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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 Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
The poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery...
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...
Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain: Beyond the Spectre of the Drunkard
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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...
Intolerant Bodies: A Short History of Autoimmunity
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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...
Progress Notes: One Year in the Future of Medicine
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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 Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine
A startling narrative revealing the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I. The Great War of 1914-1918 burst on...
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...
Healing The Mind: A History of Psychiatry from Antiquity to the Present
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A Short History of Disease: Plagues, Poxes and Civilisations
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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...
A Heavy Reckoning: War, Medicine and Survival in Afghanistan and [...]
What happens when you reach the threshold of life and death - and come back?As long as humans have lived together on the planet, there have been wars, and injured...
Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History
German soldiers termed it Blitzkatarrh, British soldiers called it Flanders Grippe, but globally the pandemic gained the notorious title of 'Spanish Flu'. Nowhere escaped this common enemy: in Britain, 250,000...
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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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...
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions
Author: Kate SummerscaleFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 200g, 256 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANIACSA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES,...
American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
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Author: Kevin Hazzard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. A 9-1-1 call might bring police...
Flowers in Winter: Defeating Cancer - a Westerner's Chinese Journey
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The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever
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Duel Without End: Mankind's Battle with Microbes
Author: Stig S. Froland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 In this panoramic and up-to-date account, we learn how the Black Death, smallpox, the Spanish flu and other great epidemics...
How to Be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness
Author: Katherine D. Van Schaik Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The second-century Greek physician Galen - the most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocrates - is a central figure...
How to Make a Killing: Death, Dollars and the Business of Blood
Author: Tom Mueller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Six decades ago, researchers achieved the impossible: developing a treatment that transformed kidney failure from a death sentence to a manageable...
Something Out of Place: Women & Disgust
Author: Eimear McBride Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'A fearless, interrogative work ... A fierce and fascinating manifesto in McBride's persuasive prose' - Sinead Gleeson Here, Eimear McBride unpicks...
Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History
Author: Peter Furtado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Humanity has always been struck by pestilence and pandemics, from the plagues of ancient Egypt to the pox that ravaged Europe...