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As a graduate student, Karen Glumm experienced two grand mal seizures and was placed on medication. After months of reading, Glumm realized she had experienced partial seizures as a child, but had accepted them as a regular fact of life and not a serious...

When Mabel (Chu, Cho-Shin) Tow (1914-1999), one of the first Chinese women to practice medicine in China and the United States, shares her story with us, we may experience "the tender gravity of kindness" (the generative transmission of her lineage)...

An inspiring view of the compassionate side of the medical community through one doctor's essays on courage, friendship, and hope. Doctors Cry, Too is a collection of essays from the heart of physician Frank H. Boehm, M.D. This moving and...

In this expanded edition, an accomplished physician and teacher of medicine discusses the importance of being a caring doctor, especially now that the focus of medicine is increasingly on technological innovation and health care costs.With wisdom and...

In March 2020, COVID-19 overtook the United States, and life changed for America. In a matter of weeks the virus impacted millions, with lockdown measures radically reshaping the lives of even those who did not become infected. Yet despite the fear,...

In 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...

How to Survive Peer Review is a practical handbook designed to help anybody who wants to get their work published in a scientific journal, wants to apply for research funds or who has to undergo formal appraisals at work. It will also help people who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423248033Author Kyra SheahanPage Count 6Imprint Quickstudy Reference GuidesPublisher Barcharts, IncWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 211mm * 3mm

Unlike any existing studies of the medical humanities, The Chief Concern of Medicine brings to the examination of medical practices a thorough---and clearly articulated---exposition of the nature of narrative. The book builds on the work of linguistics,...

An analysis of the 2003 SARS outbreak by physicians involved in the crisis, historians, and policy experts.An analysis of the 2003 SARS outbreak by physicians involved in the crisis, historians, and policy experts.About the AuthorJacalyn Duffin is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884092633Author Preeti R JohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Chaucer Press (imprint of Altschuler, Richard & Associates, Inc)Publisher Altschuler,...

Fascinating, bizarre, and educational true-life medical stories retold in cartoon form by the creator of the bestselling Heart and Brain book series.Mysterious illnesses. Freakish injuries. X-rays revealing something weird that got stuck in your foot...

This comprehensive and practical book covers the basics of grammar as well as the broad brush issues such as writing a grant application and selling to your potential audience. The clear explanations are expanded and lightened with helpful examples and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629370927Author Brian GoldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Triumph Books (IL)Publisher Triumph Books (IL)Weight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 223mm *...

A doctor reflects on his profession and his experience with patients in this brilliant essay collection that expands on his wildly popular Twitter poems.In medicine, every patient presents with a story. "Once upon a time I was well, and then . . . "...

A meditation on in vitro fertilization that expands and complicates the stories we tell about pregnancy. Medical interventions become an exercise in patience, desire, and delirium in this intimate account of bodily transformation and disruption. In...

No Apparent Distress begins with a mistake made by a white medical student that may have hastened the death of a working-class black man who sought care in a student-run clinic. Haunted by this error, the author-herself from a working-class...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937997816Author Joyce Victor Phd RFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Northampton HousePublisher Northampton HouseWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm)...

"Rafael Campo is that rare and exotic hybrid," raved the Boston Globe, "a doctor-poet, with a sensualist point of view that leads him to explore... the eroticism of healing-the laying on of hands." In this "unrelenting effort to humanize the medical...

Critical illness is a fact of life. Even those of us who enjoy decades of good health are touched by it eventually, either in our own lives or in those of our loved ones. And when this happens, we grapple with serious and often confusing choices about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732974807Author Martha NicholsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Talking Writing, Inc.Publisher Talking Writing, Inc.Weight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)...

Teamwork is essential to improving the quality of patient care and reducing medical errors and injuries. But how does teamwork really function? And what are the barriers that sometimes prevent smart, well-intentioned people from building and sustaining...

For years after graduating from medical school, Dr. Clifton K. Meador assumed that symptoms of the body, when obviously not imaginary, indicate a disease of the body - something to be treated with drugs, surgery, or other traditional means. But, over...

In the ever-evolving landscape of medicine, the boundaries between science, technology, and human experience continue to blur, leading us into uncharted territories where the possibilities seem as infinite as the universe itself. Narrative Frontiers:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826514738Author Clifton K. MeadorFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620458129Author Roxanne K YoungFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint WileyPublisher WileyWeight(grams) 626g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999493011Author Dean TweedFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Bellefield PublishingPublisher Bellefield PublishingWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550813296Author Ramona DearingFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Breakwater Books,CanadaPublisher Breakwater Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789368095873Author S Weir MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Double 9 BooksPublisher Double 9 BooksWeight(grams) 104g

Emerging at the margins of science fiction the concept of posthuman has become the most potent and pervasive movement of contemporary culture. From science to ethics, from philosophy to art, from politics to communication, posthuman studies transcend...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788835412199Author Lauren IzquierdoFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print USPublisher Amazon Digital Services LLC -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732882812Author Shahar MadjarFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Shahar MadjarPublisher Shahar MadjarWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039171381Author Stan LubinFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 21mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798822938984Author Arthur LazarusFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Palmetto PublishingPublisher Palmetto PublishingWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218416010Author Sasha YakhkindFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Pager Publications, Inc.Publisher Pager Publications, Inc.Weight(grams) 268g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943536931Author Alexis M ButznerFormat PaperbackPage Count 490Imprint Chemeketa PressPublisher Chemeketa PressWeight(grams) 649g

Seventy Years Young is one of the great Anglo-Irish memoirs. Originally published in 1937, it now appears for the first time in paperback, with an introduction by Trevor West. It tells the remarkable story of Daisy Fingall (nee Burke) of County Galway,...

This major new reader has been put together by Physicians for Social Responsibility in Finland, a member of IPPNW, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1985. Comprising 70 articles, ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578179100Author David H Beyda MDFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Covenant PressPublisher Covenant PressWeight(grams) 322g

These are the trying, true stories of the mobile emergency medical technicians who often are the only thing standing between any one of us and death. Author Pat Ivey uses her extensive firsthand experiences, as well as an unflinching eye for drama and...