More Popular Medical Books to Read

It's the holiday season.  Maybe the weather is getting you down or it might be a cold or flu and you find yourself at home with time to read.  The following books are filled with adventure, mystery, suspense and even danger and answer questions you might have like:

• What are some of the more bizarre medical cases physicians see?
• How does the human mind work?
• What do the volunteers of Doctors Without Borders do?
• Who are the Elite Medical Detectives and what do they do?

 

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The Tell-Tale Brain Using unusual and baffling cases, Ramachandran, a neuroscientist, explains how a normal human brain works.	The Yipping Tiger and Other Tales from the Neuropsychiatric Clinic Features ten case histories of common neuropsychiatric disorders including golfer's yip, Tourette syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anorexia nervosa and phantom limb.	What Disturbs Our Blood:a Son's Quest to Redeem the Past A riveting story of addiction and mental illness in a prominent Canadian family spanning three generations.

 

 

 

Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders Fascinating and harrowing tales of the medical professionals who deliver emergency care in war-torn countries and areas where natural disasters have occurred.  Read the News updates from the Canadian website.	Inside the Outbreaks: the Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service Follow the officers of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a section of the Centers for Disease Control, as they investigate outbreaks of Ebola, smallpox, rabies, anthrax and other deadly diseases.  To see recent investigations, go to the Epidemic Intelligence Service website.	The Deadly Dinner Party & Other Medical Detective Stories Fifteen gripping stories including a typhoid outbreak in the Catskills, a building-related cluster of hypersensitivity pneumonia, and a case of Vitamin A toxicity.