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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...
The Courage to Care: the Impact of Cancer on the Family
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An Ornament to the City': The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital
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p53: The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code
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The Mould In Dr Florey's Coat: How Penicillin Began the Age of Miracle Cures
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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...
Through A Vet's Eyes: How to care for animals and treat them better
Author: Dr Sean Wensley, FRCVS Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 One of the Financial Times' Best Summer Books of 2022 'A compelling account of the trials, tribulations and triumphs...
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...
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...
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound
Author: Wendy Moore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Surgery was performed without anaesthesia, while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping...
When Did I Begin?: Conception of the Human Individual in History, Philosophy and Science
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Tiger's Eye
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Containing Anxiety in Institutions: Selected Essays, volume 1
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From Cottage to Regional Base Hospital
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Medicine: An Illustrated Story
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Place & Practice - in Canada Nursing History
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A History of Medicine in Papua New Guinea: Vignettes of an Early Period
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The Story of My Father
Author: Sue Miller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 In the spring of 1986, Sue Miller found herself more and more deeply involved in caring for her father as he...
Sixty Years a Nurse
Author: Mary Hazard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 When 18-year-old Mary Hazard touched down in post-war Putney to begin her nurse's training, she could never have known that it...
Bad Science
Author: Ben Goldacre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Shorlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books Guardian columnist Dr...
A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
Author: Perri Klass (New York University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Only one hundred years ago, even in the world's wealthiest nations, children died in great numbers?of diarrhea, diphtheria,...
Plagues and Pandemics: Black Death, Coronaviruses and Other Killer Diseases Throughout History
Author: Douglas Boyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 216 All you need for a plague to go pandemic are population clusters and travellers spreading the bacterial or viral pathogens. Many...
Casanova's Guide to Medicine: 18th Century Medical Practice
Author: Lisetta Lovett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Giacomo Casanova's (1725-1798) reputation as libertine has sadly eclipsed his talents as scholar, linguist, prolific writer and manque doctor. Fortunately for...
Multiple Sclerosis and the Family
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Gas Man
Author: Colin Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 10... 9... 8... 7... 6... That's about as far as you get, counting backwards, as you wait for surgery to begin...
Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19
Author: Alina Chan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus came from...
Life, Death and Biscuits
Author: Anthea Allen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A heart-breaking story of courage and compassion from the front line of the toughest battle our nurses...
Epworth: A Tradition of Care 1920-2010
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The Cure for Good Intentions: A Doctor's Story
Author: Sophie Harrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'When I was twenty-eight I trained as a doctor. Initially everyone was interested. Amazing! people said, when I told them. What...
Travellers to Unimaginable Lands: Dementia, Carers and the Hidden Workings of the Mind
Author: Dasha Kiper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A husband believes his wife is an imposter. A man's sudden, intense Catholic piety provokes his wife. A mother and daughter...
Breathtaking: The UK's human story of Covid
Author: Rachel Clarke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 How does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside, one patient at a time? To bridge the gulf between...
A SERIES OF ENGRAVINGS, Accompanied with Explanations, Which Are Intended to Illustrate the Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body
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Your Child's Health
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The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood
Author: Dhun Sethna Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Inspired by Homer's description of the ebb and flow of the "wine dark sea," the ancient Greeks conceived a back-and-forth movement...
A New Deal for Cancer: Lessons from a 50 Year War
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Author: Abbe R Gluck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 An unprecedented constellation of experts--leading cancer doctors, policymakers, cutting-edge researchers, national advocates, and more--explore the legacy and the shortcomings from...
Every Man
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Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
Author: Nicholas A. Christakis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 APOLLO'S ARROW offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on American society as it unfolded in...
The Secret Life of a Vet: A heartwarming glimpse into the real world of veterinary from TV vet Rory Cowlam
Author: Rory Cowlam Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Honest and heart-warming account of the highs and lows of life as a vet, by lovable TV star Rory Cowlam. Rory...
Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist
Author: Ed Patrick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'Brilliantly funny.' - Matt Lucas 'You have to read this book.' - Tim Harford 'It's funny, touching and gobsmacking in equal...
Professional Burnout in Medicine and the Helping Professions
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Lifespan: Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To
Author: Dr David A. Sinclair Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In this paradigm-shifting book from acclaimed Harvard Medical School doctor and one of TIME magazine's 100 most...
150 Years, 150 Firsts: The People of the Faculty of Medicine
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Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine
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Author: Nicola Twilley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley's Until Proven Safe tracks the idea of quarantine around the globe, through time and space, chasing...
Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine
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What Happened to Freeda Hayes?
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The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great defied a deadly virus
Author: Lucy Ward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A killer disease ... an all-powerful Empress ... an extraordinary encounter ... the astonishing true story. No disease sparked as much...
Super Self-Care: How to Find Lasting Freedom from Addiction, Toxic Relationships and Dysfunctional Lifestyles
Author: Christopher Dines Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Christopher Dines has profound experience of recovery and personal growth; he struggled with drug addiction for most of his young adult...