Posts tagged with ‘Health’
January 30, 2013
ELOQUENT, COMPASSIONATE WORK by a Polish physician and researcher links medicine with the arts and humanities.
Grade: A MINUS
KORE: ON SICKNESS, THE SICK, AND THE SEARCH FOR THE SOUL OF MEDICINE
Counterpoint
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Art History, Health, History of Science, Literary History, Medicine, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary, Social History
January 11, 2013
ADMIRABLY COMPREHENSIVE, ENTERTAINING social history of marijuana makes some solid points about public policy.
Grade: SOLID B
SMOKE SIGNALS: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF MARIJUANA
Scribner
2012
Tags: Addiction and Recovery, Health, History, Mental Health and Illness, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social and Cultural Commentary, Solid B Reviews
November 28, 2012
A JOURNALIST DELVES INTO the complex science (and business) of sleep and makes some interesting discoveries!
Grade: SOLID B
DREAMLAND: ADVENTURES IN THE STRANGE SCIENCE OF SLEEP
W. W. Norton & Company
2012
Tags: Health, Mental Health and Illness, Neuroscience, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
November 15, 2012
CHARMING, OPEN-HEARTED MEMOIR of a writer’s new marriage, religious reawakening, and breast cancer experience.
Grade: SOLID B
DOES THIS CHURCH MAKE ME LOOK FAT? A MENNONITE FINDS FAITH, MEETS MR. RIGHT, AND SOLVES HER LADY PROBLEMS
Grand Central
2012
Tags: Health, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Solid B Reviews
November 13, 2012
FIRST-PERSON STORIES of people living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria paint a nuanced picture of the disease’s impact.
Grade: B PLUS
OUR KIND OF PEOPLE: A CONTINENT'S CHALLENGE, A COUNTRY'S HOPE
Harper
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Health, Nigeria, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social and Cultural Commentary
July 9, 2012
WRENCHINGLY HONEST, BRUTALLY eloquent, a novelist’s memoir of losing her sight and her way in life astounds.
Grade: A MINUS
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN WINTER: A MEMOIR IN BLINDNESS
Harper
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Addiction and Recovery, England, Health, Memoirs, Mental Health and Illness, Scotland
May 14, 2012
SEARINGLY PERSONAL, YET incisively analytical memoir of ovarian cancer from women’s studies star Susan Gubar.
Grade: B PLUS
MEMOIR OF A DEBULKED WOMAN: ENDURING OVARIAN CANCER
W. W. Norton and Company
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Health, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Women's Issues
May 7, 2012
THE IMPACTS OF HUMAN society on the evolution of other species, and vice versa, explored with admirable clarity.
Grade: B PLUS
EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY: UNITING HISTORY AND BIOLOGY TO UNDERSTAND LIFE ON EARTH
Cambridge University Press
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Health, History, History of Science, Non-Fiction, Science
April 24, 2012
CHARMING, CHATTY MEMOIR from a Vermont country doctor has plenty of humor, compassion, and local color.
Grade: SOLID B
IT'S PROBABLY NOTHING: MORE ADVENTURES OF A VERMONT COUNTRY DOCTOR
Chelsea Green
2011
Tags: Health, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
March 14, 2012
A BRIGHT, CREATIVE TEEN who died tragically young is remembered and celebrated in his dad’s touching memoir.
Grade: B PLUS
IMMORTAL BIRD: A FAMILY MEMOIR
Simon and Schuster
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Health, Memoirs, Non-Fiction