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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250284891Author Damon TweedyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637632512Author Sarah CartFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Forefront BooksPublisher Forefront BooksWeight(grams) 445g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781991016423Author Joan SkinnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University Press

The inspiring story of a young Mexican immigrant who became a renowned neurosurgeon.   Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer. But not too long ago, he...

A sweeping biography of the visionary behind bone marrow transplantation and the story of the diseases cured by Don Thomas's discovery. In the last half of the twentieth century, Thomas himself discovered a cure for every marrow-based disease—like...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035810024Author Blagomira HalachevaFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 236g

As the first Chinese female scientist to win a Nobel prize (in physiology or medicine) in 2015, what were Tu Youyou's formative experiences and the major events that shaped her life? How did this remarkable woman without a medical degree, doctorate or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894759441Author Sterling HaynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 260g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398490062Author Ismay Grace Bowles GablerFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

A month after her 24th birthday, Lt. Mary Elizabeth Balster collapses among the rubble of a shelled supply room. Has the young nurse finally succumbed to the mounting emotional toll caused from months of caring for the sick and wounded just behind the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143125716Author Christine MontrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608082056Author Donna O'Donnell FigurskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Boutique of Quality BooksPublisher Boutique of Quality BooksWeight(grams) 0g

For over fifty years Dr. Robert Spencer (1889-1969) practiced medicine in the small coal-mining town of Ashland, PA. As the only town doctor, he was known by everyone as a dedicated medical professional who spent long hours at his clinic, charged a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569802465Author Miriam ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Barricade Books IncPublisher Barricade Books IncWeight(grams) 581g

2010 had been a very good year for Bruce H. Kramer. But what began as a floppy foot and leg weakness led to a shattering diagnosis: he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. ALS is a cruel, unrelenting neurodegenerative disease where the body's muscles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501198052Author M D Ricardo NuilaFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480861022Author F a C S Sidney Kaplan M DFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 485g

In turn heartbreaking, irreverent, moving-and at times raucously humorous-one of the nation's leading pediatric researchers recounts his first years as a newly minted, stuggling, and insecure doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. A...

In this eye-opening account of life in the ER, Paul Austin recalls how the daily grind of long, erratic shifts and endless hordes of patients with sad stories sent him down a path of bitterness and cynicism. Gritty, powerful, and ultimately redemptive,...

Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer's advocate Meryl Comer's Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband's battle with Alzheimer's disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call...

In Paper Dollhouse, Dr. Lisa Masterson traces a journey that begins with an unconventional childhood shaped by her larger-than-life mother, who broke away from an abusive husband in Louisiana to find new opportunities for the two of them in the West...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982160319Author M D Farzon A NahviFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 211mm...

When Dr. Paul Garfinkel started his career in psychiatry in the 1970s, psychoanalysis dominated the profession. Then the pendulum swung the other way. Psychoanalysis was discredited and drugs became the treatment of choice for mental illness. Throughout...

Hodgkin's Disease. Most people have heard of it. Yet, very few know Thomas Hodgkin, the man, or the reason the disease was named after him. Dr. Louis Rosenfeld changes that in his searching biography of one of the most significant humanitarians of his...

2010 had been a very good year for Bruce H. Kramer. But what began as a floppy foot and leg weakness led to a shattering diagnosis: he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. ALS is a cruel, unrelenting neurodegenerative disease where the body's muscles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805243321Author Elisha WaldmanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 410g

This biography of one of the most prominent paediatricians of the 20th Century describes his illustrious medical family and his remarkable tenure of nearly three decades as Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and head of...

The alumni of Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S) have made remarkable strides in medicine, academia, public health, and industry. In this they follow in the footsteps of Samuel Bard (1742-1821), a prominent early...

Robert Neil Butler (1927-2010) was a scholar, psychiatrist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who revolutionized the way the world thinks about aging and the elderly. One of the first psychiatrists to engage with older men and women outside of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877578311Author Jenny PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 202g

A Look at a Legacy Faced with potential blindness because of a recurring detached retina, James Moore makes a last attempt to save the sight in his right eye. Hoping for a miracle, he travels from Austin to Memphis to meet with eye specialist, Steve...

Like many new general practitioners in the 1950s, Dr. Anthoy Betts faced few real opportunities under the new British National Health Care system. So, with little more than a suitcase, he and his wife and two babies set off for the U.S.A. Moving to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551957005Author Joseph B. MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint University of Alberta PressPublisher University of Alberta PressWeight(grams)...

The golden era in American surgery, described by a young doctor practicing under innovator Owen Wangensteen at the University of Minnesota In 1960, fresh out of a stint in the Air Force, Henry Buchwald was recruited by Dr. Owen H. Wangensteen to join the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419747991Author David NottFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. AbramsWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *...

In this delightful and often humorous memoir, Nobel Laureate Dr. Baruj Benacerraf discusses the colorful history of his family and how they shaped his values and goals, his marriage to life-partner Annette, and his career in medical research. He reflects...

For over forty years, Dr Marvin Brown served the medical needs of the inhabitants in and around a small town in central New York State - a rural area encompassing some 400 square miles - armed only with his trusty 'black bag' and a generous measure of...

Colourful and often amusing characters that influenced and were in turn influenced by the haemophilic author are revealed in this book exposing a life as other lives but with the addition of the challenge of chronic illness. History, both family and that...

After 25 years of caring for children, first as a nurse, then as a pediatrician, Carolyn Roy-Bornstein finds herself on the other side of the stretcher when her 17-year-old son Neil is hit by a teenage drunk driver while walking his girlfriend Trista...