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  • Bodies in Formation

    An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education

    by Rachel Prentice ...
    Series series Experimental futures
    Surgeons employ craft, cunning, and technology to open, observe, and repair patient bodies. In Bodies in Formation, anthropologist Rachel Prentice enters surgical suites increasingly packed with new medical technologies to explore how surgeons are made in the early twenty-first century. Prentice argues that medical students and residents learn through practice, coming to embody unique ways of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Complications

    A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

    by Atul Gawande ...
    2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction“No one writes about medicine as a human subject as well as Atul Gawande. His stories about becoming a surgeon are scary, funny, absorbing....Complications is a uniquely soulful book about the science of mending bodies.” —Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the MoonIn gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Intensive Care

    A Doctor's Journey

    by Danielle Ofri ...
    New York Times WellBlog regular contributor, Danielle Ofri has been praised for turning the triumphs and trials of medicine into riveting and compassionate stories. This e-book exclusive edition offers 98 pages of her best work.This eBook original exhibits Danielle Ofri's range and skill as a storyteller as well as her empathy and astuteness as a doctor. Her vivid prose brings the reader into ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Becoming a Doctor: From Student to Specialist, Doctor-Writers Share Their Experiences

    From Student to Specialist, Doctor-Writers Share Their Experiences

    Edited by Lee Gutkind ...
    “As wise as it is well written. . . . A sustaining work of art.” —Linda Elisabeth Beattie, Courier-JournalIn this inspired anthology, doctors relate true stories from their professional lives, capturing disillusionments and triumphs encountered along the way. Essays by such distinguished writers as Peter D. Kramer, Kay Redfield Jamison, Danielle Ofri, Robert Coles, Lauren Slater, Sandeep Jauhar, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Hidden Lives

    True Stories from People Who Live with Mental Illness

    Edited by Lenore Rowntree, Andrew Boden ...
    A revised and updated edition of a collection of personal essays that illuminate what life is like for those who live with mental illness, and how it impacts their family members.More than 4 million Canadians and 57 million Americans suffer from a diagnosable mental illness, and yet there are still considerable stigmas and a great deal of misunderstanding surrounding even the most common diagnoses ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment

    The William Burroughs Experiment

    by A.J. Lees ...
    A fascinating account by one of the world's leading neurologists of the profound influence of William Burroughs on his medical career. Lees relates how Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and troubled drug addict, inspired him to discover a ground-breaking treatment for Parkinson's Disease. Lees journeys to the Amazonian rainforest in search of cures, and through self-experimentation seeks to find ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Becoming a Doctor

    Reflections by Minnesota Medical Students

    by Therese Zink ...
    Caring for patients is a privilege. Learning how to assist and watch patients as they grapple with the challenges and joys life dishes out is a process. If we are paying attention, we gain insights into our own struggles. Medical students from across Minnesota reflect on their experiences in the anatomy lab and the library, on the hospital wards and in clinic exam rooms. Their musings represent ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Routine Miracles

    Personal Journeys of Patients and Doctors Discovering the Powers of Modern Medicine

    by Conrad Fischer, MD ...
    “This book covers medical advances that would once have been called miracles but have now become routine. The patients’ stories within this book yield hope, optimism, and triumph. This is the best time ever to come out of medical school and training. This fact will inspire and uplift everyone in the medical profession as well as all of us who must, at some point, rely on the art of medicine to see ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Real Life of an Internist

    Edited by M.D. Mark D Tyler-Lloyd ...
    Series series Kaplan Voices: Doctors
    Imagine that you're a young internist, with a waiting room full of sick and anxious people, a man with chest pains in Exam Room 1, a teenager with a mystery ailment in Exam Room 2, and several patients waiting for test results. On top of that, you have to deliver bad news to the woman in Exam Room 3, whose headaches may be something more sinister than you previously thought. Every one of those ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Bedside Manners

    Play and Workbook

    by Suzanne Gordon, Lisa Hayes, Scott Reeves ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    In recent years, there has been growing awareness of the need for interprofessional cooperation in healthcare. Countless studies have shown that genuine teamwork and team intelligence are critical to patient safety. Poor communication among health care personnel is a major factor in hospital errors, even more so than the level of staff competence and experience. This is why many schools for health ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Dancing Mania

    by Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker ...
    The effects of the Black Death had not yet subsided, and the graves of millions of its victims were scarcely closed, when a strange delusion arose in Germany, which took possession of the minds of men, and, in spite of the divinity of our nature, hurried away body and soul into the magic circle of hellish superstition. It was a convulsion which in the most extraordinary manner infuriated the human ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The nurse and the "crazy"

    by LEONARDO MASSI ...
    The essay leads the reader in a colloquial and informal way, but at the same time yet rigorous, through the meanders of the relationship between "normal/crazy". On one side the patient, on the other the nurse; on the background the same social context by which both of them are being evaluated. The analysis of the madness through a social and multidisciplinary view. A light dancing through ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus