“Close
reading of this book is well worth the effort, especially since it deals with a
technology that is bound to raise profound ethical issues in future medical
practice."
“While Michelle Zauner’s remarkable memoir is an expression
of her profound grief after her mother died, her story simultaneously reflects
on her complicated relationship with the woman she called Umma and with her own
Korean-American identity.”
“Young doctor Jean-Marc Itard is serving in the Paris home
for deaf-mute children. When a ‘wild boy’ without speech is found near a
village in Aveyron, France, Itard accepts the challenge of educating him…”
“The book takes on the accepted grand narrative of human
development, namely, a linear evolution from a primordial state of innocence
and equality to a society in which hierarchy and inequality are hard wired into
existence.”
“The poems in this collection were written during the Covid
pandemic; they speak of the toll the virus has taken and continues to take not
only on patients but, in these poems, on the caregivers--specifically the poet.”
“The film is an inspiring and emotional portrayal of a
family who has devoted their lives to tackling progeria while simultaneously
embracing life and living the present day to its fullest.”
“Suzanne O’Sullivan, an Irish neurologist, set out in 2018
to study children suffering from resignation syndrome, a project that led her
to investigate other outbreaks of mysterious illness around the world.”
“The stories explore the way in which the characters
interact with the myth of open land, untouched environment, and home in the
West, but do not shy away from all that myth can often obscure - poverty,
hardship, crime, radicalism.”
“Nothing will
quite prepare you for the literary world that Labatut has invented… the
characters lived through the turbulent first third of the 20th
century when quantum mechanics revolutionized the traditional understanding of
physics.”
“[The book] is a comprehensive history of addiction from
ancient times to the present day. It is also a memoir of the author’s
own struggle with addiction.”
“[The film’s] focus on the suffering of the patients and the
emotional stress on those who care for them will be of interest to everyone
living in this life-changing time of the pandemic.”
“Jacobson’s brilliant essays refuse to let us ignore our
shared vulnerability or the unpredictability of living in a body, as she once
thought she could.”
"What is most striking throughout the film is the
sense that what makes Fauci a great man and what has made him so influential is
not simply his knowledge or his intellect, but his unfailing sense of duty to
his fellow man..."
"There is much in Tangles that might offer solace to
current (or former) caregivers who struggle to give loved ones with Alzheimer’s
a quality, dignified end-of-life experience.”
“The tale is a stunning and sorrowful envisioned snapshot of
what the end of life might have felt like for an artist-protagonist during the
1918 influenza pandemic.”
“The book has utmost relevance today, as we continue to
understand how vestiges of racial thought, bias and discrimination may still
live on in medicine albeit in a more insidious manner.”
“The story involves the interplay of serious clinical
events, family and social relationships, challenges with daily activities, and
diminishing medical options.”
“The collection is a tribute to familial love, and
ultimately to one particular person, separated by the worsening pandemic, and
dealing with the ravages of metastatic breast cancer.”
“To adapt to the format of a dramatic series, Danny Strong,
the creator, sets the series around the fiendish Purdue Pharma sales and
marketing practices and the people they affected directly.”
“Centered on the mysterious death and lost grave of the
great anatomist, this enjoyable novel is anchored in nodal points generated by
scholarly literature.”
“The bulk of the book is an edited selection of the author’s
psychiatric records from 1969 to 2016…The notes document changes in psychiatry
over the past half century."
“This book is a reminder that it will take an extended and
concerted effort to achieve equal treatment for citizens in the penal system
and in the health system.”
“The film is a moving and thought-provoking look at the
beating heart of medicine with its engaging soundtrack and its from-the-inside
views of rural and village life.”
“Evident in the poems is a person experiencing much more
than medical/psychiatric practice, but a full cornucopia of life: his love of
art, music, food, nature, and the people he shares this bounty with.”
“Pollan continues pursuing his interest in the human drive
for altering consciousness through mind-altering substances and marries this
interest with his passion for plants and gardening.”
“Like many public health crusaders, Lange understood the
connection between societal and historical factors and the spread and
development of disease, specifically HIV and AIDS.”
"Fisher was an African-American physician-author whose clever
novel contains only African-American characters, including the physician and
the detective."
“Even when the author is writing of life outside the hospital or the sickroom, her knowledge of our fragile bodies and vulnerable minds are evident--as is her understanding of the complexities of human existence and desire.”
“Hughes’ ability to create the setting and build the uneasiness is superb literary craft… prepare to have everything you’ve thought about the story suddenly change with the breathless rapidity of a rug being pulled out from under you.”
“Berlin writes as a physician, husband, father, friend, lover of music--and as a man who understands that he and his patients share a common and fragile humanity.”
“Readers will appreciate the book for the questions it raises and the thinking it inspires...[about] taking measures to avoid devastating enfeeblement and infirmity during old age.”
“The book explores the human condition and what it means to relate to one another with caring despite the interpersonal complications that can often arise.”
“[The author] brings together scholars and creative writers to celebrate the legacy of the sixteenth-century Flemish physician and anatomist, Andreas Vesalius and his landmark text, De Humani Corporis”
“In these two linked books, [the author] tells an extraordinary real life story that combines personal experience and world history into a narrative that is as powerful as any novel.”
“Crip Camp is in part a multi-voiced memoir told from the too-rare perspective of teenagers with disabilities about a shared formative experience and, simultaneously, a needed documentary about disability civil rights campaigns.”
“Covid-19 has has scorched societies at all levels all
around the world. Will anyone believe a movie is set in the current time period
without signs of Covid-19? Dileesh Pothan thinks not.”
“Is
Religion or Science best able to deal with the psychological problems that can
arise over a lifetime? Yaa Gyasi’s powerful new book aims to answer these
perennial questions.”
“For anyone seeking to understand the 1918 influenza pandemic not only from a scientific and medical historical standpoint, but also with an appreciation of the political and sociocultural milieu in which it took place, you can’t do much better than Barry’s work.”
“[The] memoir points its readers in the direction of a safe passage to the home of our natural world, where, in finding union with that world, we may experience healing not only from COVID but from habits of the heart that have left us more broken than we know.”
“From this novel, we get Lethem’s view of how Tourette syndrome can affect everyday life and how it can progress; how people with the syndrome can think about it; the balance people seek between benefits and side effects of drug therapies; and whether it’s acceptable to think that some verbal and physical tics are funny.”
"The author-artist's black and white illustrations are potent in portraying her struggle to understand the seizures and her attempt to communicate their impact on her life.”
“By bringing public awareness to the critical shortcomings, corruption and politicization of the Romanian health care system, the filmmakers have created an important cautionary tale for other cities and countries who do not prioritize the health of their citizens.”