Anonymous wrote:I really liked The Best Minds, which is partly a memoir and partly a discussion of schizophrenia and policy responses to mental illness.

Oh wow, this is perfect. Thank you! OP

Outlive by Peter Attias

I really liked The Best Minds, which is partly a memoir and partly a discussion of schizophrenia and policy responses to mental illness.

A Physical Education, about a woman who takes up weightlifting and finds it helps with her eating disorder.

You might try By the Fire We Carry by Rebecca Nagle. I found her personal story intruded on the rest a bit but overall an excellent book.

People have loved Lab Girl by Hope Jahren. I didn't like it as much as others but it definitely has the research/science angle and I am definitely in the minority of those who thought it was great.

“Don’t sleep there are snakes” by Dan Everett-linguist who lived in remote Amazonian Brazil with a group with minimal contact and a very unusual language

Would Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma fit this? One of the best books I've ever read.

What are your favorite hybrid memoirs? I'm looking at reading a lot in this genre, and thinking of books like Touched by Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison. Or When Breath Becomes Air or The Argonauts. Especially interested in books like that that have a research/science angle.