Narrative theme: Health & illness Books

From the pages of Molly Eiderdown’s Journal: Memoirs at the Serenity Nursing Home springs the thoughts, feelings, and observations of a woman who writes a new chapter in her own life. At seventy-nine, she enters a nursing home under duress following a...

This multi-vocal assemblage of literary and cultural responses to contagions provides insights into the companionship of posthumanities, environmental humanities, and medical humanities to shed light on how we deal with complex issues like communicable...

When Round the Red Lamp appeared in 1894, readers and reviewers were appalled. Expecting tales in the style of Conan Doyle's popular Sherlock Holmes stories, readers were shocked to find instead harrowing medical stories involving childbirth, syphilis,...

Prescription For DeathA gang of criminals devise a scheme to defraud insurance companies by faking heart attacks. Their plot includes a method of altering cardiograms, a relatively new diagnostic tool in 1931, the setting of this story.Stuart Downing, a...

A marvelously authentic novel of startling dimension that transforms the headlines of corporate wars and takeovers into the flesh and blood behind-the-scenes manipulations of a conglomerate head who begins a distinctly unfriendly corporate merger with an...

A young girl dies. Four lives converge as doctors blame each other, parents seek revenge, and lawyers want money.Daughter, Mother, Father, and Doctor provide subjective, alternative, and even contradictory versions of the same incident. Each is unable to...

Herman Strickland is a die-hard English professor and self-professed nerd who lives and breathes science fiction, history, and rock and roll. As he meticulously tracks his daily activities in journals and battles a chronic health issue, he tackles the...

This gripping novel tells the story of a young doctor's struggle to uphold his professional ethics in the face of corruption and greed. Set in London in the early 20th century, the novel is a vivid portrayal of the medical profession at a time of great...

Dr. Lieberman, a pediatrician, moves to a bucolic Connecticut town one summer when suddenly an outbreak of bizarre "accidents" begin. Some blame the so-called "crazy sickness" on the heat wave. Dr. Lieberman suspects a virus. As an epidemic of a...

Dr. Jonathan Goodman is desperate to cure his son Daniel's cancer. His wife, Lilith, becomes pregnant with another child, a sibling whose DNA can potentially cure Daniel. Their hopes are dashed when a genetic disorder is detected in their unborn child...

Pathologist Willis Kendall painstakingly diagnoses disease through his microscope, making crucial calls about the treatment of patients he never meets. But one day he looks up from the lens to face ruthless competition from a local university-based...

Sandra Lerner pleads both accused not guilty due to insanity in defense of ax murderer Juan Baptista and serial rapist and murderer Xavier Vargus. Coach Guiana Hungun conducts his own defense and is acquitted of murdering Saint Nicholas coeds. 'If the...

In this novel a couple in Annapolis, Maryland creates a new device to accurately predict heart attacks and provide seasoned medical advice in real-time. They create Novacardio after determining which companies can best help them. They enlist the aid of...

Already coping with spiritual and emotional abuse, Deirdre is diagnosed with breast cancer. Just before undergoing a mastectomy, she hears the Lord tell her to be his Amazon. Relieved to learn he's not asking her to be an enormous river, she fulfills the...

Quando a primeira carta de ódio chega após a morte de sua paciente Bonnie, a obstetra Dana Cavanagh a lê com um aperto de mão antes de colocá-la ao lado da pequena notícia do veredicto do tribunal: inocente.A correspondência de ódio continua a chegar,...

From its genesis in North Korea, Z7R2 is racing around the world unchallenged, a fatal virus infecting tens of millions. The world is now severed into two partitions: those who must wear a red mask to show their infected status, and those with white...

When trust is violated, can it ever be recovered? Alison Jacobs needs brain surgery and places ultimate trust in her sister's husband, Grant Kaplan, a world-renowned neurosurgeon and expert in treating her condition. But Grant is hiding a dark...

THE SINGULARITY TRANSFER. Princeton Neuroscientist Thomas Parker must save people he promised to keep alive, while giving adversaries a new age of warfare. In his world of secrets, no one can be trusted. If Parker fails, a resurrected evil wins and...

"In his new novel, Jerry Hurtubise takes us on an educational adventure - by putting Parkinson disease on trial. Using a courtroom setting, the author makes his case for treatment options that go beyond the standard pharmacological response. In breaking...

When a local woman is killed, police indifference leads a doctor to begin her own investigationIt is not unusual for Callie Hughes to see a dead body. As a part-time police doctor, she has seen more than most. And it was hardly unusual for her to be...

A chance encounter in a Belfast car park puts a dent in Dr Nelson's beloved 'P'n'J' Mercedes. But when an attractive dark-haired young woman steps out of the other car, his credulity is more than dented. It's blown apart, and so is his comfortable life...

New Year's 1984 brings big changes for 40-year-old Jerry O'Donnell. After a messy divorce, he quits his job as a teacher at Muir High School in Pasadena, California, to become a stockbroker. When he leases a car, he meets his fiancée, Kate Cleary...

The crisis of one stopped heart ignites the healing of two others, as Marc and an enchanting newcomer race to perform CPR on a fallen man in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Two strangers, wary survivors of love gone bad, become ardent lovers pledging their lives...

A screaming snowman plummets from the top floor of Cleveland Mercy Hospital-a decaying relic built before the first pandemic-and disappears into the snow drifts below. By the time his thawed corpse is discovered the following spring, a body count of...

Judith Somers suffers from kidney failure and must undergo dialysis three times a week. She hates every minute of it. Then Bob, a coworker, eagerly offers to be her donor. What person in kidney failure wouldn't be overjoyed to receive a kidney from a...

We ought to know about the deadly virus and thatit will kill people if you do not get treated for it. Recently, they found a cure for the H1N1 (swine flu), which is also known as a deadly virus. This flu is killing people and making others extremely sick...

Johann Walbrecht, a young Germanic hunter/soldier, is immersed in medical training at Marburg University when he is forced to flee his country after a pistol duel with the son of the region's Baron. He has no idea the course of his life is about to...

In this gripping medical thriller, a group of dedicated doctors must race against time to find the cure for a deadly virus that is spreading rapidly across the globe. With high-stakes suspense and expertly crafted characters, Miracle Drug is a must-read...

Follow Polly, a young nurse, as she navigates the trials and tribulations of working in a hospital in the early 20th century. Emma C. Dowd's charming writing style will draw you into Polly's world, immersing you in the daily struggles and joys of...

Nearly everyone in the nursing and other professions has had to say at least once in their career, "I have to write about this!" This is the author's account of events that touched her in some way.Anyone who has been a patient in a hospital or nursing...