Book Recommendations ⁽¹⁴⁾

“Be cautious not to unite with sensual forms; once sensual union occurs, misfortune arises.” — From The Sutra of Forty-two Sections Spoken by the Buddha Mr. Zhang Zhongxing said that the most important relationship in the human world is the relationship between the sexes. This…

The Biology of Cancer is a textbook of molecular oncology by Robert A. Weinberg, professor of biology at MIT and member of the US National Academy of Sciences. It is regarded as a classic in the life sciences and is admired by students, teachers, researchers,…

This is the second time I am recommending a book by Siddhartha Mukherjee; the last time I recommended *The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer*, and this time I recommend another of his books, *The Gene: An Intimate History*. Siddhartha Mukherjee is an…

The Fudan-Harvard Medical Anthropology Research Center once carried out a series of studies in medical anthropology and published some valuable works. The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition, by Dr. Arthur Kleinman, is one of them. After reading it I reflected on many…