Doctors: The Biography of Medicine
pathology—the study of human diseases, and their causes—
Siddhartha Mukherjee • The Song of the Cell
The cardinal concept in the Hippocratic Corpus was that health was equilibrium and illness an upset, an explanation probably owing much to pre-Socratic attempts to understand the stability yet changeability of nature.
Roy Porter • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science)
Conventional medical philosophy considers the patient an innocent—or virtually powerless—victim who has suffered an unprovoked attack.
Caroline Myss • Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
transforming medicine from a healing-oriented moral practice into a diagnosis-oriented science focused on discernible, and replicable, test results.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Looking for the Anti-Mimetic Doctors (Part I)
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