Hospitals


One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #8)
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
The Women
The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley
Clans of the Alphane Moon
The Graceview Patient
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
You're in Good Paws
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Clean
Suicide Notes
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year
Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Tuskegee Experiments by Michael V. UschanTime to Think by Hannah BarnesSickening by John AbramsonBad Pharma by Ben Goldacre
Medical and Psychiatric Scandals
68 books — 6 voters
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenWithout MAlice by Amesbury ClarkeThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Mental Illness and Mental Hospitals
189 books — 95 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootDoctors by Erich SegalCutting for Stone by Abraham   VergheseStill Alice by Lisa GenovaWhen Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Best Books with a Medical Setting.
409 books — 201 voters
Me Before You by Jojo MoyesThe Fault in Our Stars by John  GreenInside the O'Briens by Lisa GenovaThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
Medical Literature
85 books — 16 voters

Atul Gawande
Studies generally find that teaching hospitals have better outcomes than non-teaching hospitals.
Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Michel Foucault
Is it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authorities of surveillance and registration, its experts in normality, who continue and multiply the functions of the judge, should have become the modern instrument of penality? Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?
Michel Foucault

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