Paul Kalanithi, a thirty-six-year-old neurosurgeon at the cusp of completing his training, writes this memoir after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. He weaves together his literary upbringing, his journey into medicine, and his confrontation with mortality to ask what makes a life meaningful when time is suddenly limited. […]
Archibald Cochrane, the Scottish epidemiologist whose name lives on in the Cochrane Collaboration, offers an autobiographical account of a life spent insisting that medical decisions be grounded in rigorous evidence rather than tradition or authority. He recounts his experiences as a prisoner-of-war doctor, his pioneering studies on tuberculosis and pneumoconiosis, and his lifelong campaign to […]
Angela Duckworth draws on her research with West Point cadets, spelling-bee champions, teachers, and CEOs to argue that long-term success depends less on raw talent than on a combination of passion and perseverance she calls “grit.” She examines how grit can be developed from the inside through interest, practice, purpose, and hope, and from the […]