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 Gene: An Intimate History
The Ghost Map
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Since then neuroscience research has shown that we possess two distinct forms of self-awareness: one that keeps track of the self across time and one that registers the self in the present moment. The first, our autobiographical self, creates connections among experiences and assembles them into a coherent story. This system is rooted in language. Our narratives change with the telling, as our perspective changes and as we incorporate new input.
Bessel van der Kolk M.D., The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in The Healing of Trauma

Abhijit Naskar
We don't recognize borders, We don't recognize states. Patientcare is our national anthem, Reward of medicine is smiling patients. ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

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