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This is not a comprehensive list of databases that include eBooks. These are just some of the ones that are known to health related materials. 

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Our Library uses what's called Library of Congress Classification. This is just a fancy way to say that the books we have are shelved by subject and that we use call numbers (that start with letters) to know what shelf a book is located on. Those call numbers are directly tied to their subject. So for example, a book on animal behavior would be with all of the other QL books. 

For those of you wanting to just go to the shelves and browse here are some of the Health Studies related call numbers.

  • R Medicine (General)
    • R 735-854 Medical Education. Medical Schools. Research
      • R 853.S64 Social Aspects
  • RA Public Aspects of Medicine
    • RA 1-418.5 Medicine and the state
    • RA421-790.95 Public Health. Hygiene. Preventative Medicine
    • RA 791-954 Medical geography. Climatology. Meteorology
    • RA 960-1000.5 Medical centers. Hospitals. Dispensaries. Clinics
      • This includes ambulance service, nursing homes, and hospices.
    • RA 1001-1171 Forensic medicine. Medical jurisprudence. Legal medicine
    • RA 1190-1270 Toxicology. Poisons
  • RC Internal Medicine
    • RC 321-571 Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
      • RC 343.3 Social aspects
  • RJ Pediatrics
    • RJ 47.7 Social Aspects
  • RK Dentistry
    • RK 52.5 Social Aspects
  • RT Nursing
    • 86.5 Social Aspects. Political Aspects. Anthropological Aspects
  • RV Botanic, Thomsonian, and eclectic medicine

Social aspects of things like gerontology, birth control, abortion, etc. are housed in HQ's

Finding your way around B2 can be confusing. Below is a map of the floor, with the stacks color-coded. You can find these same map, and help navigating at the front desk of the library. 

Map of B2 in the Library with labeled color coded sections of stacks to make navigation easier.

This collection began with Cynthia Merrill, MD and past professor of the medical humanities at UR:

The A's

  • AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame / Paul Farmer
  • Against the Odds: Blacks in the Profession of Medicine in the United States / Wilbur Watson
  • Alex: The Life of a Child / Frank Deford
  • Altered Conditions: Disease, Medicine, and Storytelling / Julia Epstein
  • An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales / Oliver Sacks
  • Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient / Norman Cousins
  • Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside / Katrina Firlik
  • Articulations: The Body and Illness in Poetry / Jon Mukand, ed.
  • As I Live and Breathe: Notes of a Patient-doctor / Jamie Weisman
  • At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness / Arthur Frank
  • Attending Children: A Doctor's Education / Margaret Mohrmann
  • Awakenings / Oliver Sacks

The B's

  • Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment / James Jones
  • The Bad Doctor: The Troubled Life and Times of Dr. Iwan James / Ian Williams
  • Bad Science / Ben Goldacre
  • The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions / Esther Sternberg
  • A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics / Sylvia Nasar
  • Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School / Melvin Konner
  • Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story / Paul Monette
  • Bedside Manners: One Doctor's Reflections on the Oddly Intimate Encounters Between Patient and Healer / David Watts
  • Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance / Atul Gawande
  • Better than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream / Carl Elliott
  • Between the Heartbeats: Poetry and Prose by Nurses / Cortney Davis / Cortney Davis, ed.
  • The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "Defective" Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures Since 1915 / Martin Pernick
  • Blacks, Medical Schools, and Society / James Curtis
  • Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking / Malcolm Gladwell
  • Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures / Vincent Lam
  • Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution / Holly Tucker
  • The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients / Sonia Shah
  • The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World / Elaine Scarry
  • Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab / Christine Montross
  • The Body Silent / Robert Murphy
  • Boy Alone: A Brother's Memoir / Karl Greenfeld

The C's

  • The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination / Robert Coles
  • The Cancer Journals / Audre Lorde
  • Chance in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity / Jennifer Ackerman
  • Cheating Death: The Doctors and Medical Miracles that Are Saving Lives Against All Odds / Sanjay Gupta
  • The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right / Atul Gawande
  • Choosing Naia: A Family's Journey / Mitchell Zuckoff
  • The Citadel / Archibald Joseph Cronin
  • Classic Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases That Have Shaped Medical Ethics, with Philosophical, Legal, and Historical Backgrounds / Gregory Pence
  • Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine / Albert Johnsen
  • Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness / Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science / Atul Gawande
  • Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn / Regina Morantz-Sanchez
  • Confronting AIDS through Literature: The Responsibilities of Representation / Judith Pastore, ed.
  • Conversations on the Edge: Narratives of Ethics and Illness / Richard Zaner
  • The Country Doctor Revisited: A Twenty-First Century Reader / Therese Zink, ed.
  • Covering the Plague: AIDS and the American Media / James Kinsella
  • Culture, Health and Illness / Cecil Helman
  • The Culture of Pain / David Morris
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / Mark Haddon
  • Cutting for Stone / Abraham Verghese

