$17.00
ISBN: 9781250076229
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Published: Picador - September 5th, 2017
Everybody grows old, but nobody wants to talk about it. In Being Mortal, physician-author Atul Gawande guides the reader through the poignant ups and downs of end-of-life care in the modern world. Sharing case studies from his surgical career as well as his personal life, Gawande makes a compelling case for the importance of a society-wide shakeup on how we think of and care for the terminally ill. I may only be nineteen, but I wish I had read this book sooner. ~ Reviewed by Patrick Molluso
$29.95
ISBN: 9780385543767
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Published: Doubleday - April 7th, 2020
Sterling in every way: a harrowing narrative of a family gripped by schizophrenia; a lucid account of scientific and medical efforts to understand and treat the disease; and a humane, stirring story of the afflicted, and those who offer help. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare
$27.00
ISBN: 9781610398619
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Published: PublicAffairs - November 13th, 2018
Big Pharma's mantra, "a pill for every ill," triggered an American epidemic starting in the late 1990s when that pill was OxyContin. Distributors delivered, doctors prescribed, and patients unwittingly became addicted consumers. Now, with OxyContin's dangers well-known, many addicts have moved on to heroin, fentanyl, or, they have OD'd. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare
$20.00
ISBN: 9780553371307
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Published: Bantam - January 1st, 1993
Provocatively spoken, with a voice that is both passionate and well informed, McKenna theorizes that a plant with psychedelic properties was the true source that broke humanity into consciousness thousands of years ago, and that our long trek away from nature is what led us to misery and self-abandonment. His anthropological stories and details alone are worth the read for anyone curious about drug culture, and how and why we've come to demonize entire cultures based on their disposition. A good precursor to Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind. ~ Reviewed by Alex Bell
$17.00
ISBN: 9780307386717
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Published: Anchor - October 24th, 2017
Through the centuries vaunted, derided, dirty, innovative, and frequently overflowing with destitute patients, Bellevue Hospital has been a last refuge for the ill, a warren for the dispossessed, an incubator, laboratory, and research center for physicians and nurses, and a vital, compassionate cog in the clamorous history of our greatest metropolis. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare
$28.00
ISBN: 9781501144318
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Published: Scribner - October 3rd, 2017
Are you one of those people who puts your head down at night, setting your morning alarm clock, cringing as you calculate how many hours of sleep you'll get that night? Do you think losing an hour or two of sleep isn't a big deal or that you can "catch up later"? Do you think you're immune to the effects of caffeine? Matthew Walker is here to tell you just how wrong you are, making scientific discoveries accessible to the average arrogant reader, or rather, sleeper, who thinks little of popping Tylenol PMs, or pulling an all-nighter, and even less of the benefits of a good night's rest. An influential voice, Walker will be echoing in your head as you try to tell yourself one more episode in your Netflix binge won't drain you the next day. ~ Reviewed by Hanna Yost
