LibGuides: Guide: Nursing Resources: Reading

Medical Biographies

The Doctors Blackwell by Janice P. Nimura
Call Number: R692 .N56 2021
ISBN: 9780393635546
Publication Date: 2021-01-19
Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment.
Women in White Coats by Olivia Campbell
Call Number: R489.A1 C36 2021
ISBN: 9780778389392
Publication Date: 2021-03-02
In the early 1800s, women were dying in large numbers from treatable diseases because they avoided receiving medical care. Examinations performed by male doctors were often demeaning and even painful. In addition, women faced stigma from illness--a diagnosis could greatly limit their ability to find husbands, jobs or be received in polite society.
Confessions of a trauma junkie : my life as a nurse paramedic by Sherry Lynn Jones
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 1615993436
Publication Date: 2017
Ride in the back of the ambulance with Sherry Lynn Jones Share the innermost feelings of emergency services workers as they encounter trauma, tragedy, redemption, and even a little humor.
Women of Mayo Clinic by Virginia Wright-Peterson
Call Number: R692 .W75 2016
ISBN: 9781681340005
Publication Date: 2016-03-01
The story of Mayo Clinic begins on the Minnesota prairie following a devastating tornado in 1883. It also begins with the women who joined the growing practice as physicians, as laboratory researchers, as developers of radium theory and cancer treatments, and as innovators in virtually all aspects of patient care, education, and research.
Opening My Heart by Tilda Shalof
Call Number: RD 598 .S53 2012
ISBN: 9780771079894
Publication Date: 2012-05-01
The author had been taking care of critically ill patients in an intensive care unit for more than twenty-five years, but taking care of herself had never been a priority. That is, until she could no longer ignore her extreme fatigue, shortness of breath, and crushing chest pains.
Headstrong by Rachel Swaby
Call Number: Q130 .S93 2015
ISBN: 9780553446791
Publication Date: 2015-04-07
Covering Nobel Prize winners and major innovators, as well as lesser-known but hugely significant scientists who influence our every day, Rachel Swaby's profiles span centuries of courageous thinkers and illustrate how each one's ideas developed, from their first moment of scientific engagement through the research and discovery for which they're best known.
Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
Call Number: RG950 .W675 2012
ISBN: 9780143123255
Publication Date: 2012-08-29
Jennifer Worth was just twenty-two when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in London's East End in the 1950s. Coming from a sheltered background there were tough lessons to be learned. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying.
Life Support by Suzanne Gordon; Claire M. Fagin (Foreword by)
Call Number: RT 82 .G67 2007
ISBN: 9780801465031
Publication Date: 2012-07-15
In this book, Suzanne Gordon describes the everyday work of three RNs in Boston-a nurse practitioner, an oncology nurse, and a clinical nurse specialist on a medical unit.
Critical Care by Theresa Brown
Call Number: RT 120 .I5 B76 2010
ISBN: 9780061791550
Publication Date: 2010-06-01
"At my job, people die," writes Theresa Brown, capturing both the burden and the singular importance of her profession. Brown, a former English professor, chronicles her first year as an R.N. in medical oncology.
Ordinary Miracles in Nursing by Patricia Winstead-Fry; Deborah R. Labovitz
Call Number: RT 82 .W56 2006
ISBN: 9780763738143
Publication Date: 2005-09-28
This book contains a collection of true stories from ordinary nurses, about ordinary patients, and the ordinary miracles that occur when they come together. Illustrating the routine acts nurses perform to improve the lives of their patients, the stories span a myriad of patients and settings.

