The Measure of Our Days: A Spiritual Exploration of Illness
10 best books like The Measure of Our Days: A Spiritual Exploration of Illness (Jerome Groopman): Bedside Manners: One Doctor's Reflections on the Oddly Intimate Encounters Between Patient and Healer, Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial, Body Brokers: Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains, Hippocrates' Shadow: What Doctors Don't Know, Don't Tell You, and How Truth Can Repair the Patient-Doctor Breach, The Healing Power of Humor, The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995, Coming to Term: Uncovering the Truth About Miscarriage, The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying, Slamming Open the Door, How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies
Bedside Manners: One Doctor's Reflections on the Oddly Intimate Encounters Between Patient and Healer
| Author | David Watts |
| ISBN | 1400080525 |
Have you ever wondered what life is like on the other side of the stethoscope?
Combining the grace and precision of a poet with a down-to-earth, compassionate manner, physician and NPR commentator David Watts reveals what it’s really like to be a doctor today. From difficult diagnoses,...
| Author | Mark Harris |
| ISBN | 0743277686 |
By the time Nate Fisher was laid to rest in a woodland grave sans coffin in the final season of "Six Feet Under, " Americans all across the country were starting to look outside the box when death came calling."Grave Matters" follows families who found in "green" burial a more natural, more economic, and...
Body Brokers: Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains
| Author | Annie Cheney |
| ISBN | 0767917332 |
“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.” —Epictetus
“Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will follow.” —Matthew 24:28
Body Brokers is an audacious, disturbing, and compellingly written investigative exposé of the lucrative business of procuring, buying,...
Hippocrates' Shadow: What Doctors Don't Know, Don't Tell You, and How Truth Can Repair the Patient-Doctor Breach
| Author | David H. Newman |
| ISBN | 1416551530 |
Everyone knows of the Hippocratic Oath, the famous invocation sworn by all neophyte physicians. But most don't realize that the father of modern medicine was an avid listener and a constant bedside presence. Hippocrates believed in the doctor-patient connection and gained worldwide renown for...
| Author | Allen Klein |
| ISBN | 0874775191 |
Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand (Mark Twain)
So what makes a person "funny." This author has a good take on this debate. He believes that bad comics laugh at their jokes and hope the audience joins him in the hilarity. Good comics react to their audience, know their audience...
| Author | Martin Gardner |
| ISBN | 0312169493 |
In The Night Is Large, Martin Gardner has assembled forty-seven challenging and inquisitive essays into a work that places him at the heart of twentieth-century American intellectual culture. Delving into an immense range of topics, from philosophy and literature to social criticism to mathematics...
| Author | Jon Cohen |
| ISBN | 0618277242 |
After his wife lost four pregnancies, Jon Cohen set out to gather the most comprehensive and accurate information on miscarriage – a topic shrouded in myth, hype, and uncertainty. The result of his mission is a uniquely revealing and inspirational book for every woman who has lost at least one pregnancy...
| Author | Lynne Ann DeSpelder |
| ISBN | 0072920963 |
This book was an incredibly informative read. The subject of death can be a difficult one to study, and there were definitely parts during the book that I was feeling uncomfortable. Yet, to explore something so human was fascinating. We will all face death at some point, or someone in our life will, this...
| Author | Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno |
| ISBN | 1882295749 |
The author's daughter was murdered just as she was beginning her career as a nurse. The entire very short book is a series of poems describing the death, funeral, trial, and aftermath. All the time I was reading it, I had such a confused feeling because the poetry was so beautiful, but the pain was so real,...
| Author | Therese A. Rando |
| ISBN | 0553352695 |
Mourning the death of a loved one is a process all of us will go through at one time or another. But whether the death is sudden or anticipated, few of us are prepared for it or for the grief it brings. There is no right or wrong way to grieve. Each person's response to loss will be different. Now, in this compassionate,...
| Author | Sophie Walker |
| ISBN | 1608682250 |
By the time her daughter Grace was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, Sophie Walker’s life had unraveled. Her career was in disarray. She couldn’t sleep. She felt hopeless and useless in her role as a mother. Sophie began to seek the things Grace needed — everything from advocacy for her educational...
