Have you read a book that really touched you and/or made you think about illness and the medical field in a different way? Please send your recommendations to fellow students and members of the Premedical Society by clicking on the link below.
Recommended Literature – Nonfiction
Nowhere escaped this common enemy: in Britain, 250,000 people died, in the United States it was 750,000, five times its Read more
An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself. Read more
Medicine in the Days of the Pharaohs: Bruno Halioua and Bernard Ziskind provide a comprehensive account of pharaonic medicine that Read more
Recommended Literature – Fiction
Is mental illness or madness at root an illness of the body, a disease of the mind, or a sickness Read more
Based on the true and strange overlap of John Clare and Alfred Tennyson in a Victorian lunatic asylum (only Clare Read more
If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; Read more
The literature of the sanatorium probably deserves a list of its own, but Mann's classic is one of the first Read more
Despite the medical miracle that has bought her a few more years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, but Read more
Another novel set in a wartime hospital, winning the Booker the year after Regeneration. Four damaged people find themselves and Read more
Bible of generations of clever and misunderstood teenage girls, Plath's coming-of-age novel seems to affirm a connection between madness and Read more
Set in Craiglockhart Hospital in Edinburgh during the first world war, Pat Barker's Booker prize winner focuses on the work Read more
The fictional child of RD Laing and Foucault, a novel in which the asylum is a prison for the punishment Read more
Middlemarch tends to be the one novel taught in medical schools, as if the very name of George Eliot has Read more
