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Many of the titles in this sampling of our nonrequired reading collection are available in both print and electronic books, and in some cases audiobooks. Please check our library catalog.
Recently Added Titles
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine by Publication Date: 2016
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Publication Date: 2015
Cooked: An Inner City Nursing Memoir by Publication Date: 2010
Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science by Publication Date: 2022
The Gene: An Intimate History by Publication Date: 2016
Healing Physician Burnout: Diagnosing, Preventing, and Treating by Publication Date: 2015
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox by Publication Date: 2011
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes within Us and a Grander View of Life by Publication Date: 2016
The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy by Publication Date: 2012
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Publication Date: 2017
So You Want to Talk about Race by Publication Date: 2018
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills have Shaped the History of Medicine by Publication Date: 2019
Graphic Medicine Titles
Aliceheimer's: Alzheimer's Through the Looking Glass by Publication Date: 2016
The Bad Doctor by Publication Date: 2015
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Publication Date: 2014
Cancer Vixen: A True Story by Publication Date: 2009
Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy by Publication Date: 2010
Not My Shame by Publication Date: 2016
Rock Steady Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life by Publication Date: 2018
When Anxiety Attacks by Publication Date: 2015
Reading Area Titles
Becoming a Doctor: From Student to Specialist: Doctor-writers share their experiences by Publication Date: 2011
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Publication Date: 2014
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by Publication Date: 2008
Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Publication Date: 2012
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Publication Date: 2008
Catching Homelessness: A Nurse's Story of Falling through the Safety Net by Publication Date: 2016
Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution by Publication Date: 2012
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Publication Date: 2008
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Publication Date: 2011
Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century by Publication Date: 2014
A Fierce Radiance: A Novel by Publication Date: 2010
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States by Publication Date: 2013
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Publication Date: 2011
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Publication Date: 2006
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by Publication Date: 2005
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Publication Date: 2013
How We Decide by Publication Date: 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Publication Date: 2011
Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service by Publication Date: 2011
Jacob's Legacy: A Genetic View of Jewish History by Publication Date: 2008
More Reading Area Titles
The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century by Publication Date: 2002
Medicine's Michelangelo: The Life & Art of Frank H. Netter, MDPublication Date: 2013
Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foods by Publication Date: 2004
Missing Microbes : How the Overuse of Antibiotics is Fueling our Modern Plagues by Publication Date: 2014
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos by Publication Date: 2011
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Publication Date: 2003
A Planet of Viruses by Publication Date: 2015
Pox: An American History by Publication Date: 2012
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Publication Date: 2012
The Real Grey's Anatomy: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Real Lives of Surgical Residents by Publication Date: 2010
The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis by Publication Date: 2014
Stiff : The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Publication Date: 2004
White Coat, Black Hat : Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine by Publication Date: 2011
Why Size Matters: From Bacteria to Blue Whales by Publication Date: 2006
Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects by Publication Date: 2011
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities by Publication Date: 2009
Your Inner Fish : A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Publication Date: 2009
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