 | A Very Easy Death (Pantheon Modern Writers Series) by Simone De Beauvoir
Buy new: $8.80 / Used from: $0.99 Insights into pain management, extraordinary means, and family dynamics
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 | OLD FRIENDS CL by Tracy Kidder
Buy used from: $0.01 Inside view on aging and living under others' care. Absolutely excellent.
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 | How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.42 De-romanticizes the myth of a beautiful, peaceful death
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 | Never Change by Elizabeth Berg
Buy used from: $0.01 Somewhat romantic, unrealistic; still, a look at what living with terminal illness means
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 | What Her Body Thought by Susan Griffin
Buy used from: $0.46 Living with invisible illness, eg. fibromyalgia, CFIDS, HIV. Masterful.
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 | Illness As Metaphor And AIDS And Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
Confronting disease stereotypes, in TB and AIDS.
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 | Doctor by Edward E. Rosenbaum
Buy used from: $0.01 Viewing illness from the side of the patient for an MD
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 | One True Thing: Love What You Have by Anna Quindlen
Buy used from: $0.01 Suffering, quality of life, family; other issues in life and death; Movie excellent
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 | The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
Buy used from: $0.01 Spousal abuse--why they stay; fiction
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 | Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 Death & suicide impact the whole family; fiction
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 | Journey Through Heartsongs by Mattie J. T. Stepanek
Buy new: $10.46 / Used from: $0.01 A sentimental look at illness from a child's eyes
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 | Landscape with Human Figure by Rafael Campo
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $1.15 Poetry by an MD
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 | The Poetry of Healing: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire by Rafael Campo
Buy used from: $0.47 The human side of caring
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 | What the Body Told by Rafael Campo
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $7.18 Listening to the body and the illness
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 | The Measure of Our Days: A Spiritual Exploration of Illness by Jerome Groopman
Buy used from: $0.01 The human side of healing
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 | Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine by Jerome Groopman
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.07 The convergence of illness and spirituality
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 | Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
Buy used from: $0.76 Cultural issues in medicine
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 | Chronic Illness: Impact and Interventions (Jones and Bartlett Series in Nursing) by Ilene Morof Lubkin
Buy used from: $0.25 Dealing with chronic illness, and all its implications
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 | Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot by John Callahan
Buy new: $9.62 / Used from: $0.01 The reality of disabling illness after the acute episode by the famous cartoonist
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 | Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out
Buy used from: $0.38 Disability from the inside out.
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 | Where Is the Mango Princess? by Cathy Crimmins
Buy used from: $5.07 The experience of Traumatic Brain Injury
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 | I'll Carry the Fork! Recovering a Life After Brain Injury by Kara L. Swanson
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $10.00 Written by a TBI survivor
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| Citadel by Archibald Joseph Cronin
Buy used from: $4.29 The best fiction by a medical doctor ever written. Exploration of ethics
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 | Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
Buy new: $27.00 / Used from: $1.99 Even surgeons aren't always perfect
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| Intern by Doctor X
Buy used from: $0.88 How we take compassion away from doctors
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