New Collection Display: Compassionate Perspectives, Personal Narratives of Science and Health Care

Posted onAuthorKimberly Robin Powell

In Spring Semester 2020 the WHSC Library is highlighting print and e-book titles on compassionate medicine in a temporary collection called Compassionate Perspectives: Personal Narratives of Science and Health Care.  All print books are available for checkout and can be found in the temporary collection display area behind the Information Desk upon entering the library.  A full list of highlighted titles can be found below.

All materials, including many others, can be found in the Emory Library catalog DiscoverE (http://discovere.emory.edu) For questions regarding these and other library available resources, please contact Ask-A-Librarian.

  1. Being mortal Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande, 2014 [also eBook]
  2. Better : a surgeon’s notes on performance by Atul Gawande, 2007
  3. The Compassionate Connection: The Healing Power of Empathy and Mindful Listening by David Rakel, 2018
  4. Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence That Caring Makes a Difference by Stephen Trzeciak and Anthony Mazzarelli, 2019
  5. Complications : a surgeon’s notes on an imperfect science by Atul Gawande, 2002
  6. Dancing Against the Darkness: A Journey Through America in the Age of AIDS by Steven Petrow, 1990
  7. Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Health Care Human Again by Eric Topol, 2019
  8. Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life by Louise Aronson, 2019
  9. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, 2010 [also eBook and audio]
  10. I die, but my memory lives on by Henning Mankell, 2005
  11. The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition by Arthur Kleinman, 1988
  12. In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope by Rana Awdish, 2017
  13. God’s hotel : a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine by Victoria Sweet, 2013
  14. The Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story by Christie Watson, 2018
  15. Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder, 2003
  16. Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness by Rita Charon, 2006 [also eBook]
  17. The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing by Lori Arviso Alvord, 2000
  18. Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour, 2018
  19. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman, 1997
  20. That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour by Sunita Puri, 2019
  21. The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams, 2019
  22. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, 2016 [also eBook and audio] 
  23. The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics by Arthur W. Frank, 2013
  24. You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor’s Stories of Life, Death, and in Between by Daniela Lamas, 2018

 

  1. [ebook] Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s Pain by Abby Norman, 2018
  2. [ebook] Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon by Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, 2011
  3. [ebook] Being mortal Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande, 2014 [also print]
  4. [ebook] Collaborative caring : stories and reflections on teamwork in health care by Suzanne Gordon, 2014
  5. [ebook] Humanity at the heart of practice : a study of ethics for health-care students and practitioners, 2019
  6. [ebook] The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, 2010 [also print and audio]
  7. [ebook] Medical humanitarianism : ethnographies of practice by Sharon Abramowitz and Catherine Panter-Brick, 2015
  8. [ebook] Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness by Rita Charon, 2006
  9. [ebook] Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing by Victoria Sweet, 2018
  10. [ebook] Uncommon Wisdom: True Tales of What Our Lives As Doctors Have Taught Us About Love, Faith, And Healing by John E. Castaldo, 2010
  11. [ebook] When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, 2016 [also in print and audio]

 

  1. [audiobook] Brain on Fire by Susan Cahalan, 2012
  2. [audiobook] When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, 2016 [also in print and eBook]
  3. [audiobook] The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, 2010 [also print and eBook]