Random House New Releases - Biography & Autobiography - Medical

A Visionary Madness by Oliver Sacks

2014-01-07T00:30:00-05:00

A Visionary Madness The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine
Written by Mike Jay
Foreword by Oliver Sacks

Trade Paperback, 288 pages | North Atlantic Books | Psychology & Psychiatry - History; Biography & Autobiography - Medical; Psychology - Psychopathology - Schizophrenia | $16.95 | 978-1-58394-717-3 (1-58394-717-5)

Confined in Bedlam in 1797 as an incurable lunatic, James Tilly Matthews is one of the most bizarre case studies in the annals of psychiatry. Often cited as the first thorough case study of what we would today call paranoid schizophrenia, Matthews drew intricate diagrams of the "influencing machine" that he believed to be reading and controlling his mind. But his case was even stranger than his doctors realized: many of the incredible conspiracies in which he claimed to be involved were entirely real.

A Visionary Madness traces the story of antiwar advocate James Tilly Matthews through the political and social upheaval of the late eighteenth century, providing a vivid account of the unraveling of Matthews's mind, a snapshot of late eighteenth-century psychiatry, and its relevance to current narratives of madness, conspiracy theories, mind control, and political manipulation. Digging deep into historical records and primary sources, author Mike Jay carefully untangles truth from delusion, providing evidence that Matthews was a political prisoner as much as a madman: he had been working as a double agent in the French Revolution and was privy to political secrets the British government feared he might expose. In the process, Jay illuminates the murky revolutionary politics of the 1790s and situates Matthews' visionary madness within the wider cultural upheavals of a world on the brink of modernity. The details of Matthews' treatment in Bedlam reveals the birth-pangs of early psychiatry and its struggle to free its patients from the harsh regimes of the eighteenth-century madhouse. A fascinating and fast-paced narrative history, A Visionary Madness raises profound questions about the nature of madness and the birth of the modern world.

Fighting for Life by Helen Epstein

2013-09-17T00:30:00-05:00

Fighting for Life
Written by S. Josephine Baker
Introduction by Helen Epstein

Trade Paperback, 280 pages | NYRB Classics | Biography & Autobiography - Medical; Biography & Autobiography - Women; Biography & Autobiography - Gay & Lesbian | $16.95 | 978-1-59017-706-8 (1-59017-706-1)

New York’s lower east side was said to be the most densely populated square mile on the face of the earth in the 1890s. City health inspectors called the neighborhood “the suicide ward” and referred to one particular tenement—in an official Health Department report, no less—as an “out and out hog pen.” Diarrhea epidemics raged each summer, killing thousands of city children. Sweatshop babies with smallpox and typhus dozed in garment heaps destined for fashionable Broadway shops. Desperate mothers paced the streets to soothe their feverish children, and white mourning cloths hung from every building. A third of children living in the slums died before their fifth birthday.

By 1911, the child death rate had fallen sharply and The New York Times hailed the city as the healthiest on earth. In this witty and highly personal autobiography, public health crusader Dr. Sara Josephine Baker explains how this remarkable transformation was achieved. By the time she retired from the New York City Health Department in 1923, Baker was famous worldwide for saving the lives of 90,000 children. The public health programs Baker developed, many still in use today, have probably saved the lives of millions more. She also fought for women’s suffrage, toured Russia in the 1930s, and captured “Typhoid” Mary Malone, twice. She was also an astute observer of her times, and Fighting for Life is one of the most honest, compassionate memoirs of American medicine ever written.

Fighting for Life by S. Josephine Baker

2013-09-17T00:30:00-05:00

Fighting for Life
Written by S. Josephine Baker
Introduction by Helen Epstein

eBook, 280 pages | NYRB Classics | Biography & Autobiography - Medical; Biography & Autobiography - Women; Biography & Autobiography - Gay & Lesbian | $16.95 | 978-1-59017-707-5 (1-59017-707-X)

The Reason I Jump by David Mitchell

2013-08-27T00:30:00-05:00

The Reason I Jump The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Written by Naoki Higashida
Translated by Ka Yoshida and David Mitchell

Hardcover, 192 pages | Random House | Family & Relationships - Autism Spectrum Disorders; Biography & Autobiography - Medical; Psychology - Psychopathology - Autism | $22.00 | 978-0-8129-9486-5 (0-8129-9486-8)

You’ve never read a book like The Reason I Jump. Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within.

Using an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct words, sentences, and thoughts that he is unable to speak out loud, Naoki answers even the most delicate questions that people want to know. Questions such as: “Why do people with autism talk so loudly and weirdly?” “Why do you line up your toy cars and blocks?” “Why don’t you make eye contact when you’re talking?” and “What’s the reason you jump?” (Naoki’s answer: “When I’m jumping, it’s as if my feelings are going upward to the sky.”) With disarming honesty and a generous heart, Naoki shares his unique point of view on not only autism but life itself. His insights—into the mystery of words, the wonders of laughter, and the elusiveness of memory—are so startling, so strange, and so powerful that you will never look at the world the same way again.

In his introduction, bestselling novelist David Mitchell writes that Naoki’s words allowed him to feel, for the first time, as if his own autistic child was explaining what was happening in his mind. “It is no exaggeration to say that The Reason I Jump allowed me to round a corner in our relationship.” This translation was a labor of love by David and his wife, KA Yoshida, so they’d be able to share that feeling with friends, the wider autism community, and beyond. Naoki’s book, in its beauty, truthfulness, and simplicity, is a gift to be shared.

The Reason I Jump by David Mitchell

2013-08-27T00:30:00-05:00

The Reason I Jump The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Written by Naoki Higashida
Translated by Ka Yoshida and David Mitchell

eBook, 192 pages | Random House | Family & Relationships - Autism Spectrum Disorders; Biography & Autobiography - Medical; Psychology - Psychopathology - Autism | $11.99 | 978-0-8129-9487-2 (0-8129-9487-6)

Second Suns by David Oliver Relin

2013-06-18T00:30:00-05:00

Second Suns Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin

Hardcover, 432 pages | Random House | Biography & Autobiography - Medical; Social Science - Disease & Health Issues; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs | $27.00 | 978-1-4000-6925-5 (1-4000-6925-4)

From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness.

In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, gifted ophthalmologists who have dedicated their lives to restoring sight to some of the world’s most isolated, impoverished people through the Himalayan Cataract Project, an organization they founded in 1995. Tabin was the high-achieving bad boy of Harvard Medical School, an accomplished mountain climber and adrenaline junkie as brilliant as he was unconventional. Ruit grew up in a remote Nepalese village, where he became intimately acquainted with the human costs of inadequate access to health care. Together they found their life’s calling: tending to the afflicted people of the Himalayas, a vast mountainous region with an alarmingly high incidence of cataract blindness.

Second Suns takes us from improvised plywood operating tables in villages without electricity or plumbing to state-of-the-art surgical centers at major American universities where these two driven men are restoring sight—and hope—to patients from around the world. With their revolutionary, inexpensive style of surgery, Tabin and Ruit have been able to cure tens of thousands—all for about twenty dollars per operation. David Oliver Relin brings the doctors’ work to vivid life through poignant portraits of patients helped by the surgery, from old men who cannot walk treacherous mountain trails unaided to cataract-stricken children who have not seen their mothers’ faces for years. With the dexterity of a master storyteller, Relin shows the profound emotional and practical impact that these operations have had on patients’ lives.

Second Suns is the moving, unforgettable story of how two men with a shared dream are changing the world, one pair of eyes at a time.

Second Suns by David Oliver Relin

2013-06-18T00:30:00-05:00

Second Suns Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin

eBook, 432 pages | Random House | Biography & Autobiography - Medical; Social Science - Disease & Health Issues; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs | $13.99 | 978-0-679-60356-6 (0-679-60356-5)

Second Suns by Rob Shapiro

2013-06-18T00:30:00-05:00

Second Suns Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin
Read by Rob Shapiro

Unabridged Audiobook Download | Random House Audio | Biography & Autobiography - Medical; Social Science - Disease & Health Issues; Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs | $20.00 | 978-0-385-35990-0 (0-385-35990-X)

The Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic by Nora Gallagher

2013-05-21T00:30:00-05:00

The Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic
Written by Nora Gallagher

eBook, 224 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Religious; Biography & Autobiography - Medical | $11.99 | 978-0-307-96231-7 (0-307-96231-8)

This taut yet lyrical memoir tells of the author’s experience with a baffling illness poised to take her sight, and gives a deeply felt meditation on vulnerability and on what it means to lose the faith you had and find something better.

