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Jonathan M. Metzl — Dying of Whiteness (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jan 16, 2022 | RESIST: Politics

Jonathan M. Metzl began researching his 2019 book Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) passed. As a physician, he wondered why people who benefited from the insurance and health...

Anne Fadiman — The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 11, 2021 | LEARN: Chronic Illness, RESIST: Social Justice

Author Anne Fadiman combines multiple narratives in her fabulous ethnography The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures. Most importantly, it’s both an immigration and a medical story of one Hmong...

Michele Harper, M.D. — The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 7, 2021 | LEARN: Medical Memoir

Michele Harper, M.D. opens her heart in a memoir about her experiences in medicine, The Beauty in Breaking. But this book is more than that. It’s part meditation on finding herself amid divorce, moving to a new city, and finding peace in yoga and stillness. She’s also...

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: 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: No Apparent Distress by Rachel Pearson, MD

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 17, 2019 | LEARN: Medical Memoir

In No Apparent Distress, Rachel Pearson writes a riveting account of her time in medical school. She’s especially focused on her work at a student-run charity medical clinic in Galveston, TX. Given everything happening these days along the Texas border, it’s even more...

Book Review: Elderhood by Louise Aronson

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 3, 2019 | LEARN: Chronic Illness, LEARN: Medical Memoir

Louise Aronson subtitles Elderhood with the following: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life. I submit that she focuses primarily on the second of these topics, rather than the other two. And that makes sense because she has many years of...

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