Medical : Essays

Healing to All Their Flesh asks us to step back and carefully rethink the relationship between religion and health. It does so by examining overlooked issues......

Reminiscent of Chekhov's stories, The Blood of Strangers is a visceral portrayal of a physician's encounters with the highly charged world of an emergency ro......

The Healthy Jew traces the culturally revealing story of how Moses, the rabbis, and other Jewish thinkers came to be understood as medical authorities in the......

A physician's training is not complete until it integrates the wisdom of his or her patients....I feel like the ancient mariner. I have taken a long, stormy,......

Donner Prize-winning author Dr. David Gratzer (Code Blue) edits and introduces this collection of twelve essays on health care reform in Canada, advocating a......

Dr. Ackerman provides helpful insights and answers to the important medical issues that affect you, including: . How Well Informed Is Your Healthcare Provide......

Founded just six years ago, Bellevue Literary Review is already widely recognized as a rare forum for emerging and celebrated writers-among them Julia Alvare......

In Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmothers had worn......

From a doctor Oliver Sacks has called a “born storyteller,” a riveting account of practicing medicine at a fast-paced urban hospital  For tw......

This firsthand account of September 11, written by a paramedic on the scene, chronicles the days before and after the collapse of the World Trade Center towe......

ENLIGHTENING AND INSPIRING, Dr. Allen Weisse's fascinating new collection of essays, Notes of a Medical Maverick offers an exploration of the medical profess......

In Singular Intimacies, which the New England Journal of Medicine said captured the "essence of becoming and being a doctor," Danielle Ofri led us into the h......

PLoS Medicine's October 2006 issue contained a special collection of eleven magazine articles and five research papers devoted entirely too social medicine. ......

It seems astonishing that in the 21st century decisions on health care can still be made without a solid grounding in research evidence. This is true even in......

A collection revealing the joys, fears, intimacies, and transcendent moments shared by a nurse and her patients "The Heart's Truth should be required reading......

Why would someone want to hang out with dead bodies? With curious anecdotes and unbelievable truth, funeral director Robert Webster reveals that answer and m......

"As wise as it is well written. . . . A sustaining work of art." -Linda Elisabeth Beattie, Courier-JournalIn this inspired anthology, doctors relate true sto......

This book takes the reader to the front lines of medicine, from a serious automobile accident on a dark country road to a woman in cardiac arrest to a young...

New York Times WellBlog regular contributor, Danielle Ofri has been praised for turning the triumphs and trials of medicine into riveting and compassionate s......

There is a grand tradition of physicians who are also great writers and philosophers. From Copernicus and Paracelsus, to Chekov, Osler and Frankl. And most r......