The following books represent both an introduction and an insight into Dr. Fishman’s philosophy and practice of health and healing.

ON BODY

• The Science of Yoga – William Broad
• The Story of the Human Body – Daniel Lieberman
• On Immunity: An Innoculation – Eula Biss
• Illness as Metaphor – Susan Sontag
• Somatics – Thomas Hanna
• For Her Own Good – 150 Years of Advice to Women – Barbara Ehrenreich and Diedre English
• So Human an Animal – Rene Dubos
• Consciousness and Healing – Edited by Schlits, Micozzi and Amorok
• Health and Healing – Andrew Weil
• Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America -James Whorton

ON MIND

• The Happiness Hypothesis – Jonathan Haidt
• Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain – Sharon Begley
• This is Your Brain on Music – Daniel Levin
• The Dalai Lama at MIT – edited by Anne Harrington and Arthur Zajonc
• The Female Brain – Louann Brizendine
• Waking The Tiger, Healing Trauma – Peter Levine

ON SPIRIT

• A Brief History of Everything – Ken Wilber
• The Mysticism of Music Sound and Word – Hazrat Inayat Khan
• The Art of Power – Thich Nat Han
• Buddhism Without Beliefs – Stephen Bachelor

 
ON HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY

• Social Transformation of American Medicine – Paul Starr
• The Birth of the Clinic – Michel Foucault
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down – Ann Fadimon
• For Her Own Good – Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
• The Way of the Physician – Jacob Needleman
• The Chair – Galen Cranz

 
ON NUTRITION

• The Disease Delusion – Jeffrey Bland, PhD
• The Blood Sugar Solution – Mark Hyman, MD
• Wheat Belly – William Davis