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GOOD BOOKS IN HEALTH AND MEDICINE |
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In his Good Books: A Book Lover's Companion (1982) Steven Gilbar asks "What do I mean by good? Not morally good, and not academically good, and not simply popular, although the book I recommend may have one or all of those qualities. 'Rewarding and pleasurable' - those terms I think characterize the books I am recommending." The titles he lists under Health and Medicine are grouped in the following sub-categories: Health and Medicine (In General), Infectious Diseases and Epidemics, Encounters with Illness, Cancer, Cardiovascular Problems, Exceptional Children, Blindness, Alcoholism, Drug Use, Mental Disintegration, Psychoanalysis, Death, and Suicide.
HEALTH AND MEDICINE (IN GENERAL)
Boyd, Doug
Rolling Thunder: A Personal Exploration into the
Secret Healing Powers of an American Indian
Medicine Man. 1974
Correy, Lee
Space Doctor. 1981
Crichton, Michael
The Andromeda Strain. 1969
Dubos, Rene
Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological
Change. 1959
Duffy, John
The Healers: The Rise of the Medical Establishment.
1976
Fisher, M. F. K.
A Cordiall Water: A Garland of Odd and Old Recipes
Assuage the Ills of Man and Beast. 1961
Flexner, James Thomas Doctors
on Horseback: Pioneers of American Medicine.
1937
Glasser, Ronald
The Body Is the Hero. 1976
Goodfield, June
An Imagined World: A Story of Scientific Discovery.
1981
Le Baron, Charles
Gentle Vengeance. 1981
Miller, Jonathan
The Body in Question. 1979
Moliere
The Imaginary Invalid. 1673
Nolen, William A.
The Making of a Surgeon. 1971
Nourse, Alan
The Bladerunner. 1974
Roueche, Berton
Eleven Blue Men and Other Narratives of Medical
Detection. 1954
Selzer, Richard
Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery. 1976
Shainberg, Lawrence
Brain Surgeon: An Intimate View of His World. 1979
Time-Life Editors
Life Library of Health. 1980-
Toynbee, Polly
Patients. 1977
Young, James H.
The Medical Messiahs. 1967
INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND EPIDEMICS
Camus, Albert
The Plague. 1948
De Kruif, Paul
Microbe Hunters. 1926
Giono, Jean
Horseman on the Roof. 1954
McNeill, William H.
Plagues and People. 1976
Powell, John H.
Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow
Fever in Philadelphia in 1793. 1950
Shurkin, Joel N.
The Invisible Fire. 1979
Stewart, George R.
Earth Abides. 1949
Swift, Jonathan
A Journal of the Plague Year. 1722
Vallery-Radot, Pasteur
Louis Pasteur: A Great Life in Brief. 1958
Zinsser, Hans
Rats, Lice and History. 1935
ENCOUNTERS WITH ILLNESS
Cousins, Norman
Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient:
Reflections on Healing and Regeneration. 1979
Ellis, A. E.
The Rack. 1959
Massie, Robert, Suzaanne Journey. 1975
Massie
Mee, Charles L., Jr.
Seizure. 1979
White, Robin
Be Not Afraid. 1972
CANCER
Alsop, Stewart
Stay of Execution: A sort of Memoir. 1974
Cook, Stephani
Second Life. 1981
Israel, Lucien
Conquering Cancer. 1978
Lee, Laurel
Walking Through Fire. 1977
Lund, Doris
Eric. 1974
Rollin, Betty
First You Cry. 1976
Ryan, Cornelius
A Private Battle. 1978
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
The Cancer Ward. 1968
Sontag, Susan
Illness as Metaphor. 1979
Wolitzer, Hilma
Ending. 1974
CARDIOVASCULAR PROBLEMS
The American Heart Assoc. Heartbook: A Guide to Prevention
and Treatment of
Cardiovascular Disease. 1980
Halberstam, Michael,
A Coronary Event. 1976
Stephan Lesher
Hodgins, Eric
Episode: Report on an Accident Inside My Skull. 1969
Lear, Martha Weinman
Heartsounds. 1980
MacKenzie, Rachel
Risk. 1971
EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN
Axline, Virginia
Dibs: In Search of Self. 1970
Featherstone, Helen
A Difference in the Family: Life With a Disabled
Child. 1980
Greenfield, Josh
A Child Called Noah. 1972
Hill, Archie
Closed World of Love. 1977
Killilea, Marie
Karen. 1952
BLINDNESS
Bjarnhof, Karl
The Stars Grow Pale. 1958
Butler, Beverly
Light a Single Candle. 1962
Chevigny, Hector
My Eyes Have a Cold Nose. 1946
Green, Henry
Blindness. 1926
Keller, Helen
The Story of My Life. 1903
Kendrick, Baynard H. Odor of Violets. 1941
Mehta, Ved
Face to Face. 1957
Potok, Andrew
Ordinary Daylight: Portrait of an Artist Going Blind.
