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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.37DAILY MAIL, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017Winner of the 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science WritingShortlisted for the 2018 Wellcome Book PrizeShortlisted for the 2018... -
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.81#1 Bestseller in both hardback and paperback: SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE _______'A directory of wonders.' - The Guardian'Jaw-dropping.' - The... -
Between Heaven And Earth by Harriet Beinfield
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345379740Author Harriet BeinfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint -
The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERBest Books of the Year, GuardianThe poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in... -
The Smile Stealers: The Fine and Foul Art of Dentistry by Richard Barnett
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.36This achingly jawdropping book follows the evolution of dentistry throughout the world from the Bronze Age to the present day, presenting captivating and grim illustrations of the tools and... -
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently by Steve Silberman
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $13.12Winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-FictionShortlisted for the Wellcome Book PrizeA Sunday Times and New York Times bestsellerForeword by Oliver SacksWhat is autism: a devastating... -
Yellow Emperor's Classic Of Medicine: A New Translation by Maoshing Ni
RRP: $30.82Booksplease Price: $21.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570620805Author Maoshing NiFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
Tripping Over the Truth: How the Metabolic Theory of Cancer Is Overturning One of Medicine's Most Entrenched Paradigms by Travis Christofferson
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.83A masterful synchronization of history and cutting-edge science shines new light on humanity's darkest diagnosis. Over 50,000 copies sold! "Tripping over the Truth will have profound... -
The NHS: Britain's National Health Service, 1948–2020 by Susan Cohen
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.57A beautifully illustrated history of Britain's most revered and valued institution: the NHS. In March 2020 the UK went into lockdown to help contain the spread of COVID-19 and protect the NHS... -
Woman As Healer by Jeanne Achterberg 9781846044090
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71This ground-breaking work examines the role of woman as healer from prehistoric times to the present day. Award-winning scientist Jeanne Achterberg considers ancient cultures in which the chief diety... -
The Black Death: The Intimate Story of a Village in Crisis 1345-50 John Hatcher 9780753823071
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41How the people of a typical English village lived and died in the worst epidemic in history.The Black Death remains the greatest disaster to befall humanity, killing about half the population of the... -
Dreams From My Mother Dame Elizabeth Anionwu 9781841885223
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75What a page turner of a book! Dame Elizabeth uncovers the layers of her life from a childhood defined by secrets, to discovering the identity of her father, to her political awakening, and her... -
THE BODY - ILLUSTRATED: A guide for occupants by Bill Bryson 9780857527691
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $33.61Number One Bestseller in both hardback and paperbackThe Sunday Times Book of the YearThe ideal gift for everybody_______'A directory of wonders.' Guardian'Jaw-dropping.' The Times'Classic, wry,... -
The Song of the Cell: The Story of Life by Siddhartha Mukherjee 9781529111781
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2023**A NEW YORK TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST, MAIL ON SUNDAY and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARFrom the dawn of life itself, every being that has ever... -
A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria by Caroline Crampton 9781783789054
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $14.73A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK A fascinating and revelatory cultural history of hypochondria, from Hippocrates to wellness influencers "There is a twilight zone between illness and health, and... -
Vital Organs Suzie Edge 9781035404612
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41...a bracing adventure, and one where our ancestors are not reduced to characters of myth and legend, but real people of flesh and blood. It is through this most intimate dissection that the past is... -
HIV & AIDS: A Very Short Introduction by Alan Whiteside
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.72In 2008 it was believed that HIV/AIDS was without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death. The first case was identified in 1981; by 2004 it was estimated that about 40... -
Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane by James Delbourgo
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.66Hans Sloane was the greatest collector of his time, and one of the greatest of all time. His name is familiar today through the London streets and squares named after him, but the man himself, and... -
Dioscorides on Pharmacy and Medicine by John M. Riddle 9780292729841
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $29.02For 1,600 years Dioscorides (ca. AD 40-80) was regarded as the foremost authority on drugs. He knew mild laxatives and strong purgatives, analgesics for headaches, antiseptics for wounds, emetics to... -
