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Books of the Medical Field

Posted: 11 May 2018, 15:34
by Taylornic98
I am about to begin my first year of nursing school and have a love for learning about anything related to the medical field. I have been looking for medical books to read (preferably nonfiction), does anyone have any suggestions?

Re: Books of the Medical Field

Posted: 15 May 2018, 10:08
by ScoutWrites
Have you read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks? I haven't, but my aunt read it when she was in nursing school. She seemed really excited about it, so maybe it's something you would enjoy.

Re: Books of the Medical Field

Posted: 15 May 2018, 16:31
by Rumbly
Hmm these might not be helpful but here's some books / studies / short stories I read in my literature&medicine class when I was in college - I pretty much only read a few books mostly excerpts:

(books)
  • Atul Gawande's Complications (nonfiction)
    Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (fiction but with film)
    Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (fiction)
    David Feldshuh's Miss Evers' Boys(based on the Tuskegee experiment/ there's a film too)


(the rest are like short stories, many are from a book but I'm not sure which, you might able to find them online )
  • Sunsan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor
    Mike Oliver's The Invididual and Social Models of Disability & Face Blind (I believe this is in The Mind's Eye)
    Rita Charon's To Rend the Lives of Patients (nonfiction)
    Arthur Conan Doyle's A Medical Document (short story)
    Johnson's Unspeakable Conversations
    Orwell's How the Poor Die
    William Carlos Williams's Mind and Body & The Practice
    Rachel Aviv's God Knows Where I am (nonfiction short story)
    Jane Macnaughton's Why medical humanities now in Medical Humanities
    Anton Checkhov's A Doctor's Visit (short story)
    Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies
    Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper (short story)
    Crichton's Medical Days & Now and Then
    Gawande's When Doctors Make Mistakes & The Case of the Red Leg
    Singer's Happy Nevertheless
    Sacks's Anthrologoist on Mars & Face Blind
    Terkel's Working

Re: Books of the Medical Field

Posted: 27 Jun 2018, 17:54
by Mallory Porshnev
Maybe a bit disturbing, but just to get you in the mood...one of my favorite books Notes of a Country Doctor by Mikhail Bulgakov