Rachel Clarke’s powerful The Story of a Heart braids the true story of a pediatric organ transplant with a rigorous history of transplant science.
Invisible Labor is a sobering, provocative and deeply researched look at the history of C-sections and how they impact women’s lives.
In her stirring memoir, Committed, Suzanne Scanlon tracks her entwined reading and mental health histories.
A Fatal Inheritance recounts the discovery of how cancer can be passed down through genes, providing a compassionate look at families forever changed.
In Facing the Unseen, Black Man in a White Coat author Damon Tweedy makes an impassioned call for better mental health care.
In jaw-dropping detail, Patrick Radden Keefe recounts the greed and corruption at the heart of the Sackler family’s quest for wealth and social status.
Using the stories of five patients, physician Ricardo Nuila reveals how a public hospital in Houston has succeeded in providing health care to people who are the most vulnerable.
In their revealing book, Anupam B. Jena and Christopher Worsham illustrate the role that pure chance plays in medicine.
In Mind on Fire: A Memoir of Madness and Recovery, Arnold Thomas Fanning offers a powerful, intimate account of a life spent wrestling with depression and bipolar disorder.
With a straightforward scrutiny that reveals without judging, Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder offers a long, hard look at the lives of homeless people in Rough Sleepers.
This captivating, provocative book from Pulitzer Prize winner Siddhartha Mukherjee encourages us to imagine how cellular engineering can reshape medicine.
It’s impossible to read Anita Hannig’s The Day I Die without being moved. It will make you reconsider how dying could and should be.
As a former oncology nurse, Theresa Brown knew that patients often got a raw deal, but only after her own diagnosis did she realize how cruel that deal could be
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