Science and Inquiry discussion

OK....believe it or not it is time to start thinking about the May read. It looks like the next topic is medicine. Post your recommendations for a book to read in the medicine genre here. I'll pool them together and set a poll to vote on in 1 week. This can be any aspect of medicine and can include history books.

I recommend:

The Knife Man Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery

How about Stiff The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers?

Susanna wrote: "How about Stiff The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers?"

That was an excellent book. Hillarious and disgusting, yet still respectful.

I'd love to read either of the above books, but I'll go ahead and offer my own recommendation:

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande

Here's my vote

Ancient Medicine Sciences of Antiquity by Vivian Nutton

An Amazon reviewer called it "surprisingly lively and readable for an academic tome". Sounds like my kind of book.

All these suggestions look great. I'll also nominate Awakenings by Oliver Sacks, which a friend once recommended to me.

I'll nominate When Germs Travel Six major epidemics that have invaded America since 1900 and the fears they have unleashed, which is about the medical responses to recent epidemics in the U.S., and how social issues come into play.

I'll post the poll on Wednesday. Any last minute suggestions out there?

So I'm about halfway through Complications and I'm really digging it. Can't wait to discuss some of the issues that Gawande brings up.