The Countway Library at Harvard Medical School has a twitter account listing the books Harvard students, docs and profs return. Here are a few samples. “Cooper:Therapy dog” seems popular, as do books by Paul Farmer of Partners in Health. For more see @HMSreturns.
History, memoir and colons
Medieval technology and social change by Lynn Townsend White http://bit.ly/cuu1A8
Alfalfa to ivy : Memoir of a Harvard Medical School dean by Joseph B. Martin http://bit.ly/wh12DD
Alice Hamilton: Pioneer doctor in industrial medicine by Madeleine P. (Madeleine Parker) Grant http://bit.ly/IorK5q
The puzzle people : Memoirs of a transplant surgeon by Thomas E. (Thomas Earl) Starzl http://bit.ly/v7zyjw
The mentally ill in America : A history of their care and treatment from colonial times by Albert Deutsch http://bit.ly/IpxTlb
Power, sex, suicide : Mitochondria and the meaning of life by Nick Lane http://bit.ly/iMoUZh
On the pill : A social history of oral contraceptives, 1950-1970 by Elizabeth Siegel Watkins http://bit.ly/mJgZpX
Subjected to science : Human experimentation in America before the Second World War by Susan E Lederer http://bit.ly/GWc9jq
Secrets?
Ophthalmology secrets in color http://bit.ly/ioWQHk
Trauma secrets http://bit.ly/Iqm91S
Dental secrets http://bit.ly/qlDxjJ
Med School
Assessment measures in medical school, residency, and practice : the connections http://bit.ly/Iqaikk
So you want to be a brain surgeon? http://bit.ly/ItC6oo
The Washington manual internship survival guide by Grace A Lin http://bit.ly/A2JnkM
Iserson’s getting into a residency : a guide for medical students by Kenneth V Iserson http://bit.ly/z47UNY
Diversity
Shattering culture : American medicine responds to cultural diversity http://bit.ly/GDhmrq
Health issues in Latino males : a social and structural approach http://bit.ly/zBRdWe
Race, ethnicity, and health : a public health reader http://bit.ly/dbx8jT
Not too medical
Gold: recovery, properties, and applications by Edmund M. (Edmund Merriman) Wise http://bit.ly/JeDPM7
Hair transplantation http://bit.ly/JdZoiA
Etc
[Cooper : therapy dog] http://bit.ly/k7raF1
Better than well : American medicine meets the American dream by Carl Elliott http://bit.ly/rGjxBK
How to
Electroconvulsive therapy : a guide for professionals and their patients by Max Fink http://bit.ly/IofP7E
Schmidek & Sweet operative neurosurgical techniques : indications, methods, and results http://bit.ly/Io6L2C
Fundamentals of clinical trials by Lawrence M. Friedman http://bit.ly/xGnSoF
Pocket medicine http://bit.ly/Io5DMl
Introduction to anesthesia; the principles of safe practice by Robert Dunning Dripps http://bit.ly/HZwUXf
Janeway’s immunobiology by Kenneth (Kenneth M.) Murphy http://bit.ly/rumf5h
Good general practice http://bit.ly/z56Nuq
Next generation microarray bioinformatics : methods and protocols http://bit.ly/HtuRsP
Bethesda handbook of clinical oncology http://bit.ly/qjBZ8M
The breath, and the diseases which give it a fetid odor : with directions for treatment by Joseph W. (Joseph William) http://bit.ly/ItDmrD
Sapira’s art & science of bedside diagnosis by Jane M Orient http://bit.ly/tMxL9g
Outdated?
Callous disregard : autism and vaccines — the truth behind a tragedy by Andrew J Wakefield http://bit.ly/HWH0vw
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