1980
Russell, Robert
To Catch an Angel: Adventures in a World I Cannot
See. 1962
Yates, Elizabeth
The Lighted Heart. 1960
ALCOHOLISM
Fitzgibbon, Constantine
Drink. 1979
Goodwin, Donald W.
Alcoholism: The Facts. 1981
Jackson, Charles
The Lost Weekend. 1944
Lowry, Malcolm
Under the Volcano. 1947
O'Hara, John
Appointment in Samarra. 1934
Rebeta-Burditt, Joyce
The Cracker Factory. 1977
Straus, Robert
Escape from Custody. 1974
Weiner, Jack B.
Drinking. 1976
Yates, Richard
Disturbing the Peace. 1975
Zola, Emile
The Dram-Shop (L'Assommoir). 1877
DRUG USE
Abel, Ernest L.
Marihuana: The First Twelve Thousand Years. 1981
Burroughs, William
Junkie. 1953
De Quincey, Thomas
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. 1822
Harris, David
The Last Scam. 1981
Huxley, Aldous
The Doors of Perception. 1954
Lamb, F. Bruce
Wizard of the Amazon: The Story of Manuel
Cordova-Rios. 1974
MENTAL DISINTEGRATION
Atwood, Margaret
Surfacing. 1972
Beers, Clifford
A Mind that Found Itself. 1908
Dostoevski, Fedor
The Double. 1846
Gibson, Margaret
The Butterfly Ward. 1980
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins The Yellow
Wallpaper. 1892
Gogol, Nikolai
Diary of a Madman. 1835
Green, Hannah
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. 1972
Howland, Bette
W-3. 1974
Jackson, Shirley
The Bird's Nest. 1954
Kafka, Franz
The Metamorphosis. 1915
Kesey, Ken
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. 1962
Keyes, Daniel
The Minds of Billy Milligan. 1981
Lessing, Doris
Briefing for a Descent into Hell. 1971
Neufeld, John
Lisa, Bright and Dark. 1969
Plath, Sylvia
The Bell Jar. 1971
Poe, Edgar Allan
The Tell-Tale Heart. 1843
Sigal, Clancy
Zone of the Interior. 1976
Stevenson, Robert Louis
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 1886
Ward, Mary Jane
The Snake Pit. 1946
Wechsler, James et al
In a Darkness. 1972
PSYCHOANALYSIS
Balchin, Nigel
Mine Own Executioner. 1945
Clark, Ronald W.
Freud: The Man and the Cause. 1980
Flugel, John
The Psychology of Clothes. 1930
Freud, Anna
Psychoanalysis for Parents and Teachers. 1935
Freud, Sigmund
Psychopathology of Everyday Life. 1914
Fuller, Peter
Art and Psychoanalysis. 1981
H. D.
Tribute to Freud: With Unpublished Letters by Freud
to the Author. 1951
Jung, C. G.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections. 1963
Kaplan, Louise
Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual.
1978
Le Guin, Ursula K.
The Lathe of Heaven. 1971
Malcolm, Janet
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession. 1981
Rycroft, Charles
The Innocence of Dreams. 1979
Sechehaye, Marguerite
Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl. 1970
Svevo, Italo
The Confession of Zeno. 1923
Thomas, D. M.
The White Hotel. 1981
DEATH
Agee, James
A Death in the Family. 1957
Becker, Ernest
The Denial of Death. 1973
Buck, Pearl
A Bridge for Passing. 1962
Caine, Lynn
Widow. 1974
Cook, Bruce, Diane
Death Row. 1980
Christian
Craven, Margaret
I Heard the Owl Call My Name. 1973
Cristofer, Michael
The Shadow Box. 1978
Gunther, John
Death Be Not Proud. 1949
Kapleau, Philip, ed.
The Wheel of Death: A Collection of Writing from
Zen Buddhism and Other Sources on Death,
Rebirth, Dying. 1971
Kluge, Eike-Henner W.
The Ethics of Death. 1975
Krementz, Jill
How it Feels When a Parent Dies. 1981
Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth
On Death and Dying. 1969
Leca, Ange-Pierre
The Egyptian Way of Death: Mummies and the Cult
of the Immortal. 1981
Lerner, Gerda
A Death of One's Own: Fragments from My Life.
1978
Moody, Raymond A., Jr. Life After
Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon -
Survival of Bodily Death. 1976
Panger, Danier
The dance of the Wild Mouse. 1979
Smith, Alexander
Dreamthorp. 1863
Tolstoy, Leo
The Death of Ivan Ilyich. 1886
White, Helen Dean
With Wings as Eagles. 1953
Zorza, Victor, Rosemary
A Way to Die. 1981
Zorza
SUICIDE
Alvarez, A.
The Savage God: A Study of Suicide. 1972
Barth, John
The Floating Opera. 1967
Handke, Peter
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story. 1975
Mannes, Marya
Last Rights. 1974
Sexton, Anne
Live or Die. 1966
Sulzberger, C. L.
How I Committed Suicide. 1982
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