
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker, Steve West, et al.
4.7 on Amazon
19 HN comments

Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman, Patrick Egan, et al.
4.6 on Amazon
16 HN comments

The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
Don Norman
4.6 on Amazon
15 HN comments

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
4.8 on Amazon
9 HN comments

The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)
Nassim Nicholas Nicholas Taleb
4.5 on Amazon
8 HN comments

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt and Gildan Media, LLC
4.6 on Amazon
8 HN comments

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Steven Pressfield and Shawn Coyne
4.6 on Amazon
5 HN comments

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Michael Pollan and Penguin Audio
4.7 on Amazon
4 HN comments

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Norman Doidge
4.7 on Amazon
4 HN comments

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell and Hachette Audio
4.4 on Amazon
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Maps of Meaning
Jordan B. Peterson and Random House Audio
4.8 on Amazon
3 HN comments

Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl , William J. Winslade, et al.
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3 HN comments

How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett, Cassandra Campbell, et al.
4.6 on Amazon
3 HN comments

Humankind: A Hopeful History
Rutger Bregman , Erica Moore, et al.
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3 HN comments

Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.8 on Amazon
3 HN comments
fossuseronJuly 12, 2021
For those interested in this kind of thing I’d highly recommend the book The Emperor of All Maladies.
For Herceptin specifically, there was a book called her-2.
GhostVIIonJuly 8, 2021
throw0101aonMay 15, 2021
> The book weaves together Mukherjee's experiences as a hematology/oncology fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital as well as the history of cancer treatment and research.[3][5] Mukherjee gives the history of cancer from its first identification 4,600 years ago by the Egyptian physician Imhotep. The Greeks had no understanding of cells, but they were familiar with hydraulics. Hippocrates thus considered illness to be an imbalance of four cardinal fluids: blood, black bile, yellow bile, phlegm. Galen applied this idea to cancer, believing it to be an imbalance of black bile. In 440 BCE, the Greek historian Herodotus recorded the first breast tumor excision of Atossa, the queen of Persia and the daughter of Cyrus, by a Greek slave named Democedes. The procedure was believed to have been successful temporarily. Galen's theory was later challenged by the work of Andreas Vaselius and Matthew Baille, whose dissections of human bodies failed to reveal black bile.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor_of_All_Maladies
PBS made it into a documentary:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_(film)
* https://www.pbs.org/show/story-cancer-emperor-all-maladies/