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The Myth of Normal

Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

by Gabor Maté MD ...

**The instant New York Times bestsellerBy the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.**In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems ... Read more

$8.99 USD

**The instant New York Times bestsellerBy the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.**In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems
... Read more
Wonder Drug

The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

by Jennifer Vanderbes ...

“A shocking saga of pharmaceutical malpractice . . . Wonder Drug is both a first-rate medical thriller and the searing account of a forgotten American tragedy.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of PainA “fascinating and compassionate” (People) account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told story of its American survivors.Longlisted for the Andrew ... Read more

$9.99 USD

“A shocking saga of pharmaceutical malpractice . . . Wonder Drug is both a first-rate medical thriller and the searing account of a forgotten American tragedy.”—Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of PainA “fascinating and compassionate” (People) account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told story of its American survivors.Longlisted for the Andrew
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No More Tears

The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson

by Gardiner Harris ...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America’s oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies—from an award-winning investigative journalist“A damning portrait.”—Associated Press**“A page-turning drama that raises life-or-death questions about the world’s largest healthcare conglomerate.”—Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of ... Read more

$14.99 USD

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America’s oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies—from an award-winning investigative journalist“A damning portrait.”—Associated Press**“A page-turning drama that raises life-or-death questions about the world’s largest healthcare conglomerate.”—Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of
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Cash Cow

How the maternal body became a global commodity – and the hidden costs for women

by Alev Scott ...

*A Radio 4 Book of the Week*'Captivating, mind-boggling and deeply disturbing' – Maureen Freely'Humane, thoughtful and urgent — this book will make you think, make you laugh, make you cry, but also make you burn with rage' – Dr Mary WellesleyA thought-provoking deep dive into the global fertility industry and the commodification of the maternal body__________Should surrogacy be a... ... Read more

$9.99 USD

*A Radio 4 Book of the Week*'Captivating, mind-boggling and deeply disturbing' – Maureen Freely'Humane, thoughtful and urgent — this book will make you think, make you laugh, make you cry, but also make you burn with rage' – Dr Mary WellesleyA thought-provoking deep dive into the global fertility industry and the commodification of the maternal body__________Should surrogacy be a...
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Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse

by Jennifer Worth ...

The sequel to Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestselling memoir and the basis for the PBS series Call the MidwifeWhen twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Woven into ... Read more

$14.99 USD

The sequel to Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestselling memoir and the basis for the PBS series Call the MidwifeWhen twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Woven into
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Medieval Medicine

by James J. Walsh ...

"Medieval Medicine" is the story of the medical sciences in the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages are usually assumed to begin with the deposition of Romulus Augustulus, 476, and end with the fall of Constantinople, 1453. In this little volume, then, we have to outline the history of human efforts to prevent and treat the ills of mankind for nearly one thousand years. Until recently, it has been the ... Read more

$2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

"Medieval Medicine" is the story of the medical sciences in the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages are usually assumed to begin with the deposition of Romulus Augustulus, 476, and end with the fall of Constantinople, 1453. In this little volume, then, we have to outline the history of human efforts to prevent and treat the ills of mankind for nearly one thousand years. Until recently, it has been the
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Medicare for All

A Citizen's Guide

by Abdul El-Sayed, Micah Johnson ...

A citizen's guide to America's most debated policy-in-waiting There are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as healthcare--and few issues more politically vexing. Every single American will interact with the healthcare system at some point in their lives, and most people will find that interaction less than satisfactory. And yet for every dollar spent in our economy, 18 cents go ... Read more

$12.99 USD

A citizen's guide to America's most debated policy-in-waiting There are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as healthcare--and few issues more politically vexing. Every single American will interact with the healthcare system at some point in their lives, and most people will find that interaction less than satisfactory. And yet for every dollar spent in our economy, 18 cents go
... Read more
Getting Health Economics into Practice

by David Kernick ...

Fifty years ago medicine was straightforward. Doctors had limited therapeutic options and patients did as they were told. Today, an array of medial interventions is putting increasing pressure on limited resources, patients are questioning everything and doctors are uncertain of their role. Health economists hoped to offer important insights to aid decision making, but their technical frameworks ... Read more

$79.99 USD

Fifty years ago medicine was straightforward. Doctors had limited therapeutic options and patients did as they were told. Today, an array of medial interventions is putting increasing pressure on limited resources, patients are questioning everything and doctors are uncertain of their role. Health economists hoped to offer important insights to aid decision making, but their technical frameworks
... Read more
Your Consent Is Not Required

The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships

by Rob Wipond ...