One day at the end of 2009, during a routine eye exam that Nora Gallagher nearly skipped, her doctor said, “Darn.” Her right optic nerve was inflamed, the cause unknown, a condition that if left untreated would cause her to lose her sight. And so began her departure from ordinary life and her travels in what she calls Oz, the land of the sick. It looks like the world most of us inhabit, she tells us, except that “the furniture is slightly rearranged”: her friends can’t help her, her trusted doctors don’t know what’s wrong, and what faith she has left just won’t cover it. After a year of searching for a diagnosis and treatment, she arrives at the Mayo Clinic and finds a whole town built around Oz.

In the course of her journey, Gallagher encounters inhuman doctors, the modern medical system—in which knowledge takes fifteen years to trickle down—and the strange world that is the famous Mayo Clinic, complete with its grand piano. With unerring candor, and no sentimentality whatsoever, Gallagher describes the unexpected twists and turns of the path she took through a medical mystery and an unfathomably changing life. In doing so, she gives us a singular, luminous map of vulnerability and dark landscapes. “It’s the nature of things to be vulnerable,” Gallagher says. “The disorder is imagining we are not.”

The Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic by Nora Gallagher

2013-05-21T00:30:00-05:00

The Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic
Written by Nora Gallagher

Hardcover, 224 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Religious; Biography & Autobiography - Medical | $24.00 | 978-0-307-59298-9 (0-307-59298-7)

HEALING THE WOUNDS by David Hilfiker, M.D.

2013-05-08T00:30:00-05:00

HEALING THE WOUNDS A Physician Looks at His Work
Written by David Hilfiker, M.D.

eBook | Pantheon | Medical - Clinical Medicine; Biography & Autobiography - Medical | $13.99 | 978-0-307-83183-5 (0-307-83183-3)

Healing the Wounds is the most revealing book ever written by a doctor about his own profession. In it, David Hilfiker breaks the code of silence surrounding the everyday practice of medicine and gives is a dramatically different personal account of how the family doctors gets by in a world of spiraling information and high anxiety. Drawing on his years of rural and urban experience, Dr. Hilfiker lets us all know what it really feels like to be a doctor. What do you do when you make a serious medical mistake? Is it enjoyable to play God? What do you say to a patient who wants reassurance when the essence of diagnosis is uncertainty? What about money? What happens when a patient is taking forever, your waiting room is full, and you want to get home?

Dr. Hilfiker uses incidents from his own practice to examine many of the kinds of behavior for which doctors are criticized—aloofness, authoritarianism, lack of caring, and money. With compassion for doctor and patient alike, he shows how the stresses of medical practice lead to a climate of misunderstanding and hostility in which the goal of healing is the first casualty.

Never before have we heard the voice of the doctor ever American is most likely to meet—the family doctor—telling the often painful truths of medical practice. A book for the medical community and the lay person alike, Healing the Wounds is a powerful exploration of what frustrates doctors (and infuriates patients) and what might be done about it).

The Spark by Kristine Barnett

2013-04-09T00:30:00-05:00

The Spark A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
Written by Kristine Barnett

Hardcover, 272 pages | Random House | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology; Biography & Autobiography - Medical | $25.00 | 978-0-8129-9337-0 (0-8129-9337-3)

Kristine Barnett’s son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein’s, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At nine he started working on an original theory in astrophysics that experts believe may someday put him in line for a Nobel Prize, and at age twelve he became a paid researcher in quantum physics. But the story of Kristine’s journey with Jake is all the more remarkable because his extraordinary mind was almost lost to autism. At age two, when Jake was diagnosed, Kristine was told he might never be able to tie his own shoes.

