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When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
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"With When Death Becomes Life , Joshua Mezrich has performed the perfect core biopsy of transplantation--a clear and compelling account of the grueling daily work, the spell-binding history and the...
Expertise, Authority and Control: The Australian Army Medical Corps in
Expertise, Authority and Control charts the development of Australian military medicine in the First World War in the first major study of the Australian Army Medical Corps in over seventy...
Endell Street: The Women Who Ran Britain's Trailblazing Military
When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering suffragette doctors (and life partners) Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson...
Breaking the Fine Rain of Death: African American Health Issues and a
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In 1996, 42 million Americans had no medical insurance and the rise of managed care organizations (HMOs) in the late 1990s is changing the kind of healthcare other Americans receive....
Genethics: The Ethics of Engineering Life
In this account of the development of human genetics written for non-scientists, the authors describe the story behind the scientific breakthrough and introduce the reader to the scientists who pioneered...
How Isaac Newton Lost His Marbles
After their successful book speculating on What Killed Jane Austen, Dr Jim Leavesley and Dr George Biro turn their attention to How Isaac Newton Lost His Marbles and more medical...
Contagion: Plagues, Pandemics and Cures from the Black Death to
As the outbreak of a new and deadly form of coronavirus dominates headlines and triggers fear and global recession, now is a good time to reflect on the history and...
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine
Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to...
Quiet Killers: The Fall and Rise of Deadly Diseases
With bird flu a very present threat, this is a timely and important look at the impact of quiet killers through the ages. In 1658 Oliver Cromwell, having brought a...
Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium
'Lucy Inglis has done a wonderful job bringing together a wide range of sources to tell the history of the most exciting and dangerous plants in the world. Telling the...
Taking Care: The Story Of Nursing And Its Power To Change Our World
"DiGregorio's storytelling is pitch-perfect; narrative and nursing, she understands, come from the same place and both are concerned with a deep understanding of character and plot....This is a brilliant book,...
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How
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A National Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year from the author of Extra Life "By turns a medical thriller, detective...
Flies in the Ointment: Medical Quacks, Quirks and Oddities
After their successful books What Killed Jane Austen? and How Isaac Newton Lost his Marbles, Dr Leavesley and Dr Biro turn their attention once again to a new collection of...
Audacity to Believe
The moving story of Sheila Cassidy, who as a young doctor went to work in Chile and became caught in the terrible injustice of the country - injustice which led...
The Cult of Youth: Anti-Ageing in Modern Britain
In this major new study, James F. Stark provides the first historical account of the most dominant ideas, practices, and material cultures associated with anti-ageing and rejuvenation in modern Britain....
Medical Blunders: Amazing True Stories of Mad, Bad and Dangerous
This is a collection of stories about medical blunders in the past and in modern life. The stories are of acts of arrogance, ignorance, cruelty and stupidity. They include tales...
Dancing in my Dreams: Confronting the spectre of polio
Acrossmost of the world, an entire generation has lived free from the spectre ofpolio, but for fifty years during the twentieth century that fear wasoverwhelming. Dancing in My Dreams investigatesthe...
Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep
WINNER OF THE 2024 ASJA BOOK AWARD, BIOGRAPHY/HISTORY NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY THE NEW YORKER NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE SELECTION From award-winning journalist Kenneth...
The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish
A timely and critically acclaimed 100-year history of pandemics, by medical historian and viral TED talk presenter - with a new chapter on COVID-19. A Financial Times Best Book of...
The Body: A Guide for Occupants - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER
#1 Sunday Times bestseller in both hardback and paperback, this head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body is as compulsively readable as it is comprehensive. Bryson at...
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can the story of the so-called Spanish Flu teach us about the fight against present day crises, and...
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly
The spellbinding story of a visionary British surgeon who changed medicine forever In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris recreates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when...
The Art of Not Eating: A Doubtful History of Appetite and Desire
A luminously original exploration of the deep roots of diet culture by an award-winning historian'A courageous and beautifully written exploration of a vitally important subject' The Herald'Fascinating' Katherine May'These books...
Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic
WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC RUNICMAN AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'A gloriously intimate tour of the body in antiquity' Gavin Francis'A...
The Anatomists' Library: The Books that Unlocked the Secrets of the
The Anatomists Library is a fascinating chronological collection of the best anatomical books from six centuries, charting the evolution of both medical knowledge and illustrated publishing.There is a rich history...
Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic
WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC RUNICMAN AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'A gloriously intimate tour of the body in antiquity' Gavin Francis'A...
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound
Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. The most surgeons could offer by...
Taking Care: The Story Of Nursing And Its Power To Change Our World
"DiGregorio's storytelling is pitch-perfect; narrative and nursing, she understands, come from the same place and both are concerned with a deep understanding of character and plot....This is a brilliant book,...
Sexual Chemistry: A History of the Contraceptive Pill
Heralded as the catalyst of the sexual revolution and the solution to global overpopulation, the contraceptive pill was one of the twentieth century's most important inventions. It has not only...
Blood and Justice: The 17th Century Parisian Doctor Who Made Blood
In 1667 a Parisian doctor by the name of Jean-Baptiste Denis performed an operation that had never previously been attempted - he transfused blood into another human being. This was...
Casanova's Guide to Medicine: 18th Century Medical Practice
Giacomo Casanova's (1725-1798) reputation as libertine has sadly eclipsed his talents as scholar, linguist, prolific writer and manque doctor. Fortunately for us, he wrote his memoirs at the end of...
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and
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Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"[A] grounded, bracingly intelligent study." --NaturePrizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of...
Guns and Brooches
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Physick to Physiology: Tales from an Oxford Life in Medicine
A murder in Main Quad, a near demise high on Mont Blanc, the lady who survived hanging and became a celebrity, Lord Nuffield's dreadful visits to the dentist, and the...
Fighting Fit: The Wartime Battle for Britain's Health
At the beginning of the Second World War, medical experts predicted epidemics of physical and mental illness on the home front. Rationing would decimate the nation's health, they warned; drugs,...
Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare
'AN ILLUMINATING AND POWERFUL INTERSECTIONAL ANALYSIS OF HEALTH INEQALITIES AND RACISM' - i-D Magazine'A VITAL CALL TO ACTION' - Leah HazardIn the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are all...
Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare
A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOK 2023'Prepare to be blown away' CHIKWE IHEKWEAZU, Assistant Director General at WHO'Important and ambitious' OBSERVERThis...
The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine
The Healthy Jew traces the culturally revealing story of how Moses, the rabbis, and other Jewish thinkers came to be understood as medical authorities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine
The Healthy Jew traces the culturally revealing story of how Moses, the rabbis, and other Jewish thinkers came to be understood as medical authorities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
The Enlightened Mr. Parkinson: The Pioneering Life of a Forgotten English Surgeon
Parkinson's disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 10,000 new cases each year in the UK alone, and yet few know anything about the man the...
Wonder Drug: The Hidden Victims of America's Secret Thalidomide Scandal
Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-FictionThe shocking, never-before-told story of America's thalidomide victims In Germany on Christmas Day 1956 a baby girl was born without ears. She...
Physick to Physiology: Tales from an Oxford Life in Medicine
Author: Keith DorringtonFormat: Hardback, 236mm x 160mm, 640g, 288 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023A murder in Main Quad, a near demise high on Mont Blanc, the lady who...
Genethics: The Ethics of Engineering Life
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Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
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Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare
Author: Dr Annabel Sowemimo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOK 2023 'Prepare to be...
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions
Author: Kate Summerscale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANIACSA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND DAILY MAILA WATERSTONES BEST...
The Inheritor's Powder: A Cautionary Tale of Poison, Betrayal and Greed
Author: Sandra Hempel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In the nineteenth century it was criminally easy to bump off unwanted relatives. A Household Thrown into Chaos Plumstead village, 2...
This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women
Author: Marieke Bigg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A hugely informative and quietly furious call to arms.' IRISH TIMES 'A ground-breaking new book.' EVENING STANDARD 'A must read.' DAILY...