📚 Patients

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The received side of care: how it feels to be sick in a system, and what the records and rights say about it.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject patients in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
The 36-hour day	Nancy L. Mace	1981	38
When Breath Becomes Air	Paul Kalanithi	2016	35
The journal of a disappointed man	W. N. P. Barbellion	1919	33
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	2009	25
The minds of Billy Milligan	Daniel Keyes	1981	20
Wasted	Marya Hornbacher	1998	19
The plague and I.	Betty MacDonald	1948	15
It's Not About the Bike	Lance Armstrong	1999	12
Look Me in the Eye	John Elder Robison	2007	12
Modern nature	Derek Jarman	1991	10
Life in rewind	Terry Weible Murphy	2009	10
When rabbit howls	Truddi Chase	1987	9
Grace and grit	Ken Wilber	1991	9
Close to the Knives	David Wojnarowicz	1991	9
Scaphandre et le papillon	Jean-Dominique Bauby	1997	9
A change of heart	Claire Sylvia	1997	9
Dying to Be Me	Anita Moorjani	2012	9
It Happened to Nancy	Beatrice Sparks	1994	7
All of me	Kim Noble	2011	7
Thinking in Pictures	Temple Grandin	1995	6
Get Me Out of Here	Rachel Reiland	2004	6
Sickened	Julie Gregory	2004	6
The Brain That Changes Itself	Norman Doidge	2007	5
Brave girl eating	Harriet Brown	2010	5
Bed number ten	Sue Baier	1986	4
Sybil	Flora Rheta Schreiber	1974	3
Starving for attention	Cherry Boone O'Neill	1982	3
Swallow right	Roberta B. Pierce	1993	3
The Last Lecture	Randy Pausch	2008	3
I'm Eve	Chris Costner Sizemore	1977	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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