The D's

  • Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair / Hilde Nelson
  • Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist
  • Dark Remedy: The Impact of Thalidomide and Its Revival as a Vital Medicine / Rock Brynner
  • Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All / Paul Offitv
  • Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History / Dorothy Crawford
  • Deadly Dinner Party and Other Medical Detective Stories / Jonathan Edlow
  • Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans / Wendell Potter
  • Death, Dissection and the Destitute / Ruth Richardson
  • Death of the Good Doctor: Lessons from the Heart of the AIDS Epidemic / Kate Scannell
  • The Desire to Heal: A Doctor's Education in empathy, Identity, and Poetry / Rafael Campo
  • Devices & Desires: Gender, Technology, and American Nursing / Margarete Sandelowski
  • Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia / Pamela Wagner
  • Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery / Henry Marsh
  • The Doctor Stories / Richard Selzer
  • The Doctor Stories / William Carlos Williams
  • A Doctor's Life: Unique Stories / William Close
  • Doctors in Blue: The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War / George Adams
  • Doctors: The Biography of Medicine / Sherwin Nuland
  • Doctors in Gray: The Confederate Medical Service / H. H. Cunningham
  • Doctors in the Making: Memoirs and Medical Education / Suzanne Poirier
  • Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah / Peter Dans
  • "Doctors Wanted: No Women Need Apply:" Sexual Barriers in the Medical Profession, 1835-1975 / Mary Walsh
  • The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis / Sherwin Nuland
  • Doctors Talking with Patients/Patients Talking with Doctors: Improving Communication in Medical Visits / Debra Roter
  • Dying to Drink: Confronting Binge Drinking on College Campuses / Henry Wechsler

The E's

  • Emergency Room: Lives Saved and Lost: Doctors Tell Their Stories / Dan Sachs, ed.
  • Empathy and the Practice of Medicine: Beyond Pills and the Scalpel / Howard Spiro, ed.
  • The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer / Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Essays in Medical Sociology: Journeys into the Field / Renee Fox
  • Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine / Bonnie Steinbock, ed.
  • Equal Partners: A Physician's Call for a New Spirit of Medicine / Jody Heymann
  • Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis / Lisa Sanders

The F's

  • The Fifty-minute Hour: A Collection of True Psychoanalytic Tales / Robert Lindner
  • Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality / Pauline Chen
  • First, Do No Harm / Lisa Belkin
  • For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Esperts' Advice to Women / Barbara Ehenreich
  • Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers / Jay Baruch

The G's

  • Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story / Cecil Murphey

The H's

  • Haiti After the Earthquake / Paul Farmer
  • The Healing Arts: An Oxford Illustrated Anthology / R. S. Downie, ed.
  • Healing Arts in Dialogue: Medicine and Literature / Joanne Trautman
  • Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative Structure of Experience / Cheryl Mattingly
  • The Healing Mind: The Vital Links Between Brain and Behavior, Immunity and Disease / Paul Martin
  • Healing the Wounds: A Physician Looks at His Work / David Hilfiker
  • Health, Disease and Illness: Concepts in Medicine / Arthur Caplan, ed.
  • Health Humanities / Peter Crawford
  • Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago / Eric Klinenberg
  • Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman
  • Her Own Medicine: A Woman's Journey from Student to Doctor / Sayantani DasGupta
  • Hippocrates' Shadow: Secrets from the House of Medicine / David Newman
  • Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids / Julie Salamon
  • Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years / Michael Collins
  • The House of God / Samuel Shem
  • How Doctors Think / Jerome Groopman
  • How Doctors Think: Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine / Kathryn Montgomery
  • How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter / Sherwin Nuland
  • Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays Commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics
  • The Human Side of Medicine: Learning What It's Like to Be a Patient and What It's Like to Be a Physician / Laurence Savett

