MMR: Science and Fiction - Exploring a Vaccine Crisis Richard Horton Granta Books, 2004 The publication of Andrew Wakefield's work in The Lancet in 1998 inadvertently triggered a collapse of public confidence in the MMR vaccine. Six years into this health crisis, a key and much disputed part of the report was retracted. Now The Lancet's editor, Dr Richard Horton, considers the implications of this affair. Horton is an advocate of the MMR (his own child has had the triple vaccine) ...             The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory14 reviews Aleksandr R. Luria, Jerome Bruner Harvard University Press, 2006 Just one story + A little book about S + Fascinating case study and book + Very Interesting             The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) William Bynum Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times, through the scholastic medieval tradition and the Enlightenment to the present day. Taking a thematic rather than strictly chronological approach, W.F. Bynum, explores the key turning points in the history of Western medicine-such as the ...             An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales48 reviews Oliver Sacks Vintage, 1996 Insights into the Minds of Amazing People + Quick Read! :) + More of the fascinating same from Oliver Sacks + Incredible experiences + amazingly inspirational             Letters to a Young Doctor (Harvest Book)6 reviews Richard Selzer Harvest/HBJ Book, 1996 Notes from a veteran doctor's perspective, excellent writing + Pretty special... + For anyone in the human 'helps' professions + Selzer prepares medical hopefuls for the art of surgery.             Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery12 reviews Richard Selzer Harcourt, 1996 Lessons of our own mortality and the human condition + Beautiful book + reality of human life + Must read for all medical professionals             Second Opinion: Doctors, Diseases, and Decisions in Modern Medicine Richard C. Horton Granta Books, 2003 Richard Horton, for many years editor of "The Lancet", examines the history of the relationship between doctor and patient, from ancient times to present day. The essays cover subjects including: the impact of modern warfare on health services; the debate over euthanasia; controversies over HIV and Aids; the human genome project; and the debate over the gay gene. Horton's introduction explores ...             How Doctors Think160 reviews Jerome Groopman Mariner Books, 2008 Without risking failure there is zero chance of success + A Patient and Doctor MUST READ + Excellent for doctors and patients + Learning to Think Straight             A Journey Round My Skull (New York Review Books Classics)3 reviews Frigyes Karinthy NYRB Classics, 2008 Fascinating and insightful + The view from the outside in I purchased this book because, upon browsing it in the bookstore, it mirrored much of my experience with seizures and brain surgery. His descriptions and the unreal experience of having a brain disease hit the bulls eye. The floating, stream of conciousness-like storytelling brings home the ...             Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind95 reviews V. S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee Harper Perennial, 1999 engaging and intrguing + An Exciting and Entertaining Foray into the Mind + Are there phantoms in our brain or is our self a phantom? + Good for those considering Cognitive Science as a major + And the point is....             Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor (Letters to a Young...)3 reviews Perri Klass Basic Books, 2008 "When all else fails, look at the patient." + Excellent + The Doctor as The Mom Next Door Harvard Medical School graduate Perri Klass is a pediatrician as well as a wife and mother. In "Treatment Kind and Fair--Letters to a Young Doctor," the author shares the considerable wisdom that she has acquired over the years. Dr. Klass practiced primary care pediatrics in Boston for more than a ...             Awakenings22 reviews Oliver Sacks Vintage, 1999 Essential Scientific Reading For Those Living With Parkinsonian Conditions or People Seeking a Scientific Understanding of Them + A deeper dive into the disease + Most of the people who bought this book........... + The book version of the movie             Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism21 reviews Temple Grandin Vintage, 2006 Fascinating Book - Very Accessible + What an amazing person! + The Best + a great discovery + Temple Grandin's Thinking in Pictures             Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance82 reviews Atul Gawande Picador, 2008 Another Great Look Inside the Medical Profession + Atul Probes Deeply + Fascinating. Must read. Classic. + The progress of medical science + Better: Diligence, Doing Right and Ingenuity             The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review2 reviews Bellevue Literary Press, 2008 Profoundly Moving + Brilliant, tragic, familiar, yet soothing A 2008 anthology of ~90 short stories, essays, and poems drawn from the NYU School of Medicine's semi-annual literary journal. Each entry deals in some way with illness or coping, although sometimes minimally and often peripherally. There are doctors and hospitals, but most of the pieces are ...             Hippocratic Writings (Penguin Classics)2 reviews Various Penguin Classics, 1984 Ancient Book that Remains Relevant + Taste of Ancient Western Medicine For a book compiled in the 4th/3rd centuries B.C. it is interesting (but not surprising) how relevant this book remains, for sickness and the effort to heal are enduring aspects of the human condition. "The Oath" at the beginning sets out some basic precepts, including: "I will not give a fatal ...             How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter67 reviews Sherwin B. Nuland Vintage, 1995 For Physicians and Patients Alike... + Great read; very interesting and thought provoking + Comforting + Facing the end of life             The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales111 reviews Oliver Sacks Touchstone, 1998 What the maladaptive can teach us + At times dry, but very interesting overall + What the maladaptive can teach us + A Captivating, yet Redundant, Dive into the World of Disorders             The Medical Detective Sandra Hempel Granta Books, 2007 In 1831, an unknown, horrifying and deadly disease from Asia swept across Continental Europe, killing millions in its path, and throwing the medical profession into confusion. Cholera is a killer with little respect for class or wealth, and when it arrived in Britain, its repercussions rocked Victorian England, from the filthy lanes of the Sunderland quayside and the squalid streets of Soho to ...             Medicine and Western Civilization Rutgers University Press, 1996