The Spark is a remarkable memoir of mother and son. Surrounded by “experts” at home and in special ed who tried to focus on Jake’s most basic skills and curtail his distracting interests—moving shadows on the wall, stars, plaid patterns on sofa fabric—Jake made no progress, withdrew more and more into his own world, and eventually stopped talking completely. Kristine knew in her heart that she had to make a change. Against the advice of her husband, Michael, and the developmental specialists, Kristine followed her instincts, pulled Jake out of special ed, and began preparing him for mainstream kindergarten on her own.

Relying on the insights she developed at the daycare center she runs out of the garage in her home, Kristine resolved to follow Jacob’s “spark”—his passionate interests. Why concentrate on what he couldn’t do? Why not focus on what he could? This basic philosophy, along with her belief in the power of ordinary childhood experiences (softball, picnics, s’mores around the campfire) and the importance of play, helped Kristine overcome huge odds.

The Barnetts were not wealthy people, and in addition to financial hardship, Kristine herself faced serious health issues. But through hard work and determination on behalf of Jake and his two younger brothers, as well as an undying faith in their community, friends, and family, Kristine and Michael prevailed. The results were beyond anything anyone could have imagined.

Dramatic, inspiring, and transformative, The Spark is about the power of love and courage in the face of overwhelming obstacles, and the dazzling possibilities that can occur when we learn how to tap the true potential that lies within every child, and in all of us.

Praise for The Spark

“This eloquent memoir about an extraordinary boy and a resilient and remarkable mother will be of interest to every parent and/or educator hoping to nurture a child’s authentic ‘spark.’ ”—Publishers Weekly

“[A] compelling memoir . . . Jake is unusual, but so is his superhuman mom.”—Booklist

“An invigorating, encouraging read.”—Kirkus Reviews

“The Spark is about the transformative power of a mother’s unconditional love. If you have a child who’s ‘different’—and who doesn’t?—you won’t be able to put it down.”—Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind and Grand Pursuit

“The Spark describes in glowing terms the profound intensity with which a mother can love her child.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon and Far from the Tree

“Every parent and teacher should read this fabulous book!”—Temple Grandin, author of Thinking in Pictures and co-author of The Autistic Brain

The Spark by Kristine Barnett

2013-04-09T00:30:00-05:00

The Spark A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
Written by Kristine Barnett

eBook, 272 pages | Random House | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology; Biography & Autobiography - Medical | $12.99 | 978-0-679-64524-5 (0-679-64524-1)

The Spark by Kathe Mazur

2013-04-09T00:30:00-05:00

The Spark A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
Written by Kristine Barnett
Read by Kathe Mazur

Unabridged Compact Disc | Random House Audio | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology; Biography & Autobiography - Medical | $40.00 | 978-0-449-00962-8 (0-449-00962-9)

The Spark by Kathe Mazur

2013-04-09T00:30:00-05:00

The Spark A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
Written by Kristine Barnett
Read by Kathe Mazur

Unabridged Audiobook Download | Random House Audio | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology; Biography & Autobiography - Medical | $20.00 | 978-0-449-00963-5 (0-449-00963-7)

The Cost of Hope by Amanda Bennett

2012-06-05T00:30:00-05:00

The Cost of Hope A Memoir
Written by Amanda Bennett

Hardcover, 240 pages | Random House | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Medical; Family & Relationships - Marriage | $26.00 | 978-1-4000-6984-2 (1-4000-6984-X)

From Pulitzer Prize winner Amanda Bennett comes a moving, eye-opening, and beautifully written memoir—a love story of two unusual people, their complex marriage and deep devotion, and finally, Bennett’s quest to save her husband’s life.

When Wall Street Journal reporter Amanda Bennett meets the eccentric, infuriating, yet somehow irresistible Terence Bryan Foley while on assignment in China, the last thing she expects is to marry him. They are so different—classic and bohemian, bow ties and batik, quirky and sensible. But Terence is persistent. “You are going to be somebody,” he tells her. “You’re going to need somebody to take care of you.” Though initially as combative as their courtship, their marriage brings with it stormy passion, deep love and respect, two beloved children, and a life together over two decades. Then comes illness, and the fight to win a longer life for Terence.

