Illness As Narrative
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Invisible Enemies: Stories of Infectious Disease
by:
Jeanette Farrell
4.17 avg rating β 216 ratings 101. 
Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days with ALS
by:
Alison Acheson
4.50 avg rating β 185 ratings 
105. 
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
by:
Susan Bordo
4.12 avg rating β 1,858 ratings 105. 
Sentinel for Health: A History of the Centers for Disease Control 4.20 avg rating β 10 ratings
105. 
Notes on a Banana: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression
by:
David Leite
3.78 avg rating β 864 ratings 108. 
Dissonant Disabilities: Women With Chronic Illness Explore Their Lives
by:
Michelle Owen
4.12 avg rating β 8 ratings 108. 
The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
by:
Meredith Wadman
3.96 avg rating β 1,031 ratings 108. 
Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness
by:
Patty Duke
3.90 avg rating β 1,651 ratings 111. 
Sad, Mad and Bad: Women and the Mind-Doctors from 1800
by:
Lisa Appignanesi
3.69 avg rating β 934 ratings 111. 
Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry
by:
Peter McCandless
3.71 avg rating β 7 ratings 
111. 
You Can Thrive After Narcissistic Abuse: The #1 System for Recovering from Toxic Relationships 3.81 avg rating β 274 ratings
115. 
Mindfully Facing Disease and Death: Compassionate Advice from Early Buddhist Texts
by:
Bhikkhu AnΔlayo
4.51 avg rating β 53 ratings 115. 
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
by:
Elyn R. Saks
4.32 avg rating β 22,258 ratings 115. 
Psychopath Free: Recovering from Emotionally Abusive Relationships With Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Other Toxic People 4.18 avg rating β 5,834 ratings
118. 
Cancer Therapy: The Independent Consumer's Guide to Non-Toxic Treatment and Prevention
by:
Ralph W. Moss
4.10 avg rating β 10 ratings 121. 
Women, Body, Illness: Space and Identity in the Everyday Lives of Women with Chronic Illness
by:
Pamela Moss
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings 121. 
Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness 4.02 avg rating β 1,065 ratings
124. 
Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain
by:
Susan Greenhalgh
3.30 avg rating β 20 ratings 124. 
Death in Mud Lick: A True Story of Corporate Pill Pushers in Small Town America
by:
Eric Eyre
4.07 avg rating β 2,283 ratings 126. 
American Epidemic: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Opioid Crisis
by:
John McMillian
4.19 avg rating β 72 ratings 126. 
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Echoes: The Hampton Grease Band, My Life, My Music and How I Stopped Having Panic Attacks
by:
Glenn Phillips
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings 128. 
Sound Mind: My Bipolar Journey From Chaos to Composure
by:
Erika Nielsen
4.54 avg rating β 26 ratings 130. 
Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
by:
Alisa Roth
4.07 avg rating β 1,363 ratings 
132. 
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
by:
Amanda Leduc
4.07 avg rating β 5,717 ratings 132. 
134. 
Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life 3.60 avg rating β 1,182 ratings
135. 
Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life
by:
Ellen Forney
4.35 avg rating β 1,091 ratings 135. 
Don't Lose Sight: Vanity, incompetence, and my ill-fated left eye 4.62 avg rating β 13 ratings
138. 
Breaking Mad: The Insider's Guide to Conquering Anxiety
by:
Anna Williamson
3.53 avg rating β 220 ratings 139. 
Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction
by:
Jim Downs
3.97 avg rating β 201 ratings 
140. 
The Staircase Letters: An Extraordinary Friendship at the End of Life
by:
Arthur Motyer
3.54 avg rating β 41 ratings 142. 
Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England
by:
Olivia Weisser
4.33 avg rating β 12 ratings 143. 
145. 
Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family
by:
Mariel Hemingway
3.45 avg rating β 1,643 ratings 
147. 
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House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public) (Volume 21)
by:
William H. Foege
4.18 avg rating β 420 ratings 
149. 
The Lily Pond: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth and Metamorphosis
by:
Mike Barnes
3.72 avg rating β 18 ratings 
152. 
The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
by:
Jerome Groopman
4.02 avg rating β 2,103 ratings 154. 
The Burden of Sympathy: How Families Cope With Mental Illness
by:
David A. Karp
3.97 avg rating β 89 ratings 154. 
Shifting into High Gear: One Man's Grave Diagnosis and the Epic Bike Ride That Taught Him What Matters
by:
Kyle Bryant
4.29 avg rating β 103 ratings 156. 
Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People: A Disability Justice Primer
by:
Sins Invalid
4.64 avg rating β 164 ratings 
158. 
Modernism and Physical Illness: Sick Books
by:
Peter Fifield
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 158. 
Essays of the 1960s & 70s: Against Interpretation / Styles of Radical Will / On Photography / Illness as Metaphor / Uncollected Essays
by:
Susan Sontag
4.30 avg rating β 204 ratings 158. 
161. 
The Ames Strain: The Mystery Behind America's Most Deadly Bioterror Attack
by:
David Willman
4.36 avg rating β 14 ratings 
164. 
The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture 1830-1980
by:
Elaine Showalter
4.16 avg rating β 904 ratings 164. 
One Doctor: Close Calls, Cold Cases and the Mystery of Medicine
by:
Brendan Reilly
4.17 avg rating β 1,953 ratings 166. 
There I Am: The Journey from Hopelessness to HealingβA Memoir
by:
Ruthie Lindsey
4.31 avg rating β 2,230 ratings 166. 
Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness
by:
Jessie Close
3.88 avg rating β 1,083 ratings 
170. 
Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir
by:
Natalie Goldberg
4.15 avg rating β 523 ratings 
171. 
The Chronic Illness Experience: Embracing the Imperfect Life
by:
Cheri Register
4.19 avg rating β 27 ratings 
182. 
Justinianβs Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe
by:
William Rosen
3.67 avg rating β 2,466 ratings 182. 
Lifting the Bull: Overcoming Chronic Back Pain Fibromyalgia and Environmental Illness
by:
Diane Dawber
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating 
184. 
Walks on the Margins: A Story of Bipolar Illness
by:
Kathy Brandt
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 42 ratings 
186. 
Shouting Won't Help: Why I--and 50 Million Other Americans--Can't Hear You
by:
Katherine Bouton
3.66 avg rating β 471 ratings 188. 
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination 4.21 avg rating β 4,064 ratings
188. 
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
by:
Candice Millard
4.22 avg rating β 81,277 ratings 
191. 
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
by:
Jonathan Shay
4.31 avg rating β 1,861 ratings 192. 
We're Killing Our Kids: How to End the Epidemic of Overweight & Sedentary Children
by:
Todd Hollander
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating 193. 
Slow Dance : A Story of Stroke, Love and Disability really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 32 ratings
194. 
Fever Season: The Story of a Terrifying Epidemic and the People Who Saved a City
by:
Jeanette Keith
3.73 avg rating β 214 ratings 195. 
Healing Politics: A Doctorβs Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic
by:
Abdul El-Sayed
4.36 avg rating β 390 ratings 195. 
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Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer 3.26 avg rating β 7,483 ratings
200. 
The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics
by:
Stephen Coss
3.73 avg rating β 782 ratings