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On Doctoring: New, Revised and Expanded Third Edition

By: N/A

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: August 2010

Seller ID: 429912

ISBN: 1451624123

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Few subjects hold more universal appeal than that of medicine, and surely few books have evoked medicine's drama and magic more powerfully than On Doctoring. In its many forms, from age-old ritual to the cutting edge of modern science, medicine concerns us all. It is a human profession, practiced by people who have dedicated their lives not only to science but also to humanity. In the words of the great physician-writer Sir William Osler, "The physician needs a clear head and a kind heart; his work is arduous and complex, requiring the exercise of the very highest faculties of the mind,...
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Gesundheit!

By: Adams, Patch/Mylander, Maureen

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 269830

ISBN: 089281781X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The inspiring and hilarious story of Patch Adams's quest to bring free health care to the world and to transform the way doctors practice medicine

- Tells the story of Patch Adam's lifetime quest to transform the health care system

- Released as a film from Universal Pictures, starring Robin Williams

Meet Patch Adams, M.D., a social revolutionary who has devoted his career to giving away health care. Adams is the founder of the Gesundheit Institute, a home-based medical practice that has treated more than 15,000 people for free, and that is now building a full-scale hospital that w...
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Bones: The Unity of Form and Function

By: Alexander, R McNeill/Heck, Edw

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 355072

ISBN: 0025836757

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Assembled by a team of scientists and artists, this book looks at the marvels of adaptation through natural selection. It covers the unity of form and function in the vertebrate skeleton - everything from fish to primates including Homo Sapiens.
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Dr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine

By: Aptowicz, Cristin

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 392625

ISBN: 1592409253

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country's most famous museum of medical oddities

Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia, performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools--or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent M tter began his trailblazing career as a plastic surgeon in Philadelphia during the mid-nineteenth century.

Although he died at just forty-eight, M tter was an audacious medical innovator who pioneered the use of ether as ane...
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Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs

By: Avorn, Jerry

Price: $8.00

Publisher: April 2014

Seller ID: 142882

ISBN: 0375414835

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

If you believe that the latest blockbuster medication is worth a premium price over your generic brand, or that doctors have access to all the information they need about a drug's safety and effectiveness each time they write a prescription, Dr. Jerry Avorn has some sobering news. Drawing on more than twenty-five years of patient care, teaching, and research at Harvard Medical School, he shares his firsthand experience of the wide gap in our knowledge of the effectiveness of one medication as compared to another. In Powerful Medicines, he reminds us that every pill we take represents a ...
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Dr James Barry A woman Ahead of Her Time

By: Barry/du Preez, Michael/Dronfi

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 355010

ISBN: 1780748310

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure

By: Bosk, Charles L.

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 409591

ISBN: 0226066800

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

By: Bradley, Elizabeth

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: 363223

ISBN: 1610395484

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Foreword by Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the Institute of Medicine

For decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal extensive research, including a comparative study of health care data from thirty countries, and get to the root of this paradox: We've left out of our tally the most impactful expenditures countries make to improve the health of their populations--investments in social services.

In The American Health Care Paradox<...
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Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History

By: Brown, Jeremy

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 413068

ISBN: 1501181254

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

"Highlights that influenza is still a real and present threat and demonstrates the power and limi
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Taking the Medicine: A Short History of Medicine's Beautiful Idea, and our Difficulty Swallowing It

By: Burch, Druin

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: 405750

ISBN: 0701182784

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Burch's controversial argument is that for most of human history medicine has been a catastrophe, and emphasizes how little and how much has changed, and how we need to make educated choices about the risks we swallow. Only then can the drugs of today and tomorrow save our lives.
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Where Does It Hurt?: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care

By: Bush, Jonathan

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 404022

ISBN: 1591846773

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A bold new remedy for the sprawling and wasteful health care industry.
Where else but the doctor's office do you have to fill out a form on a clipboard? Have you noticed that hospital bills are almost unintelligible, except for the absurdly high dollar amount? Why is it that technology in other industries drives prices down, but in health care it's the reverse? And why, in health care, is the customer so often treated as a mere bystander--and an ignorant one at that?
The same American medical establishment that saves lives and performs wondrous miracles is also a $2.7 trillion i...
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Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death

By: Butler, Katy

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 353444

ISBN: 1451641982

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"A thoroughly researched and compelling mix of personal narrative and hard-nosed reporting that captures just how flawed care at the end of life has become" (Abraham Verghese, The New York Times Book Review).
This bestselling memoir--hailed a "triumph" by The New York Times--ponders the "Good Death" and the forces within medicine that stand in its way.
Award-winning journalist Katy Butler was living thousands of miles from her aging parents when the call came: her beloved seventy-nine-year-old father had suffered a crippling stroke. Katy and her moth...
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A Brief History of the Mind: From Apes to Intellect and Beyond

