Non Fiction Books About Medicine

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[@echidna.chordata]

Highly recommend Henry Marsh’s books. He discusses his clinical mistakes and the different factors which contribute to decision making in medicine.

[@SophieIslington]

Oh thank you, I'll add those to the to-read list

[@kbyt85]

I’ve added every one of these to my TBR. I love reading about anything medical and these all sound great!

[@SophieIslington]

Haha, perfect!

[@tiffanyanne7861]

Being Mortal is incredible, I would highly recommend picking it up! I read it a good few years ago and I think about it a lot still.

[@SophieIslington]

Thank you! I wonder a little if I had read it and lent it away but it's back on the TBR!

[@localabsurdist6661]

thanks for the recommendations!!

[@bookelf5185]

So nice to see a video on medical non-fiction. I'm a med student and haven't read lots of the ones you have mentioned. They all sound great but I think 'Unwell women' shall be the first I pick up. I have a few recommendations for books which contrast anatomy to poignant patient cases: Stephen Westaby's 'Fragile lives' is fantastic, and neurosurgeon Henry Marsh's books :-)

[@SophieIslington]

Oh perfect, I'll add those to my to-read list!

[@byronsbrain]

I love reading about medical history, I know have some great recommendations to add to my TBR, thank you so much!

[@SophieIslington]

Perfect!

[@HJPeet]

I recommend “We Are Our Brains: A Neurobiography of the Brain, from the Womb to Alzheimer's” by Dick Swaab. I also *love this genre.

[@ChaoticBibliophile]

That sounds great! Thank you for throwing the rec out here ☺️

[@SophieIslington]

Thank you!! I'll definitely add that one on.

[@GloriaZThompson]

Some great recommendations!! I enjoyed Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty. A look at the death / funeral industry.

[@SophieIslington]

Yes, I really liked that one too!!

[@ChaoticBibliophile]

Many of these were already on my TBR but those that weren’t have now made it there 😂 Thank you for this vid! I love thematic recs and medical nonfiction is a recent new interest of mine.

[@SophieIslington]

That's great to hear! It's such an interesting topic.

[@graciesanchez3638]

Thank you so much for these Book recommendations!!! So many added to my TBR.

[@SophieIslington]

That's great to hear :)

[@clairehansen5677]

I’m reading “and the band played on- politics, people and the aids epidemic”- I think you’d enjoy it! Atm it’s more about the discovery of HIV than the politics, so really heavy on the medical stuff. So interesting and heart breaking

[@SophieIslington]

Oh thank you, that does sound like a good one for me!

[@chariqy]

Hi! YOU are a genius! (Of the books you listed, I loved the ones I've read and added all others to my wishlist. So, thank you!) Did you look into Disability Studies as a major at University? Read "Claiming Disability" by Simi Linton? If you enjoy the subject matter, I can recommend more.

[@KittyAndTheBooks]

This was very interesting. The medical field is wild to me, on the one hand it can help so many people and on the other hand the way they conduct their research is sometimes so unethical, let's just try cut away this and see what happens.

[@SophieIslington]

Yep, definitely. There is this dichotomy of doing the 'right thing' in the wrong ways

[@SA-xv3kv]

Wow! Thank you for the list... Really interesting sounding books. And so many Indian/Indian-Origin authors! :D

[@SophieIslington]

My pleasure, I hope you find something you might like on there

[@SA-xv3kv]

@@SophieIslington Yes! A lot of them... The list is quite unique!

[@sandra7319.]

This is such a great idea for a video and what a great selection of books! I'm planning on reading The Gene early next year as part of a theme of nature vs nurture reading and I can't agree more on No Visible Bruises, a topic I did not know a lot about. Let me Strongly Recommend Far From the Tree about having children who may have a disibility which is not inherited and how their parents dealt with the news and child i.e. Downs Syndrome, deafness, autism....the book won many awards and is written with warmth and honesty.

