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Thursday, December 26, 2002I also added a few new books to the “Recommended Reading” list. Three are first person accounts of illness. Two are by writers, Intoxicated by My Illness by Anatole Broyard, and Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy. Boyard writes about his prostate cancer, and Grealy about living with the results of a disfiguring surgery. The other, Raising the Dead, is by a doctor who describes his own experience as a patient in intensive care. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is my favorite Oliver Sacks book. It’s a look at the sometimes odd presentations of neurological disorders. A Midwife's Tale is the story of Martha Ballard, a midwife in what is now Maine in the late eighteenth to early nineteenth century. The author, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, builds upon Ballard's diary entries to vividly portray life in early rural America. Finally, The Sea and Poison by Japanese author Shusaku Endo, is a work of fiction that explores the ethical dilemmas of Japanese doctors in World War II - performing medical experiments on prisoners of war. The other addition to the left is a link to Amazon.com. The books that will pop up there from time to time are all in the category of the history of medicine. Feel free to browse their links. posted by Sydney on 12/26/2002 06:54:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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