By: Calvin, William H.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: October 2005

Seller ID: 365638

ISBN: 0195182480

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This book looks back at the simpler versions of mental life in apes, Neanderthals, and our ancestors, back before our burst of creativity started 50,000 years ago. When you can't think about the future in much detail, you are trapped in a here-and-now existence with no "What if?" and "Why me?" William H. Calvin takes stock of what we have now and then explains why we are nearing a crossroads, where mind shifts gears again.
The mind's big bang came long after our brain size stopped enlarging. Calvin suggests that the development of long sentences--what modern children do in their third yea...
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Medicine in America: A Short History (The American Moment)

By: Cassedy, Professor James H.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press: September 1991

Seller ID: 419581

ISBN: 0801842077

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"Well written, with a very useful bibliographical essay and index, this book can be recommended for medical and general readers alike."--Guenter B. Risse, M.D., Ph.D., Journal of the American Medical Association.
"The best brief history of health care in America since Richard H. Shryock's classic survey appeared over thirty years ago."--Ronald L. Numbers, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Birth : The Surprising History of How We Are Born

By: Cassidy, Tina

Price: $6.99

Publisher: October 2009

Seller ID: 45275

ISBN: 0802143245

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Well-researched and engaging . . . Birth is a clever, almost irreverent look at an enduring everyday miracle. (A-)" --Entertainment Weekly
"Wonderful. Packed full of information, a brilliant mixture of ancient wisdom and modern science." --Kate Mosse, author of the New York Times best seller, Labyrinth
"Birth is a power-packed book. . . . A lively, engaging, and often witty read, a quirky, eye-opening account of one of life's most elemental experiences." --The Boston Globe
Published to widespread acclaim, Tina Cassidy's smart, engaging book is the first wo...
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Tripping over the Truth: How the Metabolic Theory of Cancer Is Overturning One of Medicine's Most Entrenched Paradigms

By: Christofferson, Travis

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 389062

ISBN: 1603587292

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

With a new foreword by Dr. Dominic D'Agostino, PhD and epilogue by the author

A masterful synchronization of history and cutting-edge science shines new light on humanity's darkest diagnosis.

In the wake of the Cancer Genome Atlas project's failure to provide a legible roadmap to a cure for cancer, science writer Travis Christofferson illuminates a promising blend of old and new perspectives on the disease. Tripping over the Truth follows the story of cancer's proposed metabolic origin from the vaunted halls of the German scientific golden age to mod...
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Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years

By: Collins, Michael J.

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 412770

ISBN: 0312337787

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

When Michael Collins decides to become a surgeon, he is totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins' success, in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most respected medical centers in the world, the famed Mayo Clinic. But compared to his fellow residents Collins feels inadequate and unprepared. All too soon, the euphoria of beginning his career as an orthopedic resident gives way to the feeling he is a counterfeit, an imposter who has infiltrated a society of brilliant surgeons.
This story of Col...
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Vaccine Nation: America's Changing Relationship with Immunization

By: Conis, Elena

Price: $12.00

Seller ID: 351973

ISBN: 0226923762

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

With employers offering free flu shots and pharmacies expanding into one-stop shops to prevent everything from shingles to tetanus, vaccines are ubiquitous in contemporary life. The past fifty years have witnessed an enormous upsurge in vaccines and immunization in the United States: American children now receive more vaccines than any previous generation, and laws requiring their immunization against a litany of diseases are standard. Yet, while vaccination rates have soared and cases of preventable infections have plummeted, an increasingly vocal cross section of Americans have questioned th...
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Anatomy of an Illness

By: Cousins, Norman

Price: $7.50

Publisher: August 2013

Seller ID: 410078

ISBN: 0393012522

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries

By: Crosby, Molly

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 388639

ISBN: 0425238733

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A fascinating look at a bizarre, forgotten epidemic from the national bestselling author of The American Plague.
In 1918, a world war raged, and a lethal strain of influenza circled the globe. In the midst of all this death, a bizarre disease appeared in Europe. Eventually known as encephalitis lethargica, or sleeping sickness, it spread worldwide, leaving millions dead or locked in institutions. Then, in 1927, it disappeared as suddenly as it arrived.
Asleep, set in 1920s and '30s New York, follows a group of neurologists through hospitals and asylums as they t...
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