggle to save himself. |
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Sowing the dragon’s teeth : land mines and the global legacy of war / Philip C. Winslow. |
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The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of… |
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A surgeon’s Civil War : the letters and diary of Daniel M. Holt, M.D. / edited by James M. Greiner, … |
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Survival of the sickest : a medical maverick discovers why we need disease / Sharon Moalem ; with Jo… Invites readers to change their perceptions about illness in order to understand disease as an essential component of the evolutionary process, citing the role of such malaises as diabetes, STDs, and the Avian Bird Flu in protecting the survival of the human race……. |
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Taking the medicine : a short history of medicine’s beautiful idea and our difficulty swallowing it … |
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Therapy pets : the animal-human healing partnership / by Jacqueline J. Crawford & Karen A. Pomerinke… Pets love us unconditionally. They’re always happy to see us, they encourage us when we’re feeling down, and their devotion is touching and reassuring. If this is true for the average pet owner, it is especially true for the disabled, handicapped, emotionally troubled, and seriou… |
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This book is overdue! : how librarians and cybrarians can save us all / Johnson, Marilyn. This book is a romp through the ranks of information professionals and a revelation for readers burned out on the clichâes and stereotyping of librarians. Here are bloggers, radicals and visionaries who fuse the tools of the digital age with their love for the written word and th… |
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This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust. An illuminating study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War. During the war, approximately 620,000 soldiers lost their lives. An equivalent proportion of today’s population would be… |
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Turn of mind / Alice LaPlante. Implicated in the murder of her best friend, Jennifer White, a brilliant retired surgeon with dementia, struggles with fractured memories of their complex relationship and wonders if she actually committed the crime. |
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Uncle Tungsten : memories of a chemical boyhood / Oliver Sacks. Long before Oliver Sacks became a neurologist and one of our finest science writers, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals — and also by chemical reactions, the louder and smellier the better. His curiosity was encouraged and abetted by brilliantly quirky relatives: Au… |
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The undertaking : life studies from the dismal trade / Thomas Lynch. |
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An unquiet mind / Kay Redfield Jamison. |
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Violence : reflections on a national epidemic / James Gilligan. |
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Virus hunter : thirty years of battling hot viruses around the world / C.J. Peters and Mark Olshaker… From Central and South America to a deadly outbreak of a mystery virus in the American Southwest, from fieldwork in Egypt and the mountains of Kenya to immobilizing an army unit to stop a gut-wrenching outbreak of Ebola only miles from Washington, D.C., this book takes us backsta… |
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Voice for the mad : the life of Dorothea Dix / David Gollaher. Describing in horrifying detail the conditions she witnessed in jails, prisons, and asylums, this biography of Dorothea Dix documents her crusade to help the impoverished mentally ill by lobbying legislatures and soliciting funds that ultimately created thirty state asylums. |
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War hospital : a true story of surgery and survival / Sheri Fink. |
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The way I see it : a personal look at autism & Asperger’s / Temple Grandin. Dr. Temple Grandin discusses how and why people with autism think differently, economical early intervention programs, how sensory sensitivities affect learning, the difference between bad behavior and bad behavior caused by a disability, teaching people with autism how to live i… |
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We band of angels : the untold story of American nurses trapped on Bataan by the Japanese / Elizabet… Celebrates the heroism of the Army and Navy nurses imprisoned for three years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. |
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What patients taught me : a medical student’s journey / Audrey Young. |
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When the air hits your brain : tales of neurosurgery / Frank T. Vertosick, Jr. |
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Why hospitals should fly : the ultimate flight plan to patient safety and quality care / by John J. … |
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Wicked bugs : the louse that conquered Napoleon’s army & other diabolical insects / Amy Stewart ; et… In this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world, Stewart has tracked down over one hundred of our worst entomological foes creatures that infest, infect, and generally wreak havoc on human affairs. From the world’s most painful hornet, … |
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The woman with a worm in her head : and other true stories of infectious diseases / Pamela Nagami ; … Because i’m a doctor who specializes in infectious diseases I know the particular geography of the body under siege. I’ve seen the way tissue killed by gas-producing bacteria crackles under the finger like a ball of cellophane. I know the smell of a staph infection and how to see… |
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The year of magical thinking / Joan Didion. |
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Year of wonders : a novel of the plague / by Geraldine Brooks. |
