Book recommendations?

[mathmom]

<p>*Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers * by Mary Roach got good reviews. We own it, but I haven’t read it. It’s supposed to be full of macabre humor - might be just the thing for someone who’ll be taking his first anatomy class soon.</p>

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From Publishers Weekly
“Uproariously funny” doesn’t seem a likely description for a book on cadavers. However, Roach, a Salon and Reader’s Digest columnist, has done the nearly impossible and written a book as informative and respectful as it is irreverent and witty. From her opening lines (“The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back”), it is clear that she’s taking a unique approach to issues surrounding death.

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[Treetopleaf]

<p>“The Hot Zone” by Richard Preston is gripping.</p>

[SuNa]

<p>Stiff is a great read!</p>

[Novelisto]

<p>“The Great Influenza” by John M. Barry. About one of the worst pandemics in human (and certainly in modern) history and how group-think made it worse. Especially interesting because if such an epidemic were to happen again, we really don’t have many more tools to fight it than they did a hundred years ago. </p>

<p>“The Hot Zone” reads like a thriller…but maybe that’s because I live near and downwind of Ft. Detrick, MD, where they keep all the nasty bugs!</p>

[Rachacha]

<p>The autobiographical book “Gifted Hands” by pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson is great, I also ditto “How Doctors Think”…</p>