My Nerdy Cancer Reading List

So here is my reading list. A work in progress. I had polished off a few of these books before starting this blog, and will post on them in the order in which I read them. And if it seems like I am not the fastest reader... well, two things: a) I hope that keeping this blog motivates me to be a little more productive, and b) reading about cancer is an intense experience for me, so I intersperse these cancer books with lighter pleasure reading. So there!

Will update this list as I read and inevitably acquire more books (I am a big nerd, after all)...

Bibliography	Date started	Date completed
Wishart, Adam, One in Three (Grove Press, 2007)	15 February 2008	19 February 2008
Clinton, Bill, Giving (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007)	December 2007	26 February 2008
Olson, James S., Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer & History (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002)	27 February 2008	14 March 2008
Davis, Devra, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Basic Books, 2007)	10 April 2008
Patterson, James T., The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture (Harvard University Press, 1989)
Weinberg, Robert A., One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins (Basic Books, 1998)
Kedrowski, Karen M. and Marilyn Stine Sarow, Cancer Activism: Gender, Media, and Public Policy (University of Illinois Press, 2007)
Greaves, Mel, Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy (Oxford University Press, 2000)
Pochapin, Mark Bennett, M.D., What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Colorectal Cancer (Warner Books, 2004)
Pesmen, Curtis, The Colon Cancer Survivors' Guide: Living Stronger, Longer (Tatra Press LLC, 2005)
Lendrum, Susan and Gabrielle Syme, Gift of Tears: A Practical Approach to Loss and Bereavement Counselling (Routledge, 2004)
Nettleton, Sarah, The Sociology of Health and Illness (Polity Press, 2006)
Lyss, Alan P., MD; Humberto M. Fagundes, MD; Patricia Corrigan, Chemotherapy & Radiation for Dummies (Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2005)	Ongoing - reference
Sarg, Michael J., MD and Gross, Ann D., MA, The Cancer Dictionary, Third Edition (Checkmark Books, 2007)	Ongoing - reference