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The Traditional Healer's Handbook: Classic Guide to the Medicine of Avicenna by Hakim G. M. Chishti
RRP: £21.00£17.21This comprehensive guide to healing synthesizes the principles and practices of Hippocratic, Chinese, Ayurvedic, and Persian medicine, and includes the first English translation of one of the handbooks of Avicenna, whose writings have been classics in... -
Doctors at War: Life and Death in a Field Hospital by Mark de Rond
RRP: £16.99£13.53Doctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan. Mark de Rond tells of the highs and lows of surgical life in hard-hitting detail, bringing to life a morally ambiguous... -
Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital by Eric Manheimer
RRP: £14.99£12.31Using the plights of twelve very different patients-from dignitaries at the nearby UN, to supermax prisoners at Riker's Island, to illegal immigrants, and Wall Street tycoons-Dr. Eric Manheimer "offers far more than remarkable medical dramas: he blends... -
Between Heaven And Earth by Harriet Beinfield
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345379740Author Harriet BeinfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Yellow Emperor's Classic Of Medicine: A New Translation by Maoshing Ni
RRP: £23.00£14.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570620805Author Maoshing NiFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
RRP: £10.99£7.77#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 Times'Classic, wry, gleeful Bryson...an entertaining and... -
Dr Mary's Monkey by Edward T. Haslam
RRP: £17.95£11.32Get ready for the "Hottest cold case in America!" This updated paperback contains the same content as the 2014 hard cover edition which has 25 additional pages of revelations added since the original 2007 paperback. These new pages include documents from... -
The Song of the Cell: The Story of Life by Siddhartha Mukherjee 9781529111781
RRP: £12.99£9.09**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 lived owes its existence to the cell.'Will leave you in... -
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently by Steve Silberman
RRP: £16.99£11.58Winner 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 developmental condition, a lifelong disability, or a naturally... -
How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS by David France
RRP: £14.99£11.13The riveting, powerful and profoundly moving story of the AIDS epidemic.Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionWinner of The Green Carnation Prize for LGBTQ literatureWinner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT non-fictionShortlisted for the... -
The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE 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 modern era of plastic surgeryFrom the moment the... -
Vital Organs Suzie Edge 9781035404612
RRP: £12.99£8.60...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 brought so vividly to life - The TelegraphIt's an... -
Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium by Lucy Inglis 9781447285762
RRP: £25.00£18.94'Lucy Inglis has done a wonderful job bringing together a wide range of sources to tell the history of the most exciting and dangerous plants in the world. Telling the story of opium tells us much about our faults and foibles as humans - our willingness... -
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks. by Steven Johnson
RRP: £10.99£7.77From the bestselling author of Everything Bad is Good For You, Steven Johnson's The Ghost Map vividly recreates Victorian London to show how huge populations live together, how cities can kill - and how they can save us. Steven Johnson is one of today's... -
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World Laura Spinney 9781784702403
RRP: £10.99£7.77Read the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century's greatest killer - and discover what it can teach us about the current Covid-19 pandemic.'Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story... Pale Rider is not just an excavation but a... -
High Society: Mind-Altering Drugs in History and Culture by Mike Jay 9780500297940
RRP: £12.99£8.60Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery Theodore H. Schwartz 9780593474105
RRP: £25.00£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593474105Author Theodore H. SchwartzFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris
RRP: £10.99£7.77DAILY 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 Wolfson PrizeThe story of a visionary British surgeon whose... -
Medieval Medicine: Its Mysteries and Science Toni Mount 9781445655420
RRP: £10.99£7.25Conjuring 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 hygiene, instant pain relief and effective treatments. In... -
How Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua Mezrich
RRP: £10.99£7.32A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery.Leading transplant surgeon Dr Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, moving organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving... -
Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness Dr. Thomas Cowan, MD 9781603587778
RRP: £18.99£12.75One doctor's surprising answer to the epidemic of chronic disease and essential reading for everyone concerned with the health of the next generation ..[T]he further we move away from nature the sicker we become, and it is our children who pay the... -
Rituals & Myths in Nursing: A Social History by Claire Laurent
RRP: £12.99£9.09Nursing is a complex profession steeped in tradition and history. Tried and tested ways of working have been the mainstay of how and why nurses do what they do. Completing tasks in a certain way because Sister says so describes the custom and practice... -
