Medicine & Public Health Book Summaries

Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond. Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes. Simon and Schuster, 2015.

Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables. Storey Publishing, 2011.

The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.

When Breath Becomes Air. Random House, 2016.

Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York. Penguin Books, 2010.

The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Sourcebooks, 2017.

A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Workman Publishing, 2017.

And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements. Little, Brown and Company, 2010.

The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.

How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine. Park Row Books, 2021.

Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World. Mariner Books, 2015.

Practical Strategies for Peak Health and Performance. Penguin, 2019.

How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You. Citadel Press, 2020.

The Secret Lives of Color. Penguin Books, 2017.

University of Chicago Press, 2011.

A Memoir. Random House, 2018.

How Brain, Body, And Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are. Basic Books, 2018.

Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables. Storey Publishing, 2011.

Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. Penguin Books, 2014.

The Surprising Science that Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do. Little, Brown Spark. 2014.

Mindful Eating, Mindful Life. Harper Collins USA, 2011.

The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.

Picador, 2012.

The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes. Simon and Schuster, 2015.

The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes. Simon and Schuster, 2015.

Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond. Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

Curious (but True) Stories of Common Vegetables. Storey Publishing, 2011.

The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.

When Breath Becomes Air. Random House, 2016.

Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death

A New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being — and How to Achieve Them. New York: Free Press, 2011.

University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science. Penguin Press, 2015.

Picador, 2012.