Advanced Writing on Natural Sciences and Technology

Bibliography of Books on the Science and Ethics of Medicine

• Chesler, Phyllis. Women and Madness. New York: Harcourt, 1989. Still relevant (not obsolete).
• Edson, Margaret. Wit. New York: Faber and Faber, 1993. The play which was the basis of Thompson and Nichols' film adaptation.
• Gawande, Atul. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. New York: Picador, 2003.
• -------------. "An Interview of Gawande", Atlantic Online, May 1. 2002.
• Epps, Phyllis Griffin, "Like surgery, 'Notes' in imperfect and impressive", an online review, Houston Chronicle, July 12, 2002.
• Ericsson, K. Anders. The Road to Excellence. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Press, 1966. This is about human performance.
• Gleick, James, ed. The Best American Science Writing 2000. New York: HarperCollins, 2000. This contains several excellent essays on the realities of medical science as it is practised in the world today.
• Golub, Edward. The Limits of Medicine: How Science Shapes our Hope for the Cure. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997. This book includes a long and good bibliography. Highly recommended as a concise history of medical "break-throughs."
• Guerrini, Anita. Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment: The Life and Times of George Cheyne University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.
• Harding, D. W. Social Psychology and Individual Values. London: Hutchinson University Library, 1966.
• Harrison, Michelle. Woman in Residence: A Physician's Account of Her Training in Obstetrics and Gynecology. New York: Random House, 1982.
• Herzlinger, R. Market-Driven Care: Who Wins, Who Loses int he Transformation of America's Largest Service Industry. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1997.
• Horney, Karen. Feminine Psychology, ed. Harold Kelman. Norton Modern Library, 1967.
• Iserson, K. V. Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies. Tucson, Ariz: Galen Press, 1994.
• Katz, Jay. The Silent World of Doctor and Patient. New York: Free Press, 1984.
• Klass, Perri. A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student. New York: Penguin, 1994.
• ------------. Reach Out and Read: Literary Promotion in Pediatrics: A Talk by Perri Klass, accompanied by a short biography and bibliography.
• Klein, Gary. Sources of Power. Cambridge: MIT, 1998.
• Kobler, John. The Reluctant Surgeon: A Biography of John Hunter. Akadine Press, 1999.
• Konner, Melvin. The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit. New York: Penguin, 1987.
• ---------------. Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School. New York: Penguin, 1987.
• Miller, Andrew. Ingenious Pain. New York: Harvest, 1997. This is an historical fiction set mostly in 18th century Bath.
• Millman, Marcia. The Unkindest Cut: Life in the Backrooms of Medicine. New York: Morrow Quill, 1977.
• Moody, Nickianne and Julia Hallam, edd. Medical Fictions. Liverpool: Media Critical and Liberal Arts, Liverpool John Moores University and the Association for Research in Popular Fictions, 1998. ISBN 0952797803
• Nuland, Sherwin. Doctors: The Biography of Medicine. New York: Vintage, 1988.
• -----------------------. How We Die. New York: Norton, 1993.
• ----------------------. The Origins of Anesthesia. New York: Norton, 1990.
• Porter, Roy. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity. New York: Norton, 1998.
• ----------------. Mind-Forg'd Manacles: A history of madness in England from the Restoration to the Regency. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987.
• ----------------. Patient's Progress. Stanford: Stanford University, 1989.
• Quammen, David, ed. The Best American Science and Nature Writing. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. This contains a number of excellent essays on the realities of medical science as it is practised in the world today.
• Rosenthal, Marilynn. The Incompetent Doctor: Behind Closed Doors. Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1995.
• Sacks, Oliver. Migraine: Understanding a Common Disorder. New York: New York: Vintage Books, 1992. ISBN: 0-375-70406-X.
• -------------------. A Leg to Stand On. New York: Summit, 1984. A memoir about himself as a patient with a broken leg.
• -------------------. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.. New York: Harper and Row, 1987.
• -------------------. Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf. New York: HarperCollins, 1989.
• Schneider, Carl. The Practice of Autonomy. New York: Oxford, 1998. On decision-making in medicine.
• Summers, Harry Jacobs. Film Review of Wit. The Center for Nursing Advocacy. January 5, 2003.
• Szasz, Thomas. The Myth of Mental Illness.. New York: Harper and Row, 1974.
• Thomas, Lewis. The Lives of a Cell. New York: Bantam, 1973.
• ----------------------. The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher.
• ----------------------. The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine Watcher. New York: Bantam 1983.
• Wangensteen, Owen H and Sarah D. Wangensteen. The Rise of Surgery: From Empiric Craft to Scientific Discipline Minneapolis: University of Minnestoa Press, 1978.
• Wennberg, Jack,.gen. ed. Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care. Chicago: American Hospital Publishing Inc, 1999. See also www.dartmouthatlas.org