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Booklist

Click on a book title below to learn more about each title; some books have been reviewed by Common Good staff.

Books by CG Chair Philip K. Howard
Read The Collapse of the Common Good: How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines our Freedom, by CG Chair Philip K. Howard. Also check out his national bestseller, The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America.

Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer, Shannon Brownlee
(Bloomsbury USA, September 2007)

Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes, Robert Wachter and Kaveh Shojania
(Rugged Land, February 2004)

The Brave New World of Health Care, Richard D. Lamm
(Fulcrum, August 2003)

Wall of Silence: The Untold Story of the Medical Mistakes that Kill and Injure Millions of Americans, Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh
(Lifeline, May 2003)

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, Atul Gawande
(Picador, April 2003)

The Silent World of Doctor and Patient, Jay Katz
(Johns Hopkins, June 2002)

Cases on Medical Malpractice in Comparative Perspective, Tort and Insurance Law Vol. 1, Edited by Michael Faure and Helmut Koziol
(Spinger-Verlag/Wien, December 2001)

Our Hands Are Tied: Legal Tensions and Medical Ethics, Marshall Kapp
(Auburn House, May 1998)

Medical Malpractice on Trial, Paul C. Weiler
(Harvard, April 1991)