The Cost of Hope chronicles the extraordinary measures Amanda and Terence take to preserve not only Terence’s life but also the life of their family. After his death, Bennett uses her skills as a veteran investigative reporter to determine the cost of their mission of hope. What she discovers raises important questions many people face, and vital issues about the intricacies of America’s healthcare system.

Rich in humor, insight, and candor, The Cost of Hope is an unforgettable memoir, an inspiring personal story that sheds light on one of the most important turning points in life.

The Cost of Hope by Amanda Bennett

2012-06-05T00:30:00-05:00

The Cost of Hope A Memoir
Written by Amanda Bennett

eBook, 240 pages | Random House | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Medical; Family & Relationships - Marriage | $13.99 | 978-0-679-60484-6 (0-679-60484-7)

Opening My Heart by Tilda Shalof

2012-05-01T00:30:00-05:00

Opening My Heart A Journey from Nurse to Patient and Back Again
Written by Tilda Shalof

Trade Paperback, 328 pages | Emblem Editions | Biography & Autobiography - Medical; Medical - Nursing - Critical & Intensive Care | $18.99 | 978-0-7710-7989-4 (0-7710-7989-3)

Tilda Shalof had been taking care of critically ill patients in an intensive care unit for more than twenty-five years, but taking care of herself had never been a priority. That is, until she could no longer ignore her extreme fatigue, shortness of breath, and crushing chest pains. When the results came in, it was time to face the music: Tilda required immediate open-heart surgery to replace a defective valve and to repair damage done to this vital organ.

Tilda’s story takes readers from the diagnosis through all her fears and concerns, the or, her stay in the icu, the cardiac ward, recovery at home, rehabilitation, and ultimately, her return to work in the hospital armed with new insights on the patient’s perspective. She learned more in her week-long stay as a patient than in all her years caring for the critically ill, especially about trust and working in partnership with her caregivers.

In Opening My Heart, Shalof expertly weaves recollections from her career and accounts of other nurses’ experiences into her own story, creating the perfect marriage between fascinating clinical detail and a personal journey of healing. Throughout it all is Shalof’s warm, friendly voice and humorous outlook. Nurses everywhere and anyone who’s ever been a hospital patient, or who is currently hospitalized or who might be one day (and those who love them!), will be empowered, enlightened, comforted, and entertained by this book.

From the Hardcover edition.

Arms Wide Open by Patricia Harman

2012-03-20T00:30:00-05:00

Arms Wide Open A Midwife's Journey
Written by Patricia Harman

Trade Paperback, 304 pages | Beacon Press | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Medical - Nursing - Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health; Biography & Autobiography - Medical | $16.00 | 978-0-8070-0171-4 (0-8070-0171-6)

In this prequel to the highly praised The Blue Cotton Gown, Patricia Harman reaches back to her youthful experiments in living a fully sustainable and natural life in the 1960s and ’70s in rural Minnesota and on a commune in Ohio, forming alliances with the eco-minded and antiwar counterculture. From those riveting days as a self-taught midwife, delivering babies in cabins and on farms, sometimes in harrowing circumstances, Patsy takes us into the present day, where she faces the challenges of running a women’s health clinic with her husband, mothering adult sons, and holding true to her principles and passions in the twenty-first century.

A Dangerous Method (Movie Tie-in Edition) by John Kerr

2011-10-25T00:30:00-05:00

A Dangerous Method (Movie Tie-in Edition) The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein
Written by John Kerr

Trade Paperback, 624 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography - Medical; Psychology & Psychiatry - History; Biography & Autobiography - Women | $16.95 | 978-0-307-95027-7 (0-307-95027-1)

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
STARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLY, VIGGO MORENSEN, MICHAEL FASSBENDER, and VINCENT CASSEL

“Has all the elements of a juicy novel . . . riveting. . . . Reudite and elegant.” —Newsday

In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man’s life. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a savage struggle that was as much personal and emotional as it was theoretical and professional. Between them stood a young woman named Sabina Spielrein, who had been both patient and lover to Jung and colleague and confidante to Freud before going on to become an innovative psychoanalyst herself.

