Recommended Reading List

For Health Professions Students

• The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
  by Lori Arviso Alvord       
• Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life and Everything in Between
  by Theresa Brown
• Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
  by Anne Fadima
• AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame
  by Paul Farmer
• Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
  by Laurie Garrett  
• Better
  Complications
  The Checklist Manifesto
  Being Mortal
  by Atul Gawande  
• The Anatomy of Hope
  The Measure of Our Days
  Second Opinions
  by Jerome Groopman   
• Adventures of a Female Medical Detective: In Pursuit of Smallpox and AIDS
  by Mary Guinan
• Mountains Beyond Mountains
  by Tracy Kidder
• The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition
  by Arthur Kleinman
• The Lost Art of Healing: Practicing Compassion in Medicine
  by Bernard Lown
• Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
  by Henry Marsh
• Night Shift: Stories from the Life of an ER Doctor
  by Mark Plaster
• Every Patient Tells a Story
  by Lisa Sanders
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
  by Rebecca Skloot
• The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Cost of Defeating Disease
  by Meredith Wadman