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Mountains Beyond Mountains
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2003
“[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views . . . Kidder opens a window into Farmer’s soul, letting the reader peek in and see what truly makes the good doctor tick.”—Nicholas Thomas, USA Today
In medical school, Paul...
A Common Struggle
A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
In this New York Times bestseller Patrick J. Kennedy, the former congressman and youngest child of Senator Ted Kennedy, details his personal and political battle with mental illness and addiction, exploring mental health care's history in the country alongside his and every family's private struggles.
On...
by Patti Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Ronald Reagan’s daughter writes with a moving openness about losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease. The simplicity with which she reveals the intensity, the rush, the flow of her feelings encompasses all the surprises and complexities that ambush us when death gradually, unstoppably invades...
Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient
Reflections on Healing and Regeneration
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
National Book Award Finalist: The “amazing” New York Times bestseller about the power of laughter and optimism in fighting serious illness (Chicago Sun-Times).
Norman Cousins’s iconic firsthand account of victory against terminal disease, Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient...
Brain on Fire
My Month of Madness
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHLOË GRACE MORETZ
An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.
When twenty-four-year-old...
How to Change Your Mind
What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
**New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018
A New York Times Notable Book
The #1 New York Times bestseller.
A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing...
Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember
The Stroke That Changed My Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
A memoir of reinvention after a stroke at age thirty-three.
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on the morning of December 31, 2006. By that afternoon, she saw the world—quite literally—upside down. By New Year’s Day, she was unable to form a coherent sentence. And after hours...
Unthinkable
An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
An Amazon Best Nonfiction Book of the Month
Indiebound Bestseller
Award-winning science writer Helen Thomson unlocks the biggest mysteries of the human brain by examining nine extraordinary cases
Our brains are far stranger than we think. We take it for granted that we can remember,...
by Peter Piot
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
The story of a microbiologist’s remarkable career, from identifying ?the Ebola virus to pioneering AIDS research and policy.
When Peter Piot was in medical school, a professor warned, “There’s no future in infectious diseases. They’ve all been solved.” Fortunately, Piot ignored him,...
Slow Dancing with a Stranger
Lost and Found in the Age of Alzheimer's
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
A New York Times Bestseller
Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer’s advocate Meryl Comer’s Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to...
When My World Was Very Small
A Memoir of Family, Food, Cancer and My Couch
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
In the whirlwind of life with three young sons, an active member in her tight-knit community, Ruth Rakoff felt in supreme control of her wide world. But when a routine mammogram revealed a tumor, that world rapidly shrunk down to the size of one breast.
And so begins the journey...
Growing Up Again
Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
With generosity of spirit, ebullience, and sly humor, Mary Tyler Moore presents the intensely private, often funny, and sometimes startling story of her life with diabetes. Growing Up Again is a delightfully candid read for her legion of fans, the more than 20 million Americans with diabetes, and...
Front of the Class
How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
As a child with Tourette syndrome, Brad Cohen was ridiculed, beaten, mocked, and shunned. Children, teachers, and even family members found it difficult to be around him. As a teen, he was viewed by many as purposefully misbehaving, even though he had little power over the twitches and noises he produced,...
by Charles R. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
"Insightful and filled with verve...electrifying."—Wall Street Journal
Hailed as "an astute book of enormous importance" (Sherwin Nuland), The Surgeons follows the team at one of the world's premier cardiac surgery and transplant centers. Given unprecedented access, Charles...