The I's

  • I Know This Much is True / Wally Lamb
  • Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age / David Morris
  • Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors / Susan Sontag
  • The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing and the Human Condition / Arthur Kleinman
  • Imagine What It's Like: A Literature and Medicine Anthology / Ruth Nadelhaft, ed.
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot
  • In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom / Qanta Ahmed
  • Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine / Danielle Ofri
  • Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues / Paul Farmer
  • Intern: A Doctor's Initiation / Sandeep Jauhar
  • The Intern Blues / Robert Marion
  • Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes / Robert Wachter
  • Interpreter of Maladies: Stories / Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Intoxicated by My Illness: And Other Writings on Life and Death / Anatole Broyard
  • Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action / Merrill Singer

The J's

  • Judith's Pavilion: The Haunting Memories of a Neurosurgeon / Marc Flitter

The K's

  • Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal / Rachel Remen

The L's

  • The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying / Lynn DeSpelder
  • The Last Lecture / Randy Pausch
  • The Last Passage: Recovering a Death of Our Own / Donald Heinz
  • The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine / Carl Elliott
  • The Last Taboo: Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis / Maggie Black
  • Learning to Play God: The Coming of Age of a Young Doctor / Robert Marion
  • A Leg to Stand On / Oliver Sacks
  • Let Me Listen to Your Heart: Writings by Medical Students / David Svahn
  • A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology / Robert Coles, ed.
  • Listening to Prozac / Peter Kramer
  • Literary Anatomies: Women's Bodies and Health in Literature / Delese Wear
  • Literature and Aging: An Anthology / Martin Kohn, ed.
  • The Lonely Patient: How We Experience Illness / Michael Stein
  • Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's / John Robison
  • The Lost Art of Healing: Practicing Compassion in Medicine / Bernard Lown

The M's

  • Magic, Science, and Health: The Aims and Achievements of Medical Anthropology / Robert Anderson
  • Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America / Laurie Abraham
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales / Oliver Sacks
  • The Measure of Our Days: A Spiritual Exploration of Illness / Jerome Groopman
  • Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present / Harriet Washington
  • Medical Firsts: From Hippocrates to the Human Genome / Robert Adler
  • Medical Sociology / William Cockerham
  • Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia / Todd Savitt
  • Medicine as Ministry: Reflections on Suffering, Ethics, and Hope / Margaret Mohrmann
  • Medicine at the Crossroads: The Crisis in Healthcare / Melvin Konner
  • Medicine, Motherhood and Mercy: The Story of a Black Woman Doctor / Sister Scally
  • Medicine, Rationality, and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective / Byron Good
  • Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer / Susan Gubar
  • The Midnight Meal and Other Essays About Doctors, Patients, and Medicine / Jerome Lowenstein
  • Migraine / Oliver Sacks
  • Mortal Embrace: Living with AIDS / Emmanuel Dreuilhe
  • Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery / Richard Selzer
  • Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World / Tracy Kidder
  • Multicultural Medicine and Health Disparities / David Satcher, ed.
  • My Own Country: A Doctor's Story / Abraham Verghese
  • My Sister's Keeper / Jodi Picoult
  • My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey / Jill Taylor

The N's

  • Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing / Cheryl Mattingly, ed.
  • Narrative Based Medicine: Dialogue and Discourse in Clinical Practice / Trisha Greenhalgh, ed.
  • Narrative Matters: The Power of the Personal Essay in Health Policy / Fitzhugh Mullan
  • Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness / Rita Charon
  • The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide / Robert Lifton
  • Ninth Street Notebook: Voice of a Nurse in the City / Veneta Masson
  • No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States Since 1880 / Allan Brandt
  • Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest to Manipulate Height / Susan Cohen
  • Not All of Us Are Saints: A Doctor's Journey with the Poor / David Hilfiker
  • A Not Entirely Benign Procedure / Perri Klass

The O's

  • On Apology / Aaron Lazare
  • On Call: A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency / Emily Transure
  • On Doctoring: Stories, Poems, Essays / Richard Reynolds, ed.
  • One Doctor: Close Calls, Cold Cases, and the Mysteries of Medicine / Brendan Reilly
  • One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient / David Biro
  • One Word / Marc Straus
  • Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health / Gilbert Welch

The P's

  • Pain as Human Experience: An Anthropological Perspective / Mary-Jo Good, ed.
  • Pain Seeking Understanding: Suffering, Medicine, and Faith / Margaret Mohrmann, ed.
  • Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader / Haun Saussy, ed.
  • Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor / Paul Farmer
  • Patient, Heal thyself: How the New Medicine Puts the Patient in Charge / Robert Veatch
  • Patients and Doctors: Life-Changing Stories from Primary Care / Jeffrey Borkan
  • Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture: An Exploration of the Borderland between Anthropology, Medicine, and Psychiatry / Arthur Kleinman
  • The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War / Eileen Welsome
  • Privilege in the Medical Academy: A Feminist Examines Gender, Race, and Power / Delese Wear