Dreams From My Mother Dame Elizabeth Anionwu 9781841885223
RRP: £9.99£6.80What 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 journey to becoming a Black health radical. She uses her... -
Old Wives' Tales: The History of Remedies, Charms and Spells by Mary Chamberlain
RRP: £12.99£9.62A compendium of remedies and cures handed down from mother to daughter from the beginning of time, this work presents a challenge to orthodox medicine and a history of female wisdom which goes back to the earliest times. What are old wives' tales? Where... -
Women Healers Through History: Revised and Expanded Edition Elisabeth Brooke 9781911597230
RRP: £16.99£14.61A powerful exploration of women's role as healers through the ages and their continuing fight for recognition. This expanded and updated edition of the classic 1993 title, traces a lineage that spans the centuries in a revisionist history that... -
Ludwik Hirszfeld - The Story of One Life by Marta A. Balinska 9781580464598
RRP: £50.00£48.25An annotated English translation of the autobiography of Polish microbiologist Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954), with a focus on his contributions to international public health. Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954), one of the most prominent serologists of the... -
The Medicine Book: Big Ideas Simple Explained by DK
RRP: £19.99£15.28How 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 modern-day understanding of medicine and helped us protect and... -
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine by Thomas Morris
RRP: £10.99£7.77"Delightfully horrifying."--Popular ScienceOne of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018* A mysterious epidemic of dental explosions... * A teenage boy who got his wick stuck in a candlestick..... -
THE BODY - ILLUSTRATED: A guide for occupants by Bill Bryson 9780857527691
RRP: £30.00£23.35Number 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, gleeful Bryson...an entertaining and absolutely fact-rammed... -
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death by John Kelly
RRP: £10.99£7.25A compelling history of the Black Death that scoured Europe in the mid 14th-century killing twenty-five million people. It was one of the worst human disasters in history. 'The bodies were sparsely covered that the dogs dragged them forth and... -
Vital Organs by Suzie Edge 9781035404582
RRP: £18.99£12.75The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts.Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem. Queen Victoria's armpit led the development of antiseptics.Robert Jenkin's ear started a war.All too often, historical figures feel... -
Medicine: A Magnificently Illustrated History by Nick Taylor Illustration
RRP: £16.99£12.16This visually extraordinary book presents the history of medicine as it has never been seen before... perfect for readers aged 9+.From potions and ointments to modern day bionics, the journey through medicine has been one full of experiments, trials and... -
Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell
RRP: £14.99£10.95A 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 like us, medieval men and women worried about growing... -
Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don’t Exist) by Sarah Chaney 9781788162463
RRP: £10.99£7.12*As heard on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour* *A Blackwell's and Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2022* 'Excellent ... one of those rare pop-science books that make you look at the whole world differently' The Daily Telegraph ***** 'Riveting' Mail... -
The Phytotherapy Desk Reference: 6th Edition by Michael Thomsen
RRP: £29.99£24.83A reliable and popular desk reference for the busy herbalist, with precise descriptions for a total of 233 of the most used herbs in Western Herbal Medicine. Within the pages of this updated and expanded 6th edition, alongside some fascinating new... -
Prognostic. Regimen in Acute Diseases. The Sacred Disease. The Art. Breaths. Law. Decorum. Dentition by Hippocrates 9780674997585
RRP: £24.95£23.39The definitive English edition of the “Father of Medicine.”This is the second volume in the Loeb Classical Library’s complete edition of Hippocrates’ invaluable texts, which provide essential information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and... -
Bellatrix by Simon Turney 9781801108980
RRP: £9.99£7.11Warrior and combat medic of the Twenty Second Legion, Titus Cervianus, must fight the armies of the fabled Warrior Queen in this blistering new Roman adventure from Simon Turney. Egypt, 25 BC. Titus Cervianus is no ordinary soldier. And the Twenty... -
Still Not Safe: Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American Medicine by Robert Wears
RRP: £26.99£23.20The term "patient safety" rose to popularity in the late nineties, as the medical community -- in particular, physicians working in nonmedical and administrative capacities -- sought to raise awareness of the tens of thousands of deaths in the US... -
Doctoring the Mind: Why psychiatric treatments fail by Richard P. Bentall
RRP: £10.99£7.77Why is the Western world's treatment of mental illness so flawed? Who really benefits from psychiatry? And why would a patient in Nigeria have a much greater chance of recovery than one in the UK? In Doctoring the Mind, leading clinical psychologist... -
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
RRP: £12.99£9.09Read this gripping, timely book about the transmission of deadly viruses from animal to human populations, and how we can fight the current Covid-19 pandemic.WITH A NEW AFTERWORD ON CORONAVIRUSAs globalization spreads and as we destroy the ancient...