Books on Medical Issues

Browse reviews of parenting books on medical issues from the Harried Parent's Book Club.

Books on medical issues and other more general books in the Harried Parent's Book Club have information for parents of children with special health needs. Read some excerpts to see what they have to offer.

A look at a notebook-and-portfolio set made for keeping track of all your child's medical paperwork and records.

Advice for parents on continuing a pregnancy even though their baby may die before or shortly after birth.

Review of a book that offers Q&As for teens living with chronic illness and disability.

A review of a comprehensive patient and family guide on epilepsy, now in its third edition.

Those advocating euthanasia promote it as a way to help someone who no longer wishes to live find release -- but does that help ever come in the form of a push? Wesley Smith presents disturbing evidence that what may start out as a humanitarian impulse can quickly turn into survival of the fittest.

A neuropsychologist specializing in traumatic brain injury offers families a detailed description of injury, recovery, and rehabilitation.

Review of a book that offers a guided journal for noting the details of your child's medical treatments, and examples of questions to ask along the way.

Essays by doctors, researchers and parents explain the ways in which the health-care system works for children with special health care needs, and the ways in which it falls short.

A helpful handbook for parents of children with medical disabilities applies the Love and Logic behavior management approach to issues such as taking medication and following through on treatments.

Review of book that offers parents 25 steps to dealing with news of a child's serious illness through coping with the death of a child.

The friendliest pediatrician you'll ever meet leads you through the ins and outs of basic child care, and a few not-so-basic topics as well.

The former director of the Mayo Clinic's Pediatric ICU shares stories about critically ill children to advise parents on what to expect when a health crisis occurs.

Parents and family members of children with chronic or terminal illnesses need special support, advice and direction. These books can help.

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