Lists of Bests: FrancisFrownsalot's "Books About Illness or Medicine" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/58495 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:42:42 GMT en-us 0 50 121 50 0 How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18869 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18869"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679742441.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43057143_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sherwin B. Nuland</div> Health and Happiness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1148849 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1148849"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452280001.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Diane Johnson</div> Eighty-Sixed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/503670 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/503670"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802139027.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David B. Feinberg</div> My Own Country: A Doctor's Story http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51526 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51526"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679752927.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44909289_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Abraham Verghese</div> The Good Husband (Ballantine Reader's Circle) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1060434 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1060434"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345396456.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1113649130_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gail Godwin</div> Prozac Nation (Movie Tie-In) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961171 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/961171"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1573229628.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Wurtzel</div> The English Patient http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18890 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18890"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679745203.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464945_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Ondaatje</div> Autobiography of a Face http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/918 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/918"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060569662.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1124914252_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lucy Grealy</div> Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1194989 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1194989"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060595647.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Monette</div> Breaking the Surface http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/404787 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/404787"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1402206666.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Greg Louganis</div> An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18985 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18985"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679756973.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oliver Sacks</div> One Boy at War: My Life in the AIDS Underground http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5137231 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul A. SERGIOS</div> Days of Grace http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65848 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65848"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345386817.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056436991_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Ashe</div> Last Wish http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3556039 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3556039"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/017XhXggpxL.jpg" /></a></div> A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/481925 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/481925"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743238540.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Reynolds Price</div> A Journal of the Plague Year (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/157984 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/157984"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140437851.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Defoe</div> Legwork: An Inspiring Journey Through a Chronic Illness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5237867 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5237867"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VQERN8BBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ellen Macfarlane Burstein</div> Fatigue Artist http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1260643 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1260643"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/068482468X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1124157553_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lynne Sharon Schwartz</div> Learning How the Heart Beats: The Making of a Pediatrician http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4476443 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4476443"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J2ME6D64L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Claire McCarthy</div> The Heart: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/730207 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/730207"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0446518700.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lance Morrow</div> Walking on Air: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53132 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53132"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060511311.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by R.S. Jones</div> Dying Young http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1811175 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marti Leimbach</div> As Max Saw It http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/651026 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/651026"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0449909476.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1067918265_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louis Begley</div> When Did You Last See Your Father?: A Son's Memoir of Love and Loss http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3433428 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3433428"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/1111rLXcqhL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Blake Morrison</div> Martin and John: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972354 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972354"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374530300.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V64036471_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dale Peck</div> Scissors, Paper, Rock http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1071261 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1071261"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671795422.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fenton Johnson</div> The Furies (New York Review Books Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83669 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83669"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1590170857.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Janet Hobhouse</div> Every 17 Seconds - Brian Weil http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5290855 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Marabou Stork Nightmares http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10881 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10881"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393315630.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Irvine Welsh</div> Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/85521 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/85521"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805050671.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056492922_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evan Handler</div> Regeneration http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14040 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/14040"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452270073.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132610379_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pat Barker</div> Sleep Thieves http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/256951 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/256951"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0684831848.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465516_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stanley Coren</div> Geography of the Heart: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2005424 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2005424"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671009834.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fenton Johnson</div> First Comes Love (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/887104 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/887104"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679765557.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marion Winik</div> Going the Distance: One Man's Journey to the End of His Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/687635 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/687635"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679448438.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122553523_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Sheehan</div> Man to Man: Surviving Prostate Cancer (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1358278 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1358278"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679781234.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114069037_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Korda</div> Terry: My Daughter's Life-and-Death Struggle with Alcoholism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69706 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/69706"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452278236.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George McGovern</div> Push: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19049 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19049"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679766758.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465009_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sapphire</div> The Beauty of Men: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51019 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51019"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452277744.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andrew Holleran</div> Ordinary Time : Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1060691 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1060691"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0807070572.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nancy Mairs</div> Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2827018 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph B McCormick</div> My Name Is Mary: A Memoir http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2698388 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2698388"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/068481305X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Fisher</div> In the Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5381870 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5381870"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51snKbUEalL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kathryn Black</div> Wrongful Death: A Memoir (Norton Paperback) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/517747 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/517747"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393315169.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056439854_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sandra M. Gilbert</div> Being Brett http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1422833 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1422833"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0805071180.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Hobbie</div> Seeing the Crab: A Memoir of Dying http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5381946 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5381946"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21B22ERKFJL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christina Middlebrook</div> Terms of Endearment: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19503 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19503"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684853906.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1123007294_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Larry McMurtry</div> The Plague http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18615 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18615"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679720219.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44869057_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> Out of This World: A Journey of Healing (Bur Oak Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5407319 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5407319"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QbNn-smdL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Swander</div> Paula http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1245 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1245"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060927216.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414487_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isabel Allende</div>