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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...
Human Machine
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Kill or Cure? Lotions, Potions Characters and Quacks of Early Australia
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Author: Peter J. PhillipsBinding: HardbackPublished: Rigby, 1978Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the history of medicine in early Australia, detailing the various remedies, characters, and quacks...
How to Do It Second Edition
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Author: Stephen LockBinding: SoftbackPublished: British Medical Association, 1985Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner-
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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Look What You Started Henry!
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Author: Leon Stubbingsbinding: SoftbackPublished: Australian Red Cross, 1992Condition: book: Good, jacket: No dust jacket, page: Good, markings: Signed with inscriptionA history of the Australian Red Cross Society from 1914 to...
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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An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love
Author: Kate Mosse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'Inspiring' - GUARDIAN 'Heartbreaking' - INDEPENDENT 'Beautiful' - MATT HAIG A Best Book for Summer in The Times, Guardian and The...
The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever
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Dark Winter: An insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity
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Hydrophthalmia or, Congenital Glaucoma
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The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy
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The Doctor Who Fooled the World
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A Profession's Pathway: Nursing at St Vincent's Since 1893
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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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My Age of Anxiety
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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...
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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The Killer Bean of Calabar and Other Stories: Poisons and poisoners
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Angels of Death: Exploring the Euthanasia Underground
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A History of Medicine in Papua New Guinea: Vignettes of an Early Period
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George III and the Mad-business
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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,...
Crossing into Medicine Country: A Journey in Native American Healing
Author: David Carson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Here is David Carson's personal story of his initiation into the healing rites of the Choctaw with medicine woman Mary Gardener....
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...
What Your Doctor Doesn't Know about Nutritional Medicine May be Killing You
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Sex-Life Solutions: Easy Ways to Solve Everyday Sexual Problems
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Haunted Memories: Healing the Pain of Childhood Abuse
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Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story
Author: Jeremy Farrar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The Coronavirus pandemic has devastated lives and livelihoods around the world - and continues to do so. These personal tragedies will,...
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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