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Treating Traumatic Loss: A Clinician’s Guide to Helping Clients Cope with a Sudden, Violent, or Difficult Death Using the GRIEF Approach
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Thread: A Caesarean story of myth, magic and medicine
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The Tender Cut: Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury
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Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains
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Everything I Know About Hormones: Six Steps to Optimal Health and Happiness
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Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer’s Families and the Search for a Cure
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How to Fall in Love with Questions: A New Way to Thrive in Times of Uncertainty
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On Immunity: An Inoculation
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The Complete Bone and Joint Health Plan: Help Prevent and Treat Osteoporosis and Arthritis
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Brain: An Owner’s Guide
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Going Menopostal: What You (and Your Doctor) Need to Know About the Real Science of Menopause and Perimenopause
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The Science of Sex: Every Question About Your Sex Life Answered
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It’s Probably Nothing: Critical Conversations on the Women’s Health Crisis (and How to Thrive Despite It)
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Healing Pelvic Pain
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Labour of Love: A Midwife’s Stories of Birth, Life and Speaking Up for Women
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Held Together: A Shared Memoir of Motherhood, Medicine, and Imperfect Love
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Too Young for Cancer: One Woman’s Battle for a Diagnosis and a Fighting Chance
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The Story of a Heart
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The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker
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Unshrunk: How The Mental Health Industry Took Over My Life – And My Fight to Get it Back
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Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
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The Ozempic Revolution: A Doctor’s Proven Plan for Success to Help You Reverse Obesity, End Yo-Yo Dieting, and Protect Yourself from Disease
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Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott
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The Body Is a Doorway: A Memoir: A Journey Beyond Healing, Hope, and the Huma
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How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists
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Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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Psychedelics and Mental Health: Neuroscience and the Power of Psychoactives in Therapy
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The PMDD Phenomenon
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I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art
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The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost—and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
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How Do You Feel?: One Doctor’s Search for Humanity in Medicine
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The Cycle: Confronting the Pain of Periods and PMDD
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The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women’s Lives Forever
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Grown Woman Talk: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Healthy
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The Age of Living Machines: How the Convergence of Biology and Engineering Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
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All That Remains: A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes
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Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
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Much Too Vulgar: A Horror Novel
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The Healing Power of Storytelling: Using Personal Narrative to Navigate Illness, Trauma, and Loss
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Butcher
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Estrogen Matters: Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve and Lengthen Women’s Lives—Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer
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A Mom Like That: A Memoir of Postpartum Psychosis
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I’m Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America
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A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole
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Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood
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Flight of the Wild Swan
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Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
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The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
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Take Care of Them Like My Own: Faith, Fortitude, and a Surgeon’s Fight for Health Justice
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Endo Unfiltered: How to take charge of your endometriosis and PCOS
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First in Line: How COVID-19 Placed Me on the Frontlines of a Health Care Crisis
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All In Her Head: How Gender Bias Harms Women’s Mental Health
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The Big Freeze: A Reporter’s Personal Journey into the World of Egg Freezing and the Quest to Control Our Fertility
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Hysterical: Why We Need to Talk About Women, Hormones, and Mental Health
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All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today
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Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
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Vital Organs
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Reversing Alzheimer’s: The New Toolkit to Improve Cognition and Protect Brain Health
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The XX Brain
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Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America
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The New Rules of Menopause: A Mayo Clinic Guide to Perimenopause and Beyond
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Little Earthquakes: A Memoir
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This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained
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The Insomnia Diaries
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Ill Feelings
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Murder by Degrees
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Candace Pert: Genius, Greed, and Madness in the World of Science
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Pain and Prejudice: How the Medical System Ignores Women―And What We Can Do About It
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Bleed: Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care
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Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America
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Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI
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Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
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Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Astonishing New Science of the Senses
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Incurable Optimist: Living with Illness and Chronic Hope
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Stronger Than Infertility: The Essential Guide to Navigating Every Step of Your Journey
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Dying Green: A Journey Through End-of-Life Medicine in Search of Sustainable Health Care
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Hormonal
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Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
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Dismissed: Tackling the Biases That Undermine our Health Care
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Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America
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All You Need to Know About Menopause 
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When I Die I’m Going to Heaven ‘Cause I’ve Spent My Time in Hell: A Memoir of My Year As an Army Nurse in Vietnam
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Revolutionizing Women’s Healthcare: The Feminist Self-Help Movement in America
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The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality
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We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body’s Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds
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Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World
