Reading About Lung and Respiratory Health: Where to Start
A guide to our Respiratory & Lung Health shelf — twelve anthologies of first-person testimony, from asthma and COPD to sleep apnea, sinus surgery, and lung transplant.
December 31, 2024 · By The Editors, Healing Stories Network · 1 min read
Breath is the one bodily function we notice only when it falters — and once it does, nothing else matters quite as much. The people in these books know that recalibration intimately: the asthmatic who mapped every trigger, the COPD patient budgeting breath like money, the CPAP convert who got mornings back, the transplant recipient breathing with a stranger's gift.
Our Respiratory & Lung Health shelf holds fifty first-person accounts per volume. Here is the shelf, mapped.
The airways
- Breathe Easy: Asthma Management Stories
- Second Wind: COPD Living Stories
- Expanding Horizons: Bronchiectasis Treatment Stories
- Cough Concluded: Chronic Cough Recovery Stories
Sleep and breathing
Nose and sinuses
- Breathing Room: Sinus Surgery Recovery Stories
- Straightened Out: Septoplasty Stories
- Allergy Almanac: Rhinitis Treatment Stories
The serious diagnoses
- Scarred but Standing: Pulmonary Fibrosis Stories
- Clearing the Lungs: Pneumonia Recovery Stories
- New Breath: Lung Transplant Stories
From the Reading Room
Companion pieces include living with asthma, COPD, sleep apnea and CPAP, and lung transplant.
The whole shelf lives in our Respiratory & Lung Health collection.
These books are companion reading, not pulmonary advice. Breathing trouble that is new, worsening, or frightening deserves prompt medical attention.
The Reading Room publishes personal stories and editorial notes from our press. Everything here is companion reading — never medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. For guidance about your own health, please speak with a qualified clinician.