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  • 36 Steps on the Road to Medicare, New Edition

    How Saskatchewan Led the Way

    by C. Stuart Houston, Merle Massie ...
    The co-operative spirit of citizens in twentieth-century Saskatchewan nurtured innovation in health care and health policy. 36 Steps on the Road to Medicare showcases the decisions that led to the province's medicare system - the forerunner of Canadian health care.Stuart Houston and Merle Massie document the range of Saskatchewan leadership on Canadian, North American, and world stages: municipal ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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    The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital

    by Alex Beam ...
    Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution-one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious in America. McLean "alumni" include Olmsted himself, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, James Taylor and Ray Charles, as ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Doctors in Denial

    Why Big Pharma and the Canadian medical profession are too close for comfort

    by Joel Lexchin ...
    Doctors in Denial examines the relationship between the Canadian medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry, and explains how doctors have become dependents of the drug companies instead of champions of patients' health. Big Pharma plays a role in every aspect of doctors' work. These giant, wealthy multinationals influence how medical students are trained and receive information, how ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Dark Remedy

    The Impact Of Thalidomide And Its Revival As A Vital Medicine

    by Trent Stephens, Rock Brynner ...
    In this riveting medical detective story, Trent Stephens and Rock Brynner recount the history of thalidomide, from the epidemic of birth defects in the 1960's to the present day, as scientists work to create and test an alternative drug that captures thalidomide's curative properties without its cruel side effects. A parable about compassion-and the absence of it-Dark Remedy is a gripping account ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dreams and Due Diligence

    Till & McCulloch's Stem Cell Discovery and Legacy

    by Joe Sornberger ...
    In proving the existence of stem cells, Ernest Armstrong McCulloch and James Edgar Till formed the most important partnership in Canadian medical research since Frederick Banting and Charles Best, the discoverers of insulin. Together, Till and McCulloch instructed, influenced, and inspired successive generations of researchers who have used their findings to make huge advances against disease. ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Sexual Chemistry: A History of the Contraceptive Pill

    by Lara V. Marks ...

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  • Diagnosing Giants

    Solving the Medical Mysteries of Thirteen Patients Who Changed the World

    by Philip A. Mackowiak ...
    Could Lincoln have lived? After John Wilkes Booth fired a low-velocity .44 caliber bullet into the back of the president's skull, Lincoln did not perish immediately. Attending doctors cleaned and probed the wound, and actually improved his breathing for a time. Today medical trauma teams help similar victims survive-including Gabby Giffords, whose injury was strikingly like Lincoln's. In ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Good Doctor

    What Patients Want

    by Ron Paterson ...
    Drawing upon real accounts of negligence, incompetence, and distrust, this book seeks to identify the key competencies of a good doctor, the ways in which medical care fails, and the roadblocks to ensuring that every licensed doctor is capable. Arguing that it is possible to improve patient care—by lifting the veils of secrecy and better informing patients, by establishing more effective ways of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Body

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Chris Shilling ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The human body is thought of conventionally as a biological entity, with its longevity, morbidity, size and even appearance determined by genetic factors immune to the influence of society or culture. Since the mid-1980s, however, there has been a rising awareness of how our bodies, and our perception of them, are influenced by the social, cultural and material contexts in which humans live. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Greek Rational Medicine

    Philosophy and Medicine from Alcmaeon to the Alexandrians

    by James Longrigg ...
    The ancient Greek medical thinkers were profoundly influenced by Ionian natural philosophy. This philosophy caused them to adopt a radically new attitude towards disease and healing. James Longrigg shows how their rational attitudes ultimately resulted in levels of sophistication largely unsurpassed until the Renaissance. He examines the important relationship between philosophy and medicine in ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Enlightened Mr. Parkinson

    The Pioneering Life of a Forgotten Surgeon

    by Cherry Lewis ...
    A colorful and absorbing portrait of James Parkinson and the turbulent, intellectually vibrant world of Georgian London.Parkinson’s disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 60,000 new cases each year in the United States alone, yet few know anything about the man the disease is named after. In 1817—two hundred years years ago—James Parkinson (1755–1824) defined this mysterious ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Reinventing Depression

    A History of the Treatment of Depression in Primary Care, 1940-2004

    by Christopher M. Callahan, M.D., German E. Berrios, M.D. ...
    To inform future research, treatment, and policy decisions, this book traces the scientific and social developments that shaped the current treatment model for depression in primary care over the past half century. While new strategies for diagnosing and treating depression have improved millions of people's lives, there is little evidence that the overall societal burden of depression has ... Read more

    $60.29 USD