Medicine & Health
Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer
Hardback
A 2012 New York Times Book Review Notable Book
In this moving memoir, a renowned feminist scholar explores the physical and psychological ordeal of living with ovarian cancer.Listening to Pain: Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief
Paperback
“A journey through art and literature as well as medical experience, seeking ways of understanding, articulating, and relieving pain.”—Perri Klass, Washington Post
Becoming a Doctor: From Student to Specialist, Doctor-Writers Share Their Experiences
Paperback
“As wise as it is well written. . . . A sustaining work of art.” —Linda Elisabeth Beattie, Courier-Journal
Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Hardback
A fascinating study of three young female hysterics who shaped our early notions of psychology.
Suffer the Children: The Case against Labeling and Medicating and an Effective Alternative
Hardback
A persuasive rejection of mainstream child psychiatry that guides parents to understand their child's behavioral problems without stigmatizing diagnoses.