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Jennifer Wright — Get Well Soon (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 17, 2022 | LEARN: Chronic Illness

Jennifer Wright balances aspects of medicine, science, and social history in her 2017 book, Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them. Perhaps I connected most strongly to the human and social elements because of experiencing the COVID-19...

Leigh Cowart — Hurts So Good (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 28, 2021 | LEARN: Medical Memoir

Leigh Cowart explores why people consent to experience pain in their upcoming book, Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose. They take the science of pain and correlate it with a variety of intentional experiences from ballet class to eating wildly...

James Nestor — Breath (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 12, 2021 | LEARN: Chronic Illness

James Nestor combines scientific exploration and his own experiences in Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art. The two aspects keep the book from being entirely memoir or entirely an academic treatise. At its heart, Nestor asks why breath matters. We breathe...

Dr. Jen Gunther, MD — The Menopause Manifesto (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 18, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else, RESIST: Feminism

Dr. Jen Gunther, MD is my new chief explainer of women’s health. Her upcoming book, The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism is brilliant. It’s an utterly necessary addition to every 35+ woman’s bookshelf. Run, don’t walk, to your nearest...

The Red Lotus: A Prescient Mystery for 2020 from Chris Bohjalian (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Dec 29, 2020 | RELAX: Mystery-Thriller

The Red Lotus is another strong entry in the mystery / thriller genre from Chris Bohjalian. And this time, he chose an oddly prescient topic for a 2020 release. The story centers around Alexis Remnick, a New York City ER doctor. She’s on a bicycling trip to Vietnam...

Mona Hanna-Attisha Fights for the Children in What the Eyes Don’t See (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Nov 8, 2020 | RESIST: Social Justice

Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha wrote What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City to tell what happened in Flint, Michigan. But it’s not just her story. It’s the story of her clinic, her city, her state, and her country. And they are...

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang, MD and Nate Pedersen (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Oct 10, 2020 | LEARN: Chronic Illness

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen is two parts gasping at astounding purported medical cures. It’s also one part rubbernecker can’t look away no matter how yucky the example might be. I thoroughly enjoyed...

Our Malady by Timothy Snyder—Healthcare, Freedom & Politics (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 1, 2020 | LEARN: Chronic Illness, RESIST: Politics

Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary by Timothy Snyder is just under 200 pages. While it’s not long, it covers topics we all face daily whether we know it or not—our health and freedom. A Yale professor, historian, and writer, Snyder was not well at...

Book Review: Pale Rider by Laura Spinney

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 23, 2020 | LEARN: Chronic Illness

Laura Spinney covers a tremendous amount of ground with her excellent book, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World. It’s a timely read for 2020, of course. And Spinney talks about everything from how the flu started and traveled, to how it...

Book Review: Attention, A Love Story by Casey Schwartz

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 5, 2020 | LEARN: Medical Memoir

Casey Schwartz writes a memoir and social history mash up in Attention, A Love Story. She’s a thirty-something woman who started using Adderal, a drug to treat ADHD, in college. But she took it without being diagnosed. It’s just one of those things college kids do,...

Book Review: Dopesick by Beth Macy

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Apr 6, 2020 | LEARN: Chronic Illness

​Beth Macy tells hard truths in her 2018 book, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America. To me, it’s about the way capitalism allows one group of people to harm another, all in pursuit of the almighty dollar and in the guise of treating a...

Book Review: Doing Harm by Maya Dusenberry

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 4, 2020 | LEARN: Chronic Illness

Maya Dusenberry compiles and analyzes a boat load of important information in Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick. Now you know her theme—the way women suffer because of misogyny and prejudicial...

Book Review: The Angel and the Assassin by Donna Jackson Nakazawa

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Dec 11, 2019 | LEARN: Chronic Illness

Donna Jackson Nakazawa is a favorite nonfiction author of mine. Her book, The Autoimmune Epidemic was one of the first books I read after being diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis 10 years ago. And I’ve devoured every one she’s written since. The Angel and the...

Book Review: Over-Diagnosed by H. Gilbert Welch, M.D.

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Nov 29, 2019 | LEARN: Medical Memoir

Over-Diagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health is a physician researchers’ perspective on the state of medical practice in the United States. It was published in 2011, so some of the information is dated. But the fundamental questions raised by H....

Book Review: One Doctor by Brendan Reilly

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Nov 4, 2019 | LEARN: Medical Memoir

Dr. Brendan Reilly creates a gripping memoir, One Doctor, by balancing several elements. As a hospitalist, a doctor working strictly with patients admitted to hospital, he details individual cases. At the same time, he reflects on how the cases affect him beyond the...

Book Review: Cancerland: A Medical Memoir by David Scadden, M.D.

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Nov 7, 2018 | LEARN: Medical Memoir

David Scadden, M.D. titled his book Cancerland: A Medical Memoir. Truthfully, it’s more of a scientific history book. There’s very little in it that constitutes memoir, in the sense of personal experiences. He does tell a bit of his mother’s cancer story, and some...
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