Cancerland: A Medical Memoir
St. Martin’s Press
David Scadden, professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at HMS gives a personal account of his experiences with cancer from the diagnosis of his childhood friend’s mother to his poignant memories in the lab. Scadden, co-founder of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and one of the world's leading experts on immunology and oncology, offers riveting stories. With moving compassion, Scadden paints a still rapidly changing landscape in the context of all too common stories of loss. Ranging from his personal childhood memories to his triumphs and regrets as a doctor, Scadden illuminates a light at the end of a dark tunnel.
The Empathy Effect: Seven Neuroscience-Based Keys for Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Work, and Connect Across Differences
Sounds True
Helen Riess, HMS associate professor of psychiatry, part-time at Massachusetts General Hospital, understands that empathy is undergoing a new evolution. In a global and interconnected culture, we can no longer afford to identify only with people who seem to be a part of our “tribe.” As Riess has learned, our capacity for empathy is not just an innate trait—it is also a skill that we can learn and expand. With The Empathy Effect, the leading researcher presents a groundbreaking teaching book to help us learn essential skills for transforming the way we relate to others in any situation.
Foundations of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry: The Bumpy Road to Specialization
Routledge
Don Lipsitt, HMS professor of psychiatry, part-time wrote Foundations of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry to document the development of consultation-liaison psychiatry from its inception to the present. The book draws on contributions from philosophy, physiology, psychoanalysis, epidemiology and other disciplines to define the broad scope of the field. Distinctions and similarities between consultation-liaison psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine will be of interest to psychiatrists, social workers and health psychologists, as well as to students, residents and fellows pursuing careers in these disciplines.
You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor’s Stories of Life, Death, and In Between
Little, Brown and Company
Modern medicine is a world that glimmers with new technology and cutting-edge research. To the public eye, medical stories often begin with sirens and flashing lights and culminate in survival or death. But these are only the most visible narratives. As a critical-care doctor treating people at their sickest, Daniela Lamas, HMS instructor in medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is fascinated by a different story: What comes after for those whose lives are extended by days, months or years as a result of our treatments and technologies? In You Can Stop Humming Now, Lamas explores the complex answers to this question through intimate accounts of patients and their families whose moving narratives paint a detailed picture of the fragile border between sickness and health.
