Publications
Books, periodicals, and manuals to help you understand your health. Physical and digital editions are fulfilled by our partner store, Autonomy Books.
First Principles Clinical Reasoning
First Principles Clinical Reasoning is a pattern recognition drill designed to train automatic clinical thinking when faced with undifferentiated presentations. Built on the IF-THINK-Mechanism-DO framework, it transforms how frontline medical professionals approach symptom evaluation—from initial danger recognition through differential reasoning to actionable decisions. 440 pages covering 11 systems and 100+ common symptom presentations, each with physiologic mechanisms, acuity-prioritized differentials, and first-action guidance.
Workplace First Aid Handbook
A structured field reinforcement tool for trained Workplace First Aid Attendants (OFA/AFA) operating in industrial and high-risk environments. Covers ABC prioritization, rapid transport decisions, escalation triggers, pattern-based assessment, reassessment timing, red-flag references, and professional conduct under pressure. 80 pages — built to strengthen organized thinking under pressure, not to replace certification.
Sex, Sexy, and Sexuality
A comprehensive examination of how human identity forms—biologically, psychologically, and culturally—without slogans, shortcuts, or ideological comfort. 440 pages following development from conception across the lifespan, explaining how chromosomes, hormones, brain development, environment, culture, and social pressure interact to produce the wide range of human behaviour and identity seen in the real world.
Balanced Life: For Proper and Effective Weight Management
A no-BS, science-based guide to weight management for real people with real appetites, real schedules, and real stress. Covering why the body clings to fat, cutting calories without giving up the foods you love, fixing the sleep/hydration/stress habits that secretly control your weight, breaking plateaus, and building a lifestyle you don't have to restart every three weeks. 220 pages.
Ganja: The Virgin Drug with a Wild Side
A light-hearted, accessible breakdown of the science behind cannabis for readers with little to no medical or scientific background. Explores the proven benefits, gray areas, and unknowns of cannabis — how it affects the brain, lungs, fetuses, and populations — plus psychosis, cannabis-induced psychosis, dependence, drug interactions, impairment and accidents, pregnancy, and the law. 288 pages.
Breast Health
Breast cancer gets ribbons, awareness months and plenty of attention — but knowing it exists isn't the same as understanding your breasts. The Breast Health Issue of Autonomy Health covers how breasts develop, what hormones do, why cells go rogue, and how genes like BRCA1 and BRCA2 change cancer risk — plus risk factors, family history, screening, mammograms, breast density, biopsies, treatment, reconstruction, nutrition, exercise, emotional health and life after a diagnosis. Written for ordinary people, not medical professionals.
Prostate Health
The prostate does more work for more of a man's life than almost anything else he never thinks about — until something goes wrong. This issue tackles what the prostate actually does, the screening and testing men avoid, how symptoms show up (and get ignored), the sex-and-fertility questions nobody asks their doctor, and the lifestyle factors that quietly move the needle on risk. Fourteen features, one gland, zero clinical dryness.
Autonomy Health Magazine
Autonomy Health Magazine takes one health topic per issue — the kind most people avoid discussing until they're forced to — and breaks it down the way a smart, blunt friend would, not the way a textbook does. Each issue digs into the biology, the risk factors, the screening and treatment options, and the emotional weight that comes with the territory: fact-checked against current medical literature and written for readers with zero medical background. Monthly subscription.