A list of books for student- MDs        The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down216 reviews Anne Fadiman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998 Eye Opening + Fascinating study of the important role cultural competency plays in Western medicine + thought provoking + The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down             Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal44 reviews Rachel Naomi Remen Riverhead Trade, 1997 Extraordinary book + Introspective life stories + Must Be Present to Win + Sweet book + thinking positively             Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America8 reviews Laurie Kaye Abraham University Of Chicago Press, 1994 Great book + If your poor and sick, you may as weel be deead + Great read for a future doc + Eye-opening read, but very left-wing             The Last Lecture794 reviews Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow Hyperion, 2008 The Last Lecture + Better than expected + excellent book! + A Fantastic service + one life, choose how to live it             An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales48 reviews Oliver Sacks Vintage, 1996 Insights into the Minds of Amazing People + Quick Read! :) + More of the fascinating same from Oliver Sacks + Incredible experiences + amazingly inspirational             Medicine and Culture: Revised Edition7 reviews Lynn Payer Holt Paperbacks, 1996 There will not be a new edition... + A classic text in medicine and culture + A fascinating anthropology of European and American medicine + The spirit of medicine comes from culture + a real eye-opener             The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness19 reviews Jerome Groopman Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005 Riveting examination of the mind/body connection ... + A Fantastic Read for Both Patients and Doctors! + Excellent book + Moving and thought-provoking stories, overall quick read + Let us Run with Hope             Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit869 reviews Daniel Quinn Bantam, 1995 Thank you Ishmael + Life Changing Novel + Original, Thought-Provoking and Intriguing + Step out of the box!             Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness23 reviews Ian Tattersall Harvest Books, 1999 Well written but general + Very good, but I preferred The Fossil Trail + Disappointment This was a well written book, but at the same time I feel it didn't go deep enough or far enough into detail. It has good points and ideas all the way through and I would recommend this as a good read to anyone but particularly the casual reader or new comer to the world of anthropology.             The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales1 review Oliver Sacks Simon & Schuster, 2006 Read it because I had to and totally loved it I first bumped into this book in my college English class as part of the required reading. The first story, which is the story from which the book derives its title, is about a music teacher who got so good at looking at the details, his brain could no longer focus on the large picture. Each ...             The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine: Martha O. Loustaunau, Elisa J. Sobo Bergin & Garvey Paperback, 1997 Summarizing the vast literature on culture and caring in a lively and jargon-free fashion, sociologist Martha O. Loustaunau and anthropologist Elisa J. Sobo introduce readers to the practice of culturally sensitive health care. With engaging examples, they describe the special approaches that sociologists and anthropologists take to health, clearly illustrating Loustaunau and Sobo demonstrate the ...             Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in Public ...21 reviews Paul Farmer University of California Press, 2004 Health and survival as human rights + This book should change you + Review from Branddenotes.blogspot.com + Pathologies of Power             Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America8 reviews Laurie Kaye Abraham University Of Chicago Press, 1994 Great book + If your poor and sick, you may as weel be deead + Great read for a future doc + Eye-opening read, but very left-wing             The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales1 review Oliver Sacks Simon & Schuster, 2006 Read it because I had to and totally loved it I first bumped into this book in my college English class as part of the required reading. The first story, which is the story from which the book derives its title, is about a music teacher who got so good at looking at the details, his brain could no longer focus on the large picture. Each ...             Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness23 reviews Ian Tattersall Harvest Books, 1999 Well written but general + Very good, but I preferred The Fossil Trail + Disappointment This was a well written book, but at the same time I feel it didn't go deep enough or far enough into detail. It has good points and ideas all the way through and I would recommend this as a good read to anyone but particularly the casual reader or new comer to the world of anthropology.             The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness19 reviews Jerome Groopman Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005 Riveting examination of the mind/body connection ... + A Fantastic Read for Both Patients and Doctors! + Excellent book + Moving and thought-provoking stories, overall quick read + Let us Run with Hope             Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal44 reviews Rachel Naomi Remen Riverhead Trade, 1997 Extraordinary book + Introspective life stories + Must Be Present to Win + Sweet book + thinking positively             Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in Public ...21 reviews Paul Farmer University of California Press, 2004 Health and survival as human rights + This book should change you + Review from Branddenotes.blogspot.com + Pathologies of Power             Medicine and Culture: Revised Edition7 reviews Lynn Payer Holt Paperbacks, 1996 There will not be a new edition... + A classic text in medicine and culture + A fascinating anthropology of European and American medicine + The spirit of medicine comes from culture + a real eye-opener             The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down216 reviews Anne Fadiman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998 Eye Opening + Fascinating study of the important role cultural competency plays in Western medicine + thought provoking + The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down              Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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