The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions by Esther M. Sternberg
Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine’s Lifesaver by Arthur Allen
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder
Doctors Who Followed Christ: 32 Biographies of Historic Physicians and Their Christian Faith by Dan Graves
Gray Matter: A Neurosurgeon Discovers the Power of Prayer One Patient at a Time by Dan Levy, M.D. with Joel Patrick
Medical Mysteries: From the Bizarre to the Deadly…The Cases that Have Baffled Doctors by Ann Reynolds and Kenneth Wapner
Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain – And it How it Changed the World by Carl Zimmer
The Discovery of Insulin by Michael Bliss
Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine by Jane S. Smith
Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases by Paul A. Offit
The Medical Science of House, M.D. by Andrew Holtz
Why People Get Sick by Darian Leader and David Corfield
Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives and Our Lives Change Our Genes by Sharon Moalem, MD, PhD
Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Life Depends On It by Ian Leslie
You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter by Dr. Joe Dispenza
On Being a Doctor 3: Voices of Physicians and Patients by Christine Laine (ed.) and Michael A. Lacombe (ed.)
On Being a Doctor 2: Voices of Physicians and Patients by Michael A. Lacombe
On Being a Doctor by Michael A. Lacombe
Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
This is a very good book that covers a variety of topics. It would be a good book to read, no matter what health care field interests you.
How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
An Epidemic of Absence by Moises Velasquez-Manoff
A review of the book can be found in the article, “A Messy, Exuberant Case Against Being Too Clean.”
Letters to a Young Doctor by Richard Selzer
Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing by Victoria Sweet