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
RRP: $25.46Booksplease Price: $16.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780767929714Author Candice Millard -
Hysteria: The disturbing history by Andrew Scull
RRP: $16.74Booksplease Price: $12.05The nineteenth century seems to have been full of hysterical women - or so they were diagnosed. Where are they now? The very disease no longer exists. In this fascinating account, Andrew Scull tells... -
The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield’s war on vaccines by Brian Deer 9781917189057
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A reporter uncovers the secrets behind the scientific scam of the century. The news breaks first as a tale of fear and pity. Doctors at a London hospital claim a link between autism and a vaccine... -
Madness: A Brief History Roy Porter (, Former Professor of the Social History of Medicine, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London) 9780192802675
RRP: $19.42Booksplease Price: $13.39This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day. Roy Porter explores what we really... -
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. 260hington
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $16.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767915472Author Harriet A. WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528 -
The Roses of No Man's Land by Lyn Macdonald
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE BBC DRAMA THE CRIMSON FIELD'On the face of it,' writes Lyn Macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight... -
The Puzzle People: Memoirs of a Transplant Surgeon by Thomas E. Starzl 9780822958369
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $34.69Given the tensions and demands of medicine, highly successful physicians and surgeons rarely achieve equal success as prose writers. It is truly extraordinary that a major, international pioneer in... -
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M Barry
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history' Bill Gates'Easily our fullest, richest, most panoramic history of the subject' New... -
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine by Thomas Hager 9781419735226
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.58Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher's genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome... -
Medieval Medicine: Its Mysteries and Science Toni Mount 9781445655420
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56Conjuring up a time when butchers and executioners knew more about anatomy than university-trained physicians, the phrase 'medieval medicine' sounds horrific to those of us with modern ideas on... -
The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play by James C. Whorton
RRP: $22.10Booksplease Price: $17.63Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from... -
The Sick Rose: Or; Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration by Richard Barnett
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.66The Sick Rose is a beautifully gruesome and strangely fascinating visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography. This stunning volume, combining detailed illustrations of afflicted... -
ClearRevise Edexcel GCSE History 1HI0 Medicine in Britain PG Online 9781910523445
Booksplease Price: $10.34Clear Revise illustrated revision and practice for Edexcel GCSE History. Absolute clarity is the aim with a new generation of GCSE History revision guides. This clear study guide has been expertly... -
The Medicine Book: Big Ideas Simple Explained by DK
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.49How are illnesses diagnosed? What is cancer? Why are some pandemics so deadly? This book explores big questions like these, explaining the breakthroughs and discoveries that have shaped our... -
Hippocratic Writings by Hippocrates
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the philosophy of being a... -
The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers by Joanna Bourke
RRP: $18.08Booksplease Price: $14.73Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other... -
The Vaccine Race: How Scientists Used Human Cells to Combat Killer Viruses Meredith Wadman 9781784160135
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $11.86**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE****A GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR**'Riveting ... invites comparison to Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'NatureThe epic and... -
Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A triumph' Guardian 'Glorious ... makes the past at once familiar, exotic and thrilling.' Dominic Sandbrook 'A brilliant book' Mail on Sunday Just... -
Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best Loved Institution by Andrew Seaton 9780300276527
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.78“Sharp and compelling”—Sarah Neville, Financial Times “Insightful”—Rafael Behr, The Guardian An engaging, inclusive history of the NHS, exploring its surprising survival—and the people who have kept... -
Nurses of Passchendaele: Tending the Wounded of Ypres Campaigns 1914 - 1918 Christine E. Hallett 9781526702883
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79The Ypres Salient saw some of the bitterest fighting of the First World War. The once-fertile fields of Flanders were turned into a quagmire through which men fought for four years. In casualty... -
The Smile Revolution: In Eighteenth-Century Paris by Colin A. Jones
RRP: $23.44Booksplease Price: $14.66You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different...