| Author | Bob Deits |
| ISBN | 0306813149 |
Loss can be overwhelming, and recovery sometimes seems terribly daunting, if not impossible. But Bob Deits demonstrates that the only way past grief is through it. In this newly revised edition of Life after Loss, Deits offers sound guidance for navigating the uncertain terrain of grief. With practical...
| Author | Daniel Gottlieb |
| ISBN | 1454906391 |
What if the things you imagine will make you happy won't—if what you really need is not what you think you need? Daniel Gottlieb (Letters to Sam) has produced an inspirational primer that takes us on an enlightening journey toward a sense of well-being. Gottlieb, who suffered a traumatic injury that...
| Author | John O'Donohue |
| ISBN | 0553813099 |
In this eagerly awaited follow-up to his international bestsellers Anam Cara and Eternal Echoes, John O'Donohue turns his attention to the subject of beauty - the divine beauty that calls the imagination and awakens all that is noble in the human heart.
In these uncertain times of global conflict...
| Author | Saki Santorelli |
| ISBN | 0609805045 |
Today we are experiencing extraordinary technological advances in the diagnosis and treatment of illness while at the same time learning to take more responsibility for our own health and well-being. In this book, Saki Santorelli, director of the nationally acclaimed Stress Reduction Clinic,...
Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
| Author | Danielle Ofri |
| ISBN | 0142004383 |
When Danielle Ofri enters the doors of New York's legendary Bellevue Hospital as a tentative medical student, she is plunged into the teeming world of urban medicine: mysterious illnesses, patients speaking any one of a dozen languages, overworked interns devising audacious strategies to cope...
Member of the Club: Reflections on Life in a Racially Polarized World
| Author | Lawrence Otis Graham |
| ISBN | 0060984309 |
Informed and driven by his experience as an upper-middle-class African American who lives and works in a predominately white environment, provocative author Lawrence Otis Graham offers a unique perspective on the subject of race. An uncompromising work that will challenge the mindset of every...
How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick
| Author | Letty Cottin Pogrebin |
| ISBN | 1610392833 |
Everyone knows someone who’s sick or suffering. Yet when a friend or relative is under duress many of us feel uncertain about how to cope.
Throughout her recent bout with breast cancer, Letty Cottin Pogrebin became fascinated by her friends’ and family’s diverse reactions to her and...
The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us about Life After Loss
| Author | George A. Bonanno |
| ISBN | 0465013600 |
We tend to understand grief as a predictable five-stage process of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. But in The Other Side of Sadness, George Bonanno shows that our conventional model discounts our capacity for resilience. In fact, he reveals that we are already hardwired to...
Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age
| Author | James Carroll |
| ISBN | 0670786039 |
A New York Times bestselling and widely admired Catholic writer explores how we can retrieve transcendent faith in modern times
Critically acclaimed and bestselling author James Carroll has explored every aspect of Christianity, faith, and Jesus Christ except this central one: What can...
Secular Buddhism: Imagining the Dharma in an Uncertain World
| Author | Stephen Batchelor |
| ISBN | 0300223234 |
An essential collection of Stephen Batchelor’s most probing and important work on secular Buddhism
As the practice of mindfulness permeates mainstream Western culture, more and more people are engaging in a traditional form of Buddhist meditation. However, many of these people have...
Way Below the Angels: The Pretty Clearly Troubled But Not Even Close to Tragic Confessions of a Real Live Mormon Missionary
When Craig Harline set off on his two-year Mormon mission to Belgium in the 1970s, he had big dreams of doing miracles, converting the masses, and coming home a hero. What he found instead was a lot of rain and cold, one-sentence conversations with irritated people, and silly squabbles with fellow missionaries.
From...
Behaving as If the God in All Life Mattered
| Author | Machaelle Small Wright |
| ISBN | 0927978245 |
Machaelle Small Wright is a spiritual pioneer with the profound ability to "see" and "hear" the invisible forces of nature. Her personal story is one of triumph, from a childhood of torment and isolation to discovery of her ability to communicate with the world of nature spirits and devas. At "Perelandra,"...
