Medicine Reading List

Alberts, Bruce. 2014. Essential cell biology. New York: Taylor and Francis.
Ashcroft, F. 2000. Life at the extremes. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Ashcroft, F. 2012. The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body. London: Penguin Books.
Gawande, Atul. 2010. The checklist manifesto how to get things right. New York: Metropolitan Books.
Goldacre, Ben. 2009. Bad science. London: Fourth estate.
Greenfield, S. 1997. The Human Brain: A Guided Tour. London: Phoenix.
Kalanithi, Paul. 2016. When breath becomes air. New York: Random House.
Mukherjee, Siddhartha. 2011. The emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer. London: Fourth Estate.
Nuland, Sherwin B. 1995. How we die: reflections on life's final chapter. New York: Vintage Books.
Nuland, Sherwin B. 1998. How we live. New York: Vintage Books.
Sargent, Michael G. 2005. Biomedicine and the human condition: challenges, risks, and rewards. New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press.
Tortora, Gerard J., Bryan Derrickson, and Gerard J. Tortora. 2009. Essentials of anatomy and physiology: international student version. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley.

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