Stanford Medicine student Grace Li shares her passions inside and outside of medicine -- including a new book she's written.
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A Q&A with Daniel Mason: Combining psychiatry and writing
Daniel Mason, Stanford psychiatrist and award-winning novelist speaks on his passion for literature and medicine.
Neuroscientist’s book traverses the extremes of human behavior
Stanford bioengineer, neuroscientist and psychiatrist Karl Deisseroth has written a new book -- and it’s not a ‘science book.’
Disease detective tells stories of mystery diseases in new book
Euan Ashley, professor of medicine and genetics, tells the stories of his patients with rare or mystery diseases through his new book, The Genome Odyssey.
I wrote a book about a scientist’s journey to save his desperately ill son
Stanford Medicine science writer Tracie White shares the origins of her new book that explores ME/CFS, family bonds, science, suffering, and much more.
When your mother is a neurosurgeon: ‘It motivates me to push myself’
Reece and Alister Sharp, daughters of Stanford neurosurgeon Odette Harris, co-authored a children's book to share their experience.
Social distancing through the eyes of a toddler
Stanford physician Benjamin Lindquist wrote a children's book to help explain social distancing to his 2-year-old daughter Kiley.
What if George Washington was shot during the Revolutionary War? Obstetrician writes an alternate history novel
History buff and Stanford obstetrician Ronald Gibbs wrote a novel in which George Washington is shot in the chest early in the Revolutionary War.
My mommy is a doctor: A children’s book (and love story)
Moises Gallegos, a Stanford emergency medicine physician, wrote a children's book for his son to celebrate his wife, a physician-mother.
A medical student’s reading list
Former and current Stanford medical students recommends several nonfiction books — as well as authors —that present science through a humanistic lens.
Our best reads of 2019: Stanford Medicine picks
Looking for a good biomedical or science read? Stanford Medicine leaders and science communicators suggest some of their favorites.
Searching for place — A physician’s first short story collection
Stanford obstetrician Yasser El-Sayed has published a collection of short stories exploring themes of home, identity and cultural dislocation.
Cystic fibrosis took Mallory Smith’s life, but her memoir lives on
Mallory Smith's memoir chronicles her life with cystic fibrosis. Christy Hartman knew Mallory, and attended a campus event celebrating Mallory's book.
Directing the gaze: A discussion of writing, psychiatry and criminal justice
Author and psychiatrist Christine Montross discussed her work and read excerpts from her books at a recent event at Stanford.
Inheritance: On family secrets, genetics and ethics
With a DNA test, Dani Shapiro discovered that the man she had thought was her father was not. She discussed the finding, and her writing, on campus.
The autobiography of neuroscientist Ben Barres, an excerpt
The fall issue of Stanford Medicine magazine features an excerpt from Ben Barres' autobiography, which describes his transition from female to male.