This post is to collect and collaborate on a list of interesting medical reading (but not textbooks/study). Comment your favourite books below!
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| Front page of the New Yorker in 1969, drawn by Saul Steinberg, and used as the cover of Dennett's Sweet Dreams: Philosophical obstacles to a science of consciousness. The thought bubble represents the stream of consciousness |
Neuroscience
- Oliver Sacks - case histories, interesting anecdotes (Migraine, Awakenings, A Leg to Stand On, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, Seeing Voices, An Anthropologist on Mars, The Island of the Colorblind, Uncle Tungsten, Musicophilia, The Mind's Eye, Hallucinations)
- A. R. Luria - Higher Cortical Functions in Man
- S. Freud - Dream psychology
- David Marr - Vision
- D. Hofstadter - Godel Escher Bach
- N. Doidge - The mind that changes itself
- Kandel - Principles of neural science
- En Megrim
- Blumenfeld - Neuroanatomy through clinical cases
- (Springer Series in Computational Neuroscience) Antonio Di Ieva-The Fractal Geometry of the Brain
- D Dennett - Consciousness explained
- Daniel Kahnemann - Thinking fast and slow
Philosophy
- S. Freud - Civilisation and its discontents
- A. Verghese - When breath becomes air"
- M. Aurelius - Meditations
Surgery
- Bailey & Love - Physical signs in clinical surgery
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