Asylums are supposed to be in the past. However, though the buildings were closed, many of the practices lived on.In fact, more law-abiding Americans today are being involuntarily committed and forcibly treated “for their own good” than at any time in history.In the first work of investigative journalism in decades to give a comprehensive view into contemporary psychiatric incarceration and forced ... Read more

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Asylums are supposed to be in the past. However, though the buildings were closed, many of the practices lived on.In fact, more law-abiding Americans today are being involuntarily committed and forcibly treated “for their own good” than at any time in history.In the first work of investigative journalism in decades to give a comprehensive view into contemporary psychiatric incarceration and forced
... Read more
Food Politics

How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health

by Marion Nestle ...

Series Book 3 - California Studies in Food and Culture
We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing exposé, Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the competition really works and how it affects our health. The abundance of food in the United States--enough calories to meet the needs of every man, woman, and child twice over--has a downside. Our over-efficient ... Read more

$19.99 USD

We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing exposé, Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the competition really works and how it affects our health. The abundance of food in the United States--enough calories to meet the needs of every man, woman, and child twice over--has a downside. Our over-efficient
... Read more
Phantom Plague

How Tuberculosis Shaped History

by Vidya Krishnan ...

**The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its ancient origins to nineteenth-century epidemics to its modern reemergence amongst the global poor“Krishnan is a powerful storyteller, and her accounts of frustration, suffering, grief and resilience are moving.”―Wall Street Journal**It killed novelist George Orwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, and millions of others – rich and poor. Desmond Tutu, ... Read more

$16.99 USD

**The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its ancient origins to nineteenth-century epidemics to its modern reemergence amongst the global poor“Krishnan is a powerful storyteller, and her accounts of frustration, suffering, grief and resilience are moving.”―Wall Street Journal**It killed novelist George Orwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, and millions of others – rich and poor. Desmond Tutu,
... Read more
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine 19/E (Vol.1 & Vol.2) (ebook)

by Dennis L. Kasper, Anthony S. Fauci, Stephen L. Hauser, Dan L. Longo, J. Larry Jameson, Joseph Loscalzo ...

The landmark guide to internal medicine— updated and streamlined for today’s students and cliniciansThe only place you can get ALL the great content found in the two print volumes AND the acclaimed DVD in one convenient resource!Through six decades, no resource has matched the authority, esteemed scholarship, and scientific rigor of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine. Capturing the ... Read more

$171.99 USD

The landmark guide to internal medicine— updated and streamlined for today’s students and cliniciansThe only place you can get ALL the great content found in the two print volumes AND the acclaimed DVD in one convenient resource!Through six decades, no resource has matched the authority, esteemed scholarship, and scientific rigor of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine. Capturing the
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Lab 257

The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory

by Michael C. Carroll ...

$9.99 USD
The Doctor's Future

A Blueprint for Future-Proofing Your Profession and for Healthcare Decision Makers Leading the Evolution of AI/Robotics-Powered Medicine

by Dr. Pietro Emanuele Garbelli ...

The future of healthcare is being written now—will you shape it, or be left behind?The future of medicine is arriving faster than most doctors, healthcare leaders, and policy makers realize. In The Doctor’s Future, visionary acute medicine physician and thriving healthcare strategist, Dr. Pietro Emanuele Garbelli delivers an authoritative roadmap for navigating a healthcare revolution driven by ... Read more

$4.99 USD

The future of healthcare is being written now—will you shape it, or be left behind?The future of medicine is arriving faster than most doctors, healthcare leaders, and policy makers realize. In The Doctor’s Future, visionary acute medicine physician and thriving healthcare strategist, Dr. Pietro Emanuele Garbelli delivers an authoritative roadmap for navigating a healthcare revolution driven by
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The Emperor of All Maladies

A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee ...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence.Now ... Read more

$16.99 USD

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence.Now
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Way Home

Journeys through Homelessness

by Josephine Ensign ...

Can one city's solutions to homelessness help the United States face the issue nationally?The United States grapples with a solution for the unhoused by employing a patchwork of uneven rhetoric and policy. How can policymakers and public health professionals address this urgent problem in more innovative and sustainable ways? In Way Home, Josephine Ensign explores the contemporary landscape of ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Can one city's solutions to homelessness help the United States face the issue nationally?The United States grapples with a solution for the unhoused by employing a patchwork of uneven rhetoric and policy. How can policymakers and public health professionals address this urgent problem in more innovative and sustainable ways? In Way Home, Josephine Ensign explores the contemporary landscape of
... Read more
Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education

Edited by Caragh Brosnan, Bryan S. Turner ...

The Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education provides a contemporary introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and implications of the epistemological, organizational and demographic challenges facing medical education in the twenty-first century.Beginning with reflections on the historical and theoretical foundations of the sociology of medical education, ... Read more

$68.99 USD

The Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education provides a contemporary introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and implications of the epistemological, organizational and demographic challenges facing medical education in the twenty-first century.Beginning with reflections on the historical and theoretical foundations of the sociology of medical education,
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Divide and Conquer

A Comparative History of Medical Specialization

by George Weisz ...

