Medical

Dr. Chuck Radis was drawn to a career in medicine after meeting an osteopathic family practice bush pilot in Baja, Mexico. Following an internal medicine residency, the young doctor moved his family to Peaks Island off the coast of Maine and traveled by...

An eminent surgeon, who has written books on the history of medicine and cartography, profiles physicians past and present who have also published works in the humanities. Throughout history doctors have felt the need to express themselves in prose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550227819Author Louis Luping HanFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 583g

Sarah had been dying of cystic fibrosis since the day she was born. The disease quickly ravaged her lungs and little body bit-by-bit. Fragile and frail, she had only weeks to live, when her mum realised the reality of Sarah's situation: transplant laws,...

Hildegard Peplau's 50-year career in nursing left an indelible stamp on the profession of nursing, and on the lives of the mentally ill in this country. She wore many hats -- founder of modern psychiatric nursing, innovative educator, advocate for the...

Hildegard Peplau's 50-year career in nursing left an indelible stamp on the profession of nursing, and on the lives of the mentally ill in this country. She wore many hats - founder of modern psychiatric nursing, innovative educator, advocate for the...

From his time as a Truman appointee on the Health Needs of the Nation to his tenure as Dean of UCLA's School of Public Health, Dr. Lester Breslow has been a force behind the most important public health developments of the last century. With his...

This is a biography of Dr Felicia Wu.Felicia was a scientist with a successful career in cancer research, but what marked the most extraordinary aspect about her life was her journey as a truly brave cancer patient and an incredibly determined cancer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789652296337Author Joe BormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 286g

This is a new account, of how, in the early 1900s, the French-born surgeon Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) set the groundwork for the later success in human organ transplantation, and gained America's first Nobel Prize in 1912. His other contributions were the...

This book chronicles the life and work of the late Arthur Kornberg, one of the premier biochemists in the world, who discovered the enzyme DNA polymerase, a key enzyme required for the biosynthesis of DNA.The book provides readers with a view of the...

This is a biography of Dr Felicia Wu.Felicia was a scientist with a successful career in cancer research, but what marked the most extraordinary aspect about her life was her journey as a truly brave cancer patient and an incredibly determined cancer...

L. Ron Hubbard exposed the brutal truth of a psychiatric chemical onslaught, the likes of which this world has never seen. This, then, is the story of 21st century cultural wastage. Also detailed is Mr. Hubbard s clear and understandable solution to all...

A biography of the author's background which provides insight into his training in medicine and his opinions on the concepts and training that are necessary to be a good doctor. The aims of this book are to first show how coronary angioplasty was...

Between 1941 and 1945 as many as 70,000 inmates died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northwestern Germany. The exact number will never be known. A large number of these deaths were caused by malnutrition and disease, mainly typhus, shortly...

Can there be life after a brainstem stroke? After Dr. Shawn Jennings, a busy family physician, suffered a brainstem stroke on May 13, 1999, he woke from a coma locked inside his body, aware and alert but unable to communicate or move. Once he regained...

A young writer on the cusp of adulthood is faced with cancer that keeps coming back.Doctors used to tell him he was cured. That was a long time ago. Ever since he first left home, writer Jason Jobin has had cancer. Every five years, like clockwork, it...

Take Your Baby and Run is Carol Youngson's first-hand account of the shocking ineptitude and misogynistic behaviour that led to the death of twelve children, primarily infants, under the care of Dr. Jonah Odim at Winnipeg's largest hospital in 1994...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788793060357Author Jens Chr SkouFormat HardbackPage Count 255Imprint U PressPublisher U PressWeight(grams) 340g

God of Sperm tells the remarkable story of Dr. Cappy Miles Rothman, the son of notorious gangster Norman "Roughhouse" Rothman, who went on to become a trailblazer in the field of reproductive medicine. Rothman started the California Cryobank, one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770414679Author Donald R. LaubFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Maimonides, one of the most celebrated rabbis in the history of Judaism, was a prolific author of influential Arabic philosophical and medical treatises as well as two of the most important works on Jewish law. "Medical Aphorisms" is the best-known and...

Dr. Frances Sage Bradley (1862-1949) was a mediating force between the urban world of her own education and experience, and that of rural Americans. As a widow with four young children, Bradley trained as a doctor and became one of the first women to...

This book tells the author’s story of her ten-year journey of recovery and identity transformation from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Dr. Dee is a survivor who regained the ability to articulate what many TBI survivors cannot, and this powerful account,...

This book tells the author’s story of her ten-year journey of recovery and identity transformation from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Dr. Dee is a survivor who regained the ability to articulate what many TBI survivors cannot, and this powerful account,...

Captures the importance of belonging and the need for social connectedness- a key driver for positive adjustment post-injury.Highlights the issues around how