Book Reviews

• "Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids" Journalist Julie Salamon offers an unvarnished look at a year in the life of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York.
  The Medscape Journal of Medicine, September 2008
• Intern: A Doctor's Initiation Sandeep Jauhar tells the story of his residency at New York Hospital in the late 1990s.
  The Medscape Journal of Medicine, July 2008
• Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation Charles Barber's Comfortably Numb joins the increasingly long list of books that question the widespread use of the SSRIs.
  The Medscape Journal of Medicine, May 2008
• Epidemic of Care Managed care executives look at solutions to the expense crisis in the American healthcare system.
  Medscape General Medicine, May 2004
• The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox A new novel looks at court intrigue and the allopathic squabblings that led up to the decision to use variolation in Boston in 1721.
  Medscape General Medicine, May 2004
• Bittersweet: Diabetes, Insulin and the Transformation of Illness A new book examines the patients treated by diabetologist Elliot Joslin before, during, and after the discovery of insulin.
  Medscape General Medicine, October 2003
• The Journal of a Civil War Surgeon A physician's letters from the front detail the perils of practicing medicine during the war.
  Medscape General Medicine, September 2003
• Big Doctoring in America: Profiles in Primary Care Fifteen doctors, nurse practitioners, and physician's assistants tell their stories in Fitzhugh Mullan's new book.
  Medscape General Medicine, September 2003
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Writer Mary Roach surveys the many ways cadavers serve the living.
  Medscape General Medicine, August 2003
• Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs Psychiatrist and gender studies scholar Jonathan Michel Metzl unpacks the cultural history of psychiatric therapeutics.
  Medscape General Medicine, August 2003
• Tonight At Noon: A Love Story Charlie Mingus' widow tells the story of her jazz musician husband's struggle with ALS.
  Medscape General Medicine, March 2003
• Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA Timely recognition of this brilliant scientist was undermined as much by her prickly character as by pervasive sexism.
  Medscape General Medicine, February 2003
• Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics The skills of literary theory need to find a place in medicine, according to this collection of essays.
  Medscape General Medicine, January 2003
• The Year's Books: 2002 Bioethics and biowarfare titles swamped bookshelves in 2002.
  Medscape General Medicine, December 2002
• As I Live and Breathe: Notes of a Patient-Doctor A memoir follows a physician through chronic illness, internship, and pregnancy.
  Medscape General Medicine, November 2002
• Bodies A first-time novelist examines corruption, scandal, and error in a British hospital.
  Medscape General Medicine, November 2002
• The Terrible Gift: The Brave New World of Genetic Medicine A new book explores directions for medicine and health policy reform.
  Medscape General Medicine, October 2002
• Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital A book chronicles the rise and fall of a once-patrician asylum.
  Medscape General Medicine, October 2002
• Standing Ovation: Performing Social Science Research About Cancer Research identifying barriers that can impede communication between people with cancer and their healthcare providers is presented through the medium of theater.
  Medscape General Medicine, October 2002
• Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago A new book offers a postmortem of the heat-related deaths of a staggering 739 Chicago citizens.
  Medscape General Medicine, October 2002