Why do I have book recommendations on my Website? Well, because I believe that many of my clients enjoy reading the same types of non-fiction, science-based literature that I do. Many of these books will help to give you a historical perspective on various areas of science and medicine, while others will allow you to explore new and fascinating areas of science beyond your own expertise. I have read all of the books listed and would recommend them all to you.

Pharmaceuticals/Drug Industry/Biotechnology

White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine by Carl Elliott

Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine by John Abramson

The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It by Marcia Angell

Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels

The $800 Million Pill: The Truth behind the Cost of New Drugs by Merrill Goozner

Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs by Stephen Fried

Poison Pills: The Untold Story of the Vioxx Drug Scandal by Tom Nesi

Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs by Melody Petersen

The Cell Game: Sam Waksal's Fast Money and False Promises--and the Fate of ImClone's Cancer Drug by Alex Prud'homme

From Alchemy to IPO: The Business of Biotechnology by Cynthia Robbins-Roth

First Fruit: The Creation of the Flavr Savr Tomato and the Birth of Biotech Foods by Belinda Martineau

The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects by Roberto Abadie (recommended with reservations as it is overly focused on a small subset of people)

Medicine, Science History, and Exposés

Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science by James D. Watson

The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear by Seth Mnookin

The Red Market: On the Trail of the World’s Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers by Scott Carney

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Portrait of a Burger as a Young Calf: The Story of One Man, Two Cows, and the Feeding of a Nation by Peter Lovenheim

The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T.R. Reid

The Great Starvation Experiment: The Heroic Men Who Starved So That Millions Could Live by Todd Tucker

Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine by R. Barker Bausell

Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans by Wendell Potter

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle by Eric Lax

The Case of the Frozen Addicts: How the Solution of an Extraordinary Medical Mystery Spawned a Revolution in the Understanding and Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease by J. William Langston and Jon Palfreman

The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World by James Shreeve

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry

Flu: The Story of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It by Gina Kolata

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences by John Allen Paulos

Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock

The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler by Thomas Hager

Hell's Cartel: IG Farben and the Making of Hitler's War Machine by Diarmuid Jeffreys

The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug by Thomas Hager

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande

How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman

Second Opinions by Jerome Groopman

The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness by Jerome Groopman

Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky

The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis by Paul A. Offit

Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment by James H. Jones

Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans by Jonathan Moreno

Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-45 and the American Cover-Up by Sheldon Harris

Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison by Allen Hornblum

Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America's Favorite Food by Steve Striffler

The Undergrowth of Science: Delusion, Self-Deception and Human Frailty by Walter Gratzer (sloppily written and poorly edited, but an interesting collection of stories)

Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic by John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H. Naylor and David Horsey

Tabloid Medicine: How the Internet is Being Used to Hijack Medical Science for Fear and Profit by Robert Goldberg (contains some interesting material, but I can’t fully recommend this due to a lack of acknowledgement that industry critics are often right)

General Science

Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History by Ben Mezrich

Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson

The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less, Not More by Chris Anderson

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer

Bogus Science: Or, Some People Really Believe These Things by John Grant

Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success by Mathew Syed

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way to be Smart by Ian Ayres

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences by John Allen Paulos

Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture by Ellen Ruppel Shell

Alex and Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence, and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process by Irene Pepperberg

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink

SuperFreakanomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Freakanomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Why Not? How To Use Everyday Ingenuity To Solve Problems Big And Small by Barry J. Nalebuff and Ian Ayres

The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life by Ben Sherwood

A Fish Caught in Time, the Search for the Coelacanth by Samantha Weinberg

Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud by Robert L. Park

The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor by Ken Silverstein

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach

Tyranosaurus Sue by Steve Fiffer

Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain by Michael Paterniti

Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul by Edward Humes

Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future by Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston

Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science by Richard Preston