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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
In the land of invisible women	Qanta Ahmed	The decisions that change your life are often the most impulsive ones. Unexpectedly denied a visa to remain in the United States, Qanta Ahmed, a young British Muslim doctor, becomes an outcast in mot…	OL11902918W
The making of mind	Alexander Luria	Luria looks back on his life and career in psychology, drawing attention to the Soviet scientific establishment and his struggle to formulate a new psychological theory concerning memory, language, a…	OL1407023W
Through the glass wall	Howard Buten	A clinical psychologist and researcher journeys into the minds of the autistic, going beyond traditional methodology to breach the walls that close off autistics from the rest of the world and releas…	OL15154286W
Divided minds	Pamela Spiro Wagner	Relates the stories of a pair of identical twin sisters, a schizophrenic and a psychiatrist, in an account that traces the deterioration of the favored sister into mental illness, and the other's eme…	OL15835821W
On call in hell	Cdr. Richard Jadick,Richard Jadick,Thomas Hayden	Chronicles the experiences of a thirty-eight-year-old Navy doctor during the Battle of Fallujah, when he and his medical team worked around the clock under fire to save the lives of troops involved i…	OL15858192W
I am not myself these days	Josh Kilmer-Purcell	An advertising executive describes how he moonlighted as a drag queen performing in nighclubs, detailing a surreal odyssey into Manhattan's dark underbelly as it chronicles his relationship with his …	OL15859512W
My story of the war	Mary Ashton Rice Livermore	When secessionist chaos turned to bloodshed in 1861, Mary A. Livermore (1820-1905), editor, lecturer, and abolitionist, left her family and volunteered for the U.S. Sanitary Commission, becoming one …	OL15876619W
House on fire	William H. Foege	"A story of courage and risk-taking, House on Fire tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human history, was completely eradicated in a spectacular…	OL15976259W
Live strong	Lance Armstrong Foundation	A compilation of candid stories, anecdotes, and essays by cancer survivors who discuss the impact of the disease on their lives covers relationships, employment discrimination, coping with medical bi…	OL16026303W
Let's pretend this never happened (a mostly true memoir)	Jennie Goodrich	When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opport…	OL16416065W
God's hotel	Victoria Sweet	"San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hotel-Dieu (God's Hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicia…	OL16486417W
Are you my mother?	Alison Bechdel	From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine’s No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Alison Bechdel’s …	OL16558612W
Knocking on heaven's door	Katy Butler	"An exquisitely written, expertly reported memoir and expose; of modern medicine that leads the way to more humane, less invasive end-of-life care based on the author's acclaimed New York Times Magaz…	OL18168823W
The woman warrior	Maxine Hong Kingston	The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is Kingston's disturbing and fiercely beautiful account of growing up Chinese-American in California. The young Kingston lives in two worlds: the…	OL1822441W
Thirty-five years in the tower	Solomon Papper	xi, 155 pages : 25 cm	OL18948318W
Faith, hope, and healing	Bernie S. Siegel	faith, hope & healing Inspiring Lessons Learned from People Living with Cancer "Bernie Siegel is one of the greatest healers of our time. The stories he shares in Faith, Hope, and Healing demonstra…	OL1959655W
Tales from both sides of the brain	Gazzaniga, Michael S.	Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the most important neuroscientists of the twentieth century, gives us an exciting behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on that unlikely couple, the right and left b…	OL19663130W
His Bright Light	Danielle Steel	Danielle Steel's moving personal story of the son she lost to manic depression.This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold and a tortured soul.'From the day he wa…	OL19709W
The kidney sellers	Sigrid Fry-Revere	"Rarely does an adventure story carry such social significance as in this groundbreaking ethnographic research book. Dr. Fry-Revere's exploration of the medical ethics of compensating organ donors ta…	OL19977666W
A life in public health	Lester Breslow	From his time as a Truman appointee on the Health Needs of the Nation to his tenure as Dean of UCLA's School of Public Health, Dr. Lester Breslow has been a force behind the most important public hea…	OL20804363W