Jonathan Gleason discusses his essay collection ‘Field Guide to Falling Ill,’ medicine’s history and the role of narrative.

Many books about illness turn sickness into a story. Something happens to the body, and then the body gets diagnosed. The body gets treated and, ideally, the reader is left with closure. “Field Guide ...

The inaugural winner of the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize, this debut collection from Gleason contains enlightening and beautifully written essays on illness and medicine. The title entry recounts his ...

If a person has an "aggressive" prostate cancer with a Gleason score of 9, what does that mean? What's the outlook when it comes to survival rate and prognosis. Every cancer survivor is unique, of ...