Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Medical

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

by Susan Sontag – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (October 01, 2013)

In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how...

The Cancer Biopathy

by Wilhelm Reich – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (July 02, 2013)

A Shrinking Disease Due to Chronic Sexual Starvation

What is cancer? Traditionally, medical science has thought of it as an invasive tumor arising spontaneously in an otherwise healthy organism. In contrast,...

Bad Pharma

by Ben Goldacre – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (February 05, 2013)

We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair testing and clinical trials. In reality, those tests and trials are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors who...

The Disordered Mind

by Eric R. Kandel – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (August 28, 2018)

A Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist’s probing investigation of what brain disorders can tell us about human nature

Eric R. Kandel, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his foundational...

Pandemic

by Sonia Shah – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (February 16, 2016)

Scientists agree that a pathogen is likely to cause a global pandemic in the near future. But which one? And how?

Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have either newly emerged...