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No Longer Radical: Understanding Mastectomies and Choosing the Breast Cancer Care That’s Right For You
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Beautiful Trauma: An Explosion, an Obsession, and a New Lease on Life
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Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
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Without a Doubt: How to Go from Underrated to Unbeatable
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Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life
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Is This Normal?: Judgement-Free Straight Talk About Your Body
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A History of Science: From Agriculture to Artificial Intelligence
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The Woman With the Cure
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Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began
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A Living Remedy: A Memoir
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Dr. Cuterus: Everything Nobody Tells You About Your Body
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Hysterical: A Memoir
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Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
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This Is Not a Pity Memoir
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State Change: End Anxiety, Beat Burnout, and Ignite a New Baseline of Energy and Flow
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Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America
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Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
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The Kindness Method: Change Your Habits for Good Using Self-Compassion and Understanding
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The Gut Stuff: An Empowering Guide to Your Gut and Its Microbes
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This Is How You Vagina: All About Your Vajayjay and Why You Probably Shouldn’t Call It That
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Emotional Female
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Two Old Broads: Stuff You Need to Know That You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know
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All the Living and the Dead: from Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life’s Work
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I Know What’s Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom
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Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses
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Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
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Not One of These Poems Is About You
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Addicted to Perfect: A Journey Out of the Grips of Adderall
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Ladyparts
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The Care of Strangers
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Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We “Catch” Mental Illness
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The M Word: How to thrive in menopause
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Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life
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Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
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Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex
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Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics
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You’re the Only One I’ve Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
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Trauma Junkie: Memoirs of an Emergency Flight Nurse
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On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear
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The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir
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Raising a Rare Girl
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The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine
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Sex Rx: Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
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Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women
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Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age
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Healing with CBD: How Cannabidiol Can Transform Your Health without the High
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The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
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Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
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The Two Kinds of Decay
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Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health and What We Can Do About It
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The Complete A to Z for Your V: A Women’s Guide to Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Your Vagina–Health, Pleasure, Hormones, and More
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Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
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Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
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No Man’s Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I
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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
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Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
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Sick: A Memoir
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This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
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Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Healing the Impact of Loss
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Dangerous Boobies: Breaking Up with My Time – Bomb Breasts
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The Antidote For Everything
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The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness
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The CBD Oil Solution: Treat Chronic Pain, Anxiety, Insomnia, and More—Without the High
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Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
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Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself—and the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
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The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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The Epigenetics Revolution
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
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Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine
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The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Mutant Germs Threatens Us All
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The Undying
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A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
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Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy
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The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
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Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
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The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina—Separating the Myth from the Medicine
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
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The Wonder Down Under: A User’s Guide to the Vagina
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It’s Always Something
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Breaking and Mending: A doctor’s story of burnout and recovery
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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Marked Women: The Cultural Politics of Cervical Cancer in Venezuela
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Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution
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Cured: How the Berlin Patients Defeated HIV and Forever Changed Medical Science
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Happening
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Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
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Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s Pain
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This Is How I Save My Life: From California to India, a True Story Of Finding Everything When You Are Willing To Try Anything
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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The Mystery Gut: A Complete Guide to Common Gut Conditions and Improving Gut Health
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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Tell Me Everything You Don’t Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life
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The Chick and the Dead: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors
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