The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is popular book written by Rebecca Skloot. Rebecca Skloot is an award-winning science writer whose articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine. Her book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is being translated into more than twenty languages. In this book she beautifully weaves historical, cultural and scientific trends into a comprehensive utterly compelling, easily understood story. Most amazing thing is that this book is a woman’s real life story, the story of her family, and how they have impacted science and anyone who works or benefits from the use of cellular research. There are 3 parts in the book with 3 different titles. Part 1 is Life, part 2 is death and part 3 is immortality. In part 1 she discussed diagnosis and treatment, the birth of HeLa and the death and life of cell culture, where part 2 and part 3 is about woman’s contribution to our scientific and health fields. You can also Download What to Expect When You’re Expecting by Heidi Murkoff PDF Free.

“The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales” is a collection of different stories. All these stories hit on a very important and sensitive topic of demyelinating diseases. The author of this book is OLIVER SACKS. He completed his medical training at San Francisco’s Mount Zion Hospital and at UCLA. In this book, Dr. Sacks opens a door to the layman and offers a sideways glance into conventional psychology and psychiatry with thoughts, ideas, observations and evidence regarding truly fascinating psychological conditions and phenomena. Oliver Sacks told the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations. There are many types of patients discussed in this book. The patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts, patients who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects, patients who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities, whose limbs have become alien, who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. In summary, this is a great book on demyelinating diseases. You can also Download How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker PDF Free.

The Book “Learning Medicine: How to Become and Remain a Good Doctor” is one of the best resources for the medical community. It is written by four great authors Peter Richards,‎ Simon Stockill,‎ Rosalind Foster and Elizabeth Ingall. This is a great Medicine starter and maybe the only book that anyone needs. It is a must-read book for anyone thinking of a career in medicine, or who is already in the training process and wants to understand and explore the various options and alternatives along the way. No matter, whatever your background, whether you are school-leaver or mature student, if you are interested in finding out more about becoming and being a good doctor, this is the book for you.   It describes medical school courses, explains foundation years and outlines the wide range of specialty choices allowing tomorrow’s doctors to decide about their future careers, but it also goes further to consider the privilege and responsibility of being a doctor, providing food for thought and reflection throughout a long and rewarding career.

“Living without an Amygdala” is a complete book written on amygdale. Amygdala is a part of the brain and roughly almond-shaped mass of grey matter inside each cerebral hemisphere, involved with the experiencing of emotions. Two great students David G. Amaral and Ralph Adolphs organize this book. David G. Amaral, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and Research Director of the UC Davis MIND Institute at the University of California, Davis. Ralph Adolphs, Ph.D., is Bren Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the California Institute of Technology. He leads a social neuroscience laboratory that investigates the psychological and neurobiological underpinnings of social behavior, with a particular focus on the role of the human amygdala and prefrontal cortex. The purpose of this book is to reviews, outlines, and organizes knowledge about the amygdala. This book covers what is known about the amygdala, with a unique focus on what happens when this key brain region is damaged or missing. It offers a truly comparative approach, the volume presents research on rats, monkeys, and humans. It reports on compelling cases of people living without an amygdala, whether due to genetic conditions, disease, or other causes. In short, this is a must-read for anyone interested in emotion and its psychological and biological consequences.

“When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery” is an excellent book about the realities of modern day neurosurgery. Frank T. Vertosick Jr. is an experienced neurosurgeon and the author of this book. In this book, Frank told the story of one man’s evolution from naive and ambitious young intern to world-class neurosurgeon. He describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia, and a minister with a .22-caliber bullet lodged in his skull. Interesting accounts of patient cases and how medical decisions affect their future life are also part of this book. The author also describes a few cases where medicine intervened to produce a poor result despite best intentions. It transcends the doctor in training genre and gave a real insight into the experience. Overall, trainee doctors can brush up their skills with this fantastic read and we highly recommend it for all medical students. You can also Download Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande PDF Free.

“Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution 1st Edition” is a great book on medical history. Holly Tucker is the author of this book. She is a Professor at Vanderbilt University (Nashville) where she teaches French history and culture. Holly Tucker has a masterful way of making the past come to life. Her book Blood Work takes us from dissection rooms in palaces to the streets of Paris, providing an unforgettable portrait of an era that wrestled with the same questions about morality and experimentation that haunt medical science today. It is a great book to read if you want to understand how far the back medical research goes, and many of the obstacles that are put in the way of those who do research. It does a workmanlike job of covering the blood-transfusion controversies and fallouts from the mid-1600s. The complex interaction between English and French scientists, private vs. government sponsorship, and the poisonous lengths some people went to in forcing their opinions on others are very instructive. In summary, if you are interested in the medical field and like history, this is the book for you.