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What are the best medical books written in the past 75 years? Here’s one opinion.
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As Ms. Patchett explained, she enlisted the help of the staff at Parnassus Books, a bookstore she owns in Nashville Tennessee. They limited their consideration to books written in English. She calls the list a “mash-up that exemplifies the passionate convictions of 17 booksellers.”
Many of the books of the list are unfamiliar to me, but I recognized some well known classics like
Although many books deal with birth and/or death to some extent, I searched the list for ones with a definite medical connection or theme that ran through most if not all of the book. I’m sharing those with you here.(There might be others, these seemed most obvious to me) . They are listed in chronological order by publication dates.
Caution: Most of these discuss adult themes and issues which may not be appropriate for children or adolescents without adult guidance.
This is a novel about a woman with depression but is considered semi-autobiographical. The author , Sylvia Plath, a poet, suffered from depression and died by suicide not long after publishing this book, her only novel. It was also made into a film.
This may be more familiar to you as the same titled movie which won five major Academy Awards, including Best Actor Jack Nicholson and Best Actress Louise Fletcher.
The novel’s events take place in a psychiatric hospital and examines the treatment and mistreatment of patients in such facilities.
As the name implies, Dr. Watson wrote about his and Francis Crick’s discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. The book mostly ignored the contributions of Rosalind Franklin, who also worked on DNA, earning it criticism for this.
Described as a young adult novel, it relates the story of a female high school student who sinks into depression after being raped, which she is afraid to report to anyone.
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