The R's

  • Raising Lazarus: A Memoir / Robert Pensack
  • Regarding the Pain of Others / Susan Sontag
  • Rehab at the Florida Avenue Grill / Veneta Masson
  • The Renewal of Generosity / Arthur Frank
  • Rethinking Psychiatry: From Cultural Category to Personal Experience / Arthur Kleinman
  • Return to The House of God: Medical Resident Education 1978-2008 / Martin Kohn, ed.
  • Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls / Mary Pipher

The S's

  • The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing / Lori Alvord
  • A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life / Arnold Weinstein
  • A Second Opinion: Rescuing America's Health Care / Arnold Relman
  • Second Opinions: Eight Clinical Dramas of Decision Making on the Front Lines of Medicine / Jerome Groopman
  • The Screaming Room: A Mother's Journal of Her Son's Struggle with AIDS / Barbara Peabody
  • Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf / Oliver Sacks
  • Sick to Death and Not Going to Take It Anymore! Reforming health Care for the Last Years of Life / Joanne Lynn
  • The Silent World of Doctor and Patient / Jay Katz
  • Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue / Danielle Ofri
  • Sizwe's Test: A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS Epidemic / Jonny Steinberg
  • Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio / Peg Kehret
  • The Social Medicine Reader / Gail Henderson, ed.
  • The Social Medicine Reader: Health Policy, Markets, and Medicine / Jonathan Oberlander, ed.
  • The Social Medicine Reader: Patients, Doctors, and Illness / Nancy King, ed.
  • The Social Transformation of American Medicine / Paul Starr
  • Something for the Pain: Compassion and Burnout in the ER / Paul Austin
  • The Soul of a Doctor: Harvard Medical Students Face Life and Death / Susan Pories
  • The Soul of Medicine: Tales from the Bedside / Sherwin Nuland
  • The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures / Anne Fadiman
  • Stories of Sickness / Howard Brody
  • Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics / Rita Charon
  • Survival Stories: Memoirs of Crisis / Kathryn Rhett, ed.
  • Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor / Peter Selwyn
  • Sympathy & Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine / Regina Morant

The T's

  • The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit / Melvin Konner
  • The Tennis Partner / Abraham Verghese
  • This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine / Eliza Lo Chin
  • Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell / Paul Lombardo
  • Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care / Kenneth Ludmerer
  • Timeless Healing: The Power and Biology of Belief / Herbert Benson
  • To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System / Institute of Medicine
  • Touched with Fire: Manic-depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament / Kay Jamison
  • Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs / Leon Kass
  • Trials, Tribulations, and Celebrations: African-American Perspectives on Health, Illness, Aging and Loss / Marian Secundy, ed.
  • Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine / Simon Singh
  • Troubled Voices: Stories of Ethics and Illness / Richard Zaner
  • Tuskegee's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study / Susan Reverby
  • Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital / Eric Manheimer
  • 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa / Stephanie Nolen

The V's

  • A Very Easy Death / Simone de Beauvoir
  • The Virtues in Medical Practice / Edmund Pellegrino
  • Vital Lines: Contemporary Fiction About Medicine / Jon Mukand, ed.

The W's

  • Waist-high in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled / Nancy Mairs
  • What I Learned in Medical School: Personal Stories of Young Doctors / Kevin Takakuwa, ed.
  • What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student's Journey / Audrey Young
  • What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life Amidst Uncertainty and Danger / Arthur Kleinman
  • When a Doctor Hates a Patient and Other Chapters in a Young Physician's Life / Richard Peschel
  • When Breath Becomes Air / Paul Kalanithi
  • White Coat - Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine / Carl Elliott
  • White Coat, Clenched Fist: The Political Education of an American Physician / Fitzhugh Mullan
  • A Whole New Life / Reynolds Price
  • Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers / Robert Sapolsky
  • Women in Medical Education: An Anthology of Experience / Delese Wear
  • Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America / Nortin Hadler
  • The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics / Arthur Frank
  • Writing at the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine / Arthur Kleinman

The Y's

  • The Year of Magical Thinking / Joan Didion

The Z's

  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values / Robert Pirsig

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