[@SophieIslington]

Thank you, I've added that one to the TBR :)

[@CuriousReader]

Fantastic list as always! Added both Sanatorium and The Man Who Closed the Asylums to my to-read list. Loved Collected Schizophrenias. Magical Language of Others is another great book that while not focused on mental health specifically it's definitely one of the main strands of it and I thought it was beautifully written. Also Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick is one I'm keen to get when it's released in August, it's a medical memoir/history type book on "untold case histories of medically unexplained and invisible illness".

[@SophieIslington]

Oh I'll definitely keep an eye out for Ill Feelings- that sounds like something I'd really enjoy.

[@ilonahiemstra1147]

Have you read ‘The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks’? Thought that was really interesting.

[@SophieIslington]

I've not but it's on my list!

[@braincabbage]

I put so many of these books on my TBR now. I really liked Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel. I also love Jenny Lawson's books for funny memoirs about mental illness. I also recommend Can't You Hear Them? by Simon McCarthy-Jones about hearing voices and Heart by Sandeep Jauhar about the heart

[@SophieIslington]

Thank you so much for all the recommendations!!

[@AbiofPellinor]

So I sat here with pen and paper to note down the books I found interesting... I've just added literally all of them onto my tbr 😂😂

[@SophieIslington]

Ahaha- job done.

[@Readinordertolive]

These all look so interesting, added loads to my wish list.

[@SophieIslington]

Brilliant! Happy reading :)

[@lulumvs9869]

Absolutely loved this video thank you! I just finished ‘war doctor’ by David Nott and it was amazing, and heart wrenching I would definitely recommend it!

[@AHMAaAD1210]

I was looking for this type of video last month and I didn't find a good one, thanks a lot

[@SophieIslington]

Perfect! I was too and didn't find one so made one haha

[@irena7777777]

Not medicine per se but Bad Blood by John Carryrou is an absolutely brilliant book of investigative journalism. So good

[@SophieIslington]

That one's in this video towards the end- I loved it too!!

[@irena7777777]

@@SophieIslington Have you read other non fiction as good as Bad Blood? Any recommendations would be appreciated

[@LouiseReader]

What a sensational selection! Thanks so much for making this video. I work in medicine so obviously medical nonfiction is a favourite of mine. I hadn't heard of quite a few of these, but will be seeking them out. The others are generally languishing unread in my TBR. I haven't read Inferno yet, but did listen to another memoir on post partum psychosis by Laura Dockrill, What Have I Done? It was terrific.

[@SophieIslington]

That's fantastic, it's a genre so I enjoy reading!

[@ItsAnnaYay]

I love this genre! Thanks so much for all these recommendations! I also loved When Breath Becomes Air and I’m currently reading Bad Blood. :)

[@SophieIslington]

It's such a good genre in terms of breadth too, so much to get into.

[@kbyt85]

Fragile Lives by Stephen Westaby is a great medical memoir. If you haven’t read that one I would definitely recommend.

[@SophieIslington]

Oh thank you, I've not read that one.

[@demeldapenkitty7937]

Really useful, thank you

[@SophieIslington]

Great to hear :)

[@Warners_Love]

Please say the names of authors as well.

[@Ihearbooks]

great video I'll be watching again to get down so many titles. As a medical professional I read lots of books in my area. One of my favorites is. Expecting Adam by Martha Beck. It's the story of a woman who is pregnant with a child with Down's and her journey to decide to have the baby and the treatment she received. It's fairly old (1999) but had much to say about obstetrical care and the medicines attitudes about disability.

[@SophieIslington]

Oh thank you, I really like older ones too (but sometimes they are hard to recommend if they've fallen out of print!) I'll see if I can track that one down.

[@drawyourbook876]

I have wanted to read the gene for a long time

[@SophieIslington]

Oh please please do if you can, it's so good.

[@nl3237]

YEEEEEEEEEESSSS!!!

[@SophieIslington]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whoop whoop

[@nl3237]

Almost every book you read is on my tbr. Not just the books in this video. The only books I don't add are the horror or crime ones, which you don't rec often anyway. What would I read without your channel, God only knows. Hello from Montreal, Canada.

[@zubaerchaudhari8267]

Hey

[@SophieIslington]

Hello