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
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

Medicine, Science History, and Exposés
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

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 by Allen Hornblum

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

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

General Science
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

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex 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