Subject: Health/Wellness/Medicine
Volume Control: Hearing In A Deafening World
Our sense of hearing makes it easy to connect with the world and the people around us. The human system for processing sound is a […]
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The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and […]
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Finishing Our Story: Preparing For The End Of Life
Death is the destiny we all share, and this will not change. Yet the way we die, which had remained the same for many generations, […]
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Diagnosis Female: How Medical Bias Endangers Women’s Health
Being a woman in the health care system is inherently hazardous to your health. Women often experience misdiagnosis and ignorance of their symptoms, in part […]
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The Body: A Guide For Occupants
Bill Bryson takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As compulsively readable as it is comprehensive, this is […]
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The unexpected journey of caring: the transformation from loved one to caregiver
Caregivers today find themselves in need of a crash course in new and unfamiliar skills. They must not only care for a loved one, but […]
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The price we pay: what broke American health care–and how to fix it
One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary, one […]
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Permission to feel: unlocking the power of emotions to help our kids, ourselves, and our society thrive
Marc Brackett is a professor in Yale University’s Child Study Center and founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. In his 25 years […]
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The last ocean: a journey through memory and forgetting
From the award-winning journalist and author, a lyrical, raw, and humane investigation of dementia that explores both the journey of the person who lives with […]
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A house on stilts: mothering in the age of opioid addiction – a memoir
A House on Stilts tells the story of one woman’s struggle to reclaim wholeness while mothering a son addicted to heroin. America’s opioid crisis is […]
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