This wide-ranging book is the first to examine one of the most significant and characteristic features of modern medicine - specialization - in historical and comparative context. Based on research in three languages, it traces the origins of modern medical specialization to 1830s Paris and examines its spread to Germany, Britain, and the US, showing how it evolved from an outgrowth of academic ... Read more

$49.49 USD

This wide-ranging book is the first to examine one of the most significant and characteristic features of modern medicine - specialization - in historical and comparative context. Based on research in three languages, it traces the origins of modern medical specialization to 1830s Paris and examines its spread to Germany, Britain, and the US, showing how it evolved from an outgrowth of academic
... Read more
Remembering Smell

A Memoir of Losing--and Discovering--the Primal Sense

by Bonnie Blodgett ...

In November 2005, Bonnie Blodgett was whacked with a nasty cold. After a quick shot of a popular nasal spray up each nostril, the back of her nose was on fire. With that, Blodgett—a professional garden writer devoted to the sensual pleasures of garden and kitchen—was launched on a journey through the senses, the psyche, and the sciences. Her olfactory nerve was destroyed, perhaps forever. She had ... Read more

$16.99 USD

In November 2005, Bonnie Blodgett was whacked with a nasty cold. After a quick shot of a popular nasal spray up each nostril, the back of her nose was on fire. With that, Blodgett—a professional garden writer devoted to the sensual pleasures of garden and kitchen—was launched on a journey through the senses, the psyche, and the sciences. Her olfactory nerve was destroyed, perhaps forever. She had
... Read more
Lightning Flowers

My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life

by Katherine E. Standefer ...

This "utterly spectacular" book weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author's life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such innovation possible (Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises).What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer finds ... Read more

$11.99 USD

This "utterly spectacular" book weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author's life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such innovation possible (Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises).What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer finds
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Time to Heal

American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care

by Kenneth M. Ludmerer, M.D. ...

Already the recipient of extraordinary critical acclaim, this magisterial book provides a landmark account of American medical education in the twentieth century, concluding with a call for the reformation of a system currently handicapped by managed care and by narrow, self-centered professional interests. Kenneth M. Ludmerer describes the evolution of American medical education from 1910, when a ... Read more

$58.99 USD

Already the recipient of extraordinary critical acclaim, this magisterial book provides a landmark account of American medical education in the twentieth century, concluding with a call for the reformation of a system currently handicapped by managed care and by narrow, self-centered professional interests. Kenneth M. Ludmerer describes the evolution of American medical education from 1910, when a
... Read more
I Contain Multitudes

The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

by Ed Yong ...

New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Notable Book of 2016 • NPR Great Read of 2016 • Named a Best Book of 2016 by The Economist, Smithsonian, NPR's Science Friday, MPR, Minnesota Star Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, Times (London)From Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong, a groundbreaking,... ... Read more

$15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Notable Book of 2016 • NPR Great Read of 2016 • Named a Best Book of 2016 by The Economist, Smithsonian, NPR's Science Friday, MPR, Minnesota Star Tribune, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, Times (London)From Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong, a groundbreaking,...
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The Great Starvation Experiment

The Heroic Men Who Starved so That Millions Could Live

by Todd Tucker ...

What does it feel like to starve? To feel your body cry out for nourishment, to think only of food? How many fitful, hungry nights must pass before dreams of home-cooked meals metastasize into nightmares of cannibalism? Why would anyone volunteer to find out?In The Great Starvation Experiment, historian Todd Tucker tells the harrowing story of thirty-six young men who willingly and bravely faced ... Read more

$14.99 USD

What does it feel like to starve? To feel your body cry out for nourishment, to think only of food? How many fitful, hungry nights must pass before dreams of home-cooked meals metastasize into nightmares of cannibalism? Why would anyone volunteer to find out?In The Great Starvation Experiment, historian Todd Tucker tells the harrowing story of thirty-six young men who willingly and bravely faced
... Read more
The Public Health Approach

Population Thinking from the Black Death to COVID-19

by Alfredo Morabia ...

How public health's distinctive way of approaching human health has evolved by trial and error over a series of historic epidemics.The field of public health has developed a distinctive way of approaching human health by focusing on the health of the population to improve the health of the individual. In The Public Health Approach, Dr.Alfredo Morabia narrates the history of this population ... Read more

$28.99 USD

How public health's distinctive way of approaching human health has evolved by trial and error over a series of historic epidemics.The field of public health has developed a distinctive way of approaching human health by focusing on the health of the population to improve the health of the individual. In The Public Health Approach, Dr.Alfredo Morabia narrates the history of this population
... Read more

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