DSECT Reading List
The following books related to drug safety and effectiveness, health care, or scientific concepts have been recommended by DSECT mentors and alumni for your enjoyment. If you would like to recommend a book, please contact the DSECT program coordinator (admin@safeandeffectiverx.com).
Happy reading!
Our list of recommendations so far include:
| Book Title | Author |
|---|---|
| A Terrible Beauty: The People and Ideas that Shape the Modern World | Peter Watson |
| A Bitter Pill: How the Medical System is Failing the Elderly | John Sloan |
| Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write | Helen Sword |
| Bad Blood | John Carreyrou |
| Better | Atul Gawande |
| Crossing the quality chasm | Committee on Quality of Health Care in America |
| Dispensing with the Truth | Alicia Mundy |
| Emperor of all Maladies | Siddartha Mukherjee |
| First Do No Harm: Making Sense of Canadian Health Reform | Terrence Sullivan and Patricia Baranek |
| Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity | David Allen |
| Health Advocacy Inc | Sharon Batt |
| How Doctors Think | Jerome Groopman |
| How to Lie with Statistics | Darrell Huff |
| Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Healthcare | Clay Christensen |
| Leading Leaders: How to Manage Smart, Talented, Rich and Powerful People | Jeswald W. Salacuse |
| Mentorship in Academic Medicine | Sharon Straus and David Sackett |
| On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health | Jerome Kassirer |
| Over-Diagnosed Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health | Gilbert Welch |
| Overdose: how excessive government regulation stifles pharmaceutical innovation | Richard Epstein |
| Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs | Jerry Avorn |
| Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease | Jeremy Greene |
| Prescription for Excellence | Michael Rachlis |
| Science Business: the promise the reality and the future of biotech | Gary P Pisano |
| Selling Sickness | Ray Monihan |
| Start with Why | Simon Sinek |
| Statistics: Your Chance for Happiness (or Misery) | Xiao-Li Meng |
| Struck by Lightening: The Curious World of Probabilities | Jeffrey Rosenthal |
| Take as Directed | Rhonda Church & Neil MacKinnon |
| The $800 Million Dollar Pill | Merrill Goozner |
| The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for his Disabled Son | Ian Brown |
| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot |
| The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA is | James D Watson |
| The Drug Trial | Mirian Shuchman |
| The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care | Clayton Christense, Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang |
| The Night Shift: Real Life in the Heart of the ER | Brian Goldman |
| The Numerati | Stephan Baker |
| The Panic Virus | Seth Mnookin |
| The Patient Will See You Now | Eric Topol |
| The Social Life of Information | John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid |
| The Taming of Chance | Ian Hacking |
| The Truth About Drug Companies | Marcia Angell |
| Thinking Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman |
| To Err is Human: | Committee on Quality of Health Care in America |
| Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life | Theodore Porter |
| Weaving the Web | Tim Berners-Lee and Mark Fischetti |
| What is this thing called Science? | A. F. Chalmers |
| What the Future Looks Like | Jim Al-Khalili |
| When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Search for Human Subjects | Adriana Petryna |
| Write | Helen Sword |
| The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects | Roberto Abadie |
