Bibliography

Here’s a list of the books that have helped inform this blog (articles too numerous to mention):

Over-treatment:
Less Medicine, More Health, H. Gilbert Welch, M.D., 2015
Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine, by John Abramson, M.D, 2004
Over-Diagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health, by Drs. H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa M. Schwartz, and Steven Woloshin, 2011
Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Over Treated America, Nortin M. Hadler, M.D. 2008
The Great American Heart Hoax, by Michael Ozner, MD
Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo,by Ian Harris, MD, 2016

Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far, by Paul A. Offit, MD, 2020

Big pharma

Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How big pharma has corrupted health care, by Peter C. GØtzsche, 2013

Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning Us All Into Patients, by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels, 2006

The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What To Do About It, by Marcia Angell, M.D., 2004

White Coat Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine, by Carl Elliot, M.D, PhD, 2011

Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry, by Howard Brody, M.D. PhD, 2007

On the Take: How Medicine’s Complicity With Big Business Can Endanger Your Health, by Jerome P. Kassirer, MD, 2005

Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients, by Gen Goldacre, MD, 2012

Blood Medicine: Blowing the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever, by Kathleen Sharp, 2011 

Cholesterol

Heart Frauds: Uncovering the Biggest Health Scam in History, by Charles T. McGee, MD, 2001

The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy That Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease, by Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD, 2000

Ignore the Awkward! How the Cholesterol Myths are Kept Alive, by Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD, 2010
The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It, by Malcolm Kendrick, MD, 2007

The Practice of Medicine

No Apparent Distress: A Doctor's Coming-of-Age on the Frontiers of Medicine, by Rachel Pearson
Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What is Right for You, by Jerome Groopman, MD, and Pamela Hartzband, MD, 2011

How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, MD, 2008

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, Atul Gawande, 2014

Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician, by Sandeep Jauhar, 2014

God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine, by Victoria Sweet, 2013

Hippocrates’ Shadow: Secrets from the House of Medicine, by David H. Newman, MD, 2009

The Soul of Medicine: Tales from the Bedside, by Sherwin B. Nuland, 2010
The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center, by Charles R. Morris, 2008
Do No Harm, by Henry Marsh, M.D., 2014
Internal Medicine: A Doctor's Stories, Terrence Holt, M.D., 2014
Ending Medical Reversals, Vinayak K. Prasad, Adam S. Cifu, 2015
The Digital Doctor, Robert Wachter, 2015
Migraine, by Oliver Sacks, 1992
The Language of Kindness: A Nurses Story, Christie Watson, 2018
Counting Backwards: A Doctor's Notes on Anesthesia, by Henry Jay Przybylo, MD, 2018
In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope, by Rana Awdish, 2017
Mirror Touch: Notes from a Doctor Who Can Feel Your Pain, by Joel Salinas, 2017
Ten Drugs: How plants, Powders and Pills have shaped the History of Medicine, by Thomas Hager, 2019

You Bet Your Life, by Paul Offit, 2021

Toxicology! by Alan H.B. Wu, 2020

The science of illness
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee, 2011
Madness and Memory, by Stanley B. Prusiner, M.D., 2014
Migraines, by Oliver Sacks, M.D., 2013
The Second Brain: Your Gut Has a Mind of Its Own, by Michael D. Gershon, 1998
An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases, by Moises Velasquez-Manoff, 2012 with new Afterword, 2013

The First Cell and the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last, by Azra Raza, 2019

Treatments
Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection, John L. Sarno
Eight Steps to a Pain-Free Back, Esther Gokhale, 2008
How to Change Your Mind, by Michael Pollan, 2018
Muscle Pain Relief in 90 Seconds, Dale. L. Anderson, M.D., 1995

Falling is Not an Option: A Way to Lifelong Balance, by George Locker, 2020

Memoirs by doctors, patients or family members

The Cost of Hope, by Amanda Bennett, 2014
Heartsounds, by Martha Weinman Lear, 1984
Echoes of Heartsounds, by Martha Weinman Lear, 2014
The Body Broken: A Memoir, by Lynne Greenberg, 2009
Left Neglected, by Lisa Genova, 2011
Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death, by Katy Butler, 2013
What I learned When I Almost Died, Chris Licht
Girl in Glass, Deanna Fei, 2015
When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi, 2016
Wide Awake: A Memoir of Insomnia, by Patricia Morrisroe, 2010
In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery, by Rana Awdish, 2017

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, by Susannah Cahalan, 2019

Hunger, by Roxane Gay, 2017

Racing the Clock, by Bernd Heinrich, 2021

The medical system
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, by T.R. Reid, 2009
What Your Doctor Won't (or Can't) Tell You: The Failures of American Medicine, by Evan Levine, M.D., 2014
Mistreated: Why We Think We're Getting Good Health--and Why We're Usually Wrong, by Robert Pearl, MD, 2017
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back, by Elisabeth Rosenthal, 2017
America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System, by Stephen Brill, 2015
The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age, by Robert Wachter, 2015
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine, by Victoria Sweet, 2012
In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids, by Travis Rieder, 2019

Medical mysteries and other adventures
The Deadly Dinner Party, Jonathan A. Edlow
The Medical Detectives, Volumes I and II, Berton Rouche
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, by Sheri Fink, 2013

The Sensitives: The Rise of Environmental Illnesses and the Search for America's Last Pure Place, by Oliver Broudy, 2020

About the body
Gulp: Adventures in the Alimentary Canal, Mary Roach
Origins: How the Ninth Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives, Annie Murphy Paul
What Makes Olga Run? The Mystery of the 90-Something Track Star by Bruce Grierson
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying....by Michael Pollan, 2018
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood by Rose George, 2018

Clean: The New Science of Skin, by James Hamblin, 2020

The Body: A Guide for Occupants, by Bill Bryson, 2019

Breath, by James Nestor, 2020