Medical Science


The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
When Breath Becomes Air
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
The Gene: An Intimate History
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
The information age has taken away the most useful function of the aged, children no longer connect with them for wisdom. What for then, the longer life? 20 Oct 2020 World Statistics Day
Vineet Raj Kapoor

There is no question traumatized people have irrational thoughts: "I was to blame for being so sexy." "The other guys weren't afraid - they're real men." "I should have known better than to walk down that street." It's best to treat those thoughts as cognitive flashbacks - you don't argue with them any more than you would argue with someone who keeps having visual flashbacks of a terrible accident. They are residues of traumatic incidents: thoughts they were thinking when, or shortly after, the ...more
Bessel van der Kolk M.D., The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in The Healing of Trauma

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