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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Take your mind outdoors while your body sits in class

If you are starting to feel the daily grind of classes wear you down, try one of these books about either wilderness medicine, international medicine, or traveling to give your mind a reprieve.
Leave any suggestions in the comments....

Doctor on Everest: Emergency Medicine at the Top of the World
by Kenneth Kamler

Or Perish in the Attempt: Wilderness Medicine in the Lewis & Clark Expedition
by David Peck

Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
by Paul Farmer

Mountain Rescue Doctor: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature
by Christopher Van Tilburg

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, the Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracey Kidder

To Build a Fire (short story, available online)
by Jack London

More to come later...

Note: I haven't read all of these yet; I'm just passing on some suggestions.

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