Modern Medical Science - Nonfiction
Top 10 Modern Medical Science - Nonfiction
: Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales, Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers, Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It, Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis, Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon, The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age, Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, Island Practice: Cobblestone Rash, Underground Tom, and Other Adventures of a Nantucket Doctor, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
| Author | David Quammen |
| ISBN | 0393346617 |
“Science writing as detective story at its best.” —Jennifer Ouellette, Scientific American
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Scientific American Best Book of the Year, and a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Ebola, SARS, Hendra, AIDS, and countless...
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
| Author | Oliver Sacks |
| ISBN | 0684853949 |
If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it. Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to adapt to often bizarre worlds of neurological disorder. Here are people who...
Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Perlmutter, the devastating truth about the effects of wheat, sugar, and carbs on the brain, and a 4-week plan to achieve optimum health.
In Grain Brain, renowned neurologist David Perlmutter, MD, blows the lid off a finding that's been buried...
Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It
Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as “more than a terrific movie—it's an important movie.” Aided by expert commentators such as Michael Pollan...
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D.
The experience of being ill can...
| Author | Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa |
| ISBN | 0520271181 |
Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer. But not too long ago, he was Freddy, a nineteen-year-old undocumented migrant worker toiling in the tomato fields of central California. In this gripping...
The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
| Author | Nathan Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0805091947 |
Dynamic young Stanford biologist Nathan Wolfe reveals the surprising origins of the world's most deadly viruses, and how we can overcome catastrophic pandemics.
In The Viral Storm, award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe tells the story of how viruses and human beings have evolved side by...
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
| Author | Michael Moss |
| ISBN | 1400069807 |
Every year, the average American eats 33 pounds of cheese and 70 pounds of sugar. They ingest 8,500 milligrams of salt a day, double the recommended amount, almost none of which comes from salt shakers. It comes from processed food, an industry that hauls in $1 trillion in annual sales.
In Salt...
Island Practice: Cobblestone Rash, Underground Tom, and Other Adventures of a Nantucket Doctor
| Author | Pam Belluck |
| ISBN | 1586487515 |
ISLAND PRACTICE was optioned for a television series by Imagine Television ("Friday Night Lights," "24") and Fox Television. Screenwriter is Amy Holden Jones, acclaimed feature film writer whose movies include "Mystic Pizza" and "Indecent Proposal."
ISLAND PRACTICE audiobook is now...
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
| Author | David Eagleman |
| ISBN | 0307377334 |
Let me start with the easy stuff. On a literary note, this book is entertaining. However, it reads more like a series of interesting essays on neuroscience rather than a book.
Let me move on to the more interesting stuff. This book is deceptive. Eagleman uses a "slight of hand" writing style....
The Vitamin D Revolution: How the Power of This Amazing Vitamin Can Change Your Life
| Author | Soram Khalsa |
| ISBN | 1401924700 |
Recent, groundbreaking medical research has made a connection between Vitamin D deficiency and 17 types of cancers, including breast, colon, and prostate. Illnesses such as influenza, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and coronary heart disease have also been connected to a lack of this vitamin....
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
A New York Times bestseller
Winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction
A groundbreaking book that upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently.
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Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
| Author | Maya Dusenbery |
| ISBN | 0062470809 |
In this shocking, hard-hitting expose in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the editorial director of Feministing.com, reveals how gender bias infects every level of medicine and healthcare today—leading to inadequate, inappropriate, and even dangerous treatment that threatens...
This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
| Author | Kathleen McAuliffe |
| ISBN | 0544192222 |
Based on a wildly popular Atlantic article: an astonishing investigation into the world of microbes, and the myriad ways they control how other creatures — including humans — act, feel, and think
As we are now discovering, parasites — microbes that cannot thrive and reproduce...
| Author | Dave Hnida |
| ISBN | 1416599576 |
From dust jacket flap: In 2004, at the age of 48, Dr. Dave Hnida, a family physician from Littleton, Colorado, volunteered to be deployed to Iraq and spent a tour of duty as a battalion surgeon with a combat unit. In 2007, he went back, this time as a trauma chief at one of the busiest Combat Support Hospitals...
The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story
The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is the little known story of Victor Capesius, a Bayer pharmaceutical salesman from Romania who, at the age of 35, joined the Nazi SS in 1943 and quickly became the chief pharmacist at the largest death camp, Auschwitz. Based in part on previously classified documents, Patricia...
| Author | Vicki Oransky Wittenstein |
| ISBN | 1467706590 |
Experiment: A child is deliberately infected with the deadly smallpox disease without his parents' informed consent.
Result: The world's first vaccine.
Experiment: A slave woman is forced to undergo more than thirty operations without anesthesia.
Result: The beginnings of modern...
The Epigenetics Revolution
At the beginning of this century enormous progress had been made in genetics. The Human Genome Project finished sequencing human DNA. It seemed it was only a matter of time until we had all the answers to the secrets of life on this planet. The cutting-edge of biology, however, is telling us that we still...
On Call In Hell: A Doctor's Iraq War Story
| Author | Richard Jadick |
| ISBN | 0451220536 |
A riveting memoir from the Navy doctor praised as "Hero, M.D." on the cover of Newsweek.
Cdr. Richard Jadick's story is one of the most extraordinary to come out of the war in Iraq. At thirty-eight, the last place the Navy doctor was expected to be was on the front lines. He was too old to be called...
