From the story of patient advocates who revolutionized research on a rare disease to an exploration of the role of architecture in medicine and healing, you’ll want to add these "must-reads" from this year's Health speakers to your reading list. Select books will be highlighted in talks at the event and will be available at the campus bookstore. Additionally, be sure to check the agenda for authors who will be signing their books during “Wine and Sign” happy hours.
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food, Dan Barber
Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I’ve Loved) and No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear), Kate Bowler
She Persisted in Science: Brilliant Women Who Made a Difference, Chelsea Clinton
We the Scientists: How a Daring Team of Parents and Doctors Forged a New Path for Medicine, Amy Dockser Marcus
Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope into Action, David Fajgenbaum
Wide Awake and Dreaming: A Memoir of Narcolepsy, Julie Flygare
Channel Kindness: Stories of Kindness and Community, Born This Way Foundation (read by Cynthia Germanotta)
The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism and The Vagina Bible, Jen Gunter
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, Walter Isaacson
Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People, Tracy Kidder
Health Design Thinking: Creating Products and Services for Better Health, 2nd Edition, Bon Ku
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us, Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity, Michael Murphy
Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World, Vivek Murthy
Stories from the Shadows: Reflections of a Street Doctor, Jim O'Connell
Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World, Gretchen Rubin
The Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding, Kimberly Seals Aller
All Things Aside: Absolutely Correct Opinions, Iliza Shlesinger
Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response, Andy Slavitt
Dr. Disaster's Guide to Surviving Everything: Essential Advice for Any Situation Life Throws Your Way, John Torres
The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix It and The Rested Child: Why Your Tired, Wired, or Irritable Child May Have a Sleep Disorder--and How to Help, Chris Winter
Dynamic Pathways to Recovery from Alcohol Use Disorder, Katie Witkiewitz (ed.)
Super Senses: The Science of Your 32 Senses and How to Use Them, Emma Young
Roe: The History of a National Obsession, Mary Ziegler