With the narrative power and emotional impact of great tragedy, A Dangerous Method is impossible to put down.

Random House New Releases - Biography & Autobiography - Medical

A Visionary Madness by Oliver Sacks

A Visionary Madness The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing MachineWritten by Mike Jay Foreword by Oliver Sacks

Fighting for Life by Helen Epstein

Fighting for Life Written by S. Josephine Baker Introduction by Helen Epstein

Fighting for Life by S. Josephine Baker

Fighting for Life Written by S. Josephine Baker Introduction by Helen Epstein

The Reason I Jump by David Mitchell

The Reason I Jump The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with AutismWritten by Naoki Higashida Translated by Ka Yoshida and David Mitchell

The Reason I Jump by David Mitchell

The Reason I Jump The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with AutismWritten by Naoki Higashida Translated by Ka Yoshida and David Mitchell

Second Suns by David Oliver Relin

Second Suns Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save LivesWritten by David Oliver Relin

Second Suns by David Oliver Relin

Second Suns Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save LivesWritten by David Oliver Relin

Second Suns by Rob Shapiro

Second Suns Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save LivesWritten by David Oliver Relin Read by Rob Shapiro

The Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic by Nora Gallagher

The Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic Written by Nora Gallagher

The Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic by Nora Gallagher

The Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic Written by Nora Gallagher

HEALING THE WOUNDS by David Hilfiker, M.D.

HEALING THE WOUNDS A Physician Looks at His WorkWritten by David Hilfiker, M.D.

The Spark by Kristine Barnett

The Spark A Mother's Story of Nurturing GeniusWritten by Kristine Barnett

The Spark by Kristine Barnett

The Spark A Mother's Story of Nurturing GeniusWritten by Kristine Barnett

The Spark by Kathe Mazur

The Spark A Mother's Story of Nurturing GeniusWritten by Kristine Barnett Read by Kathe Mazur

The Spark by Kathe Mazur

The Spark A Mother's Story of Nurturing GeniusWritten by Kristine Barnett Read by Kathe Mazur

The Cost of Hope by Amanda Bennett

The Cost of Hope A MemoirWritten by Amanda Bennett

The Cost of Hope by Amanda Bennett

The Cost of Hope A MemoirWritten by Amanda Bennett

Opening My Heart by Tilda Shalof

Opening My Heart A Journey from Nurse to Patient and Back AgainWritten by Tilda Shalof

Arms Wide Open by Patricia Harman

Arms Wide Open A Midwife's JourneyWritten by Patricia Harman

A Dangerous Method (Movie Tie-in Edition) by John Kerr

A Dangerous Method (Movie Tie-in Edition) The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina SpielreinWritten by John Kerr

A Visionary Madness The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine
Written by Mike Jay
Foreword by Oliver Sacks

Fighting for Life
Written by S. Josephine Baker
Introduction by Helen Epstein

Fighting for Life
Written by S. Josephine Baker
Introduction by Helen Epstein

The Reason I Jump The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Written by Naoki Higashida
Translated by Ka Yoshida and David Mitchell

The Reason I Jump The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Written by Naoki Higashida
Translated by Ka Yoshida and David Mitchell

Second Suns Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin

Second Suns Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin

Second Suns Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives
Written by David Oliver Relin
Read by Rob Shapiro

The Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic
Written by Nora Gallagher

The Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic
Written by Nora Gallagher

HEALING THE WOUNDS A Physician Looks at His Work
Written by David Hilfiker, M.D.

The Spark A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
Written by Kristine Barnett

The Spark A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
Written by Kristine Barnett

The Spark A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
Written by Kristine Barnett
Read by Kathe Mazur

The Spark A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
Written by Kristine Barnett
Read by Kathe Mazur

The Cost of Hope A Memoir
Written by Amanda Bennett

The Cost of Hope A Memoir
Written by Amanda Bennett

Opening My Heart A Journey from Nurse to Patient and Back Again
Written by Tilda Shalof

Arms Wide Open A Midwife's Journey
Written by Patricia Harman

A Dangerous Method (Movie Tie-in Edition) The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein
Written by John Kerr