Non-Fiction

Unwell women : a journey through medicine and myth in a man-made world by Elinor Cleghorn
Call Number: RA564.85 .C54 2021
ISBN: 9781474616850
Publication Date: 2021
We want our doctors to listen to us and care for us as people, but we also need their assessments of our pain and fevers, aches and exhaustion to be free of any prejudice about who we are, our gender, or the colour of our skin. But medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history.
Fighting the First Wave by Peter Baldwin
Call Number: RA644.C67 B35 2021
ISBN: 9781316518335
Publication Date: 2021-03-18
COVID-19 is the biggest public health and economic disaster of our time. It has posed the same threat across the globe, yet countries have responded very differently and some have clearly fared much better than others. Peter Baldwin uncovers the reasons why in this definitive account of the global politics of pandemic.
Life on the Line by Emma Goldberg
Call Number: RA644.C67 G64 2021
ISBN: 9780063073388
Publication Date: 2021-06-08
Weaving together in-depth interviews with doctors, their diaries, and notes, this page-turning account follows the medical students who received their degrees early to help treat thousands of critically ill COVID-19 patients in New York City during the height of the pandemic.
Immune by Philipp Dettmer
Call Number: QR181 .D47 2021
ISBN: 9780593241318
Publication Date: 2021-11-02
Although everyone who has ever had a cold is familiar with the human immune system and its importance, few understand just how complex and intricate the immune system is. In Immune, Internet creator and storyteller Philipp Dettmer takes readers on a journey through the fortress of the human body and its defenses.
Just Get on the Pill by Krystale E. Littlejohn
Call Number: HQ766.5.U6 L48 2021
ISBN: 9780520307452
Publication Date: 2021-08-31
In Just Get on the Pill, Littlejohn draws on interviews to show how young women come to take responsibility for prescription birth control as the 'woman's method' and relinquish control of external condoms as the 'man's method.' She uncovers how gendered compulsory birth control-in which women are held accountable for preventing and resolving pregnancies in gender-constrained ways-encroaches on women's reproductive autonomy and erodes their ability to protect themselves from disease.
Vaccine Hesitancy by Maya J. Goldenberg
Call Number: QR189 .G64 2021
ISBN: 9780822946557
Publication Date: 2021-03-09
The public has voiced concern over the adverse effects of vaccines from the moment Dr. Edward Jenner introduced the first smallpox vaccine in 1796.
The Pain Gap by Anushay Hossain
Call Number: RA564.85 .H67 2021
ISBN: 9781982177775
Publication Date: 2021-10-26
Explore real women's tales of healthcare trauma and medical misogyny with this meticulously researched, in-depth examination of the women's health crisis in America-and what we can do about it.
This Is Your Brain on Birth Control by Sarah Hill
Call Number: HQ766 .H485 2019
ISBN: 9780525536031
Publication Date: 2019-10-01
An eye-opening book that reveals crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control should know. This groundbreaking book sheds light on how birth control affects women--and the world around them--in ways we are only just beginning to understand.
Anti-Vaxxers by Jonathan M. Berman
Call Number: RA638 .B47 2020
ISBN: 9780262539326
Publication Date: 2020-09-08
Vaccines are a documented success story, one of the most successful public health interventions in history. Yet there is a vocal anti-vaccination movement and the propagation of anti-vax claims through books, documentaries, and social media. In Anti-vaxxers, Jonathan Berman explores the phenomenon of the anti-vaccination movement, recounting its history from its nineteenth-century antecedents to today's activism, examining its claims, and suggesting a strategy for countering them.
The Sawbones Book by Justin McElroy; Sydnee McElroy; Teylor Smirl (Illustrator)
Call Number: R133 .M33 2018
ISBN: 1681883813
Publication Date: 2018-10-09
Wondering whether eating powdered mummies might be just the thing to cure your ills? Tempted by those vintage ads suggesting you wear radioactive underpants for virility? Ever considered drilling a hole in your head to deal with those pesky headaches? Probably not. But for thousands of years, people have done things like this.

Graphic Novels

COVID Chronicles
Call Number: Graphic Novel Comics
ISBN: 9780271090146
Publication Date: 2022-03-22
A collection of short comics about the COVID-19 pandemic. Diverse artists address disruptions in work, school, and family life as well as failures in public policy, racial biases, and systemic inequalities revealed by the pandemic.
A Shot in the Arm! by Don Brown
Call Number: Graphic Novel Brown
ISBN: 9781419750014
Publication Date: 2021-04-20
This is the history of vaccinations and the struggle to protect people from infectious disease. Beginning with smallpox-perhaps humankind's greatest affliction to date-and concluding with an overview of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Body Factory by Héloïse Chochois; Kendra Boileau (Translator)
Call Number: Graphic Novel Chochois
ISBN: 9780271087061
Publication Date: 2021-07-13
A graphic novel exploring amputation, revealing details about famous amputees throughout history, the invention of the tourniquet, phantom limb syndrome, types of prostheses, and transhumanist technologies.
The Bad Doctor by Ian Williams
Call Number: Graphic Novel William
ISBN: 9780271067544
Publication Date: 2015-03-15
In this graphic novel, a doctor doubts his ability to make decisions about the lives of others when he may need more than a little help himself.
The Stuff of Life by Mark Schultz; Zander Cannon (Illustrator); Kevin Cannon (Illustrator)
Call Number: Graphic Novel Schultz
ISBN: 9780809094943
Publication Date: 2008-12-23
Learn about the fundamentals of human DNA and evolution in clear, simple language.
Couch Fiction: a graphic tale of psychotherapy by Philippa Perry; Junko Graat; Andrew Samuels (Afterword by)
Call Number: Graphic Novel Perry
ISBN: 9780230252035
Publication Date: 2010-04-29
What is it like to be a fly on a psychotherapist's wall? This compelling case study in the form of a graphic novel vividly explores therapy sessions as a search for understanding and truth.
Cancer Vixen by Marisa Acocella Marchetto
Call Number: Graphic Novel Marchet
ISBN: 9780375714740
Publication Date: 2009-09-29
Marchetto tells the story of her 11-month, ultimately triumphant, bout with breast cancer, from diagnosis to cure and every challenging step in between.

Fiction

Not a Sound by Heather Gudenkauf
Call Number: PS3607.U346 N68 2017
ISBN: 9780778319955
Publication Date: 2017-05-30
When she discovers the body of a fellow nurse deep in the woods near her cabin, Amelia Winn, who lost her hearing in an accident two years earlier, is plunged into a mystery that could shatter her carefully reconstructed life.
The Fire by Night by Teresa Messineo
Call Number: PS3613.E874 F57 2017
ISBN: 9780062459107
Publication Date: 2017-01-17
In war-torn France, Jo McMahon, an Italian-Irish girl from the tenements of Brooklyn, tends to six seriously wounded soldiers in a makeshift medical unit. Enemy bombs have destroyed her hospital convoy, and now Jo singlehandedly struggles to keep her patients and herself alive in a cramped and freezing tent close to German troops.
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Call Number: PS3566.I372 S63 2016
ISBN: 9780345544957
Publication Date: 2016-10-11
Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient.
An Unmarked Grave by Charles Todd
Call Number: PS 3570 .O37 U56 2012
ISBN: 9780062015723
Publication Date: 2012-06-05
While contending with wounded soldiers and influenza patients, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford stumbles upon the body of an officer and family friend who has been murdered, and uses her father's connections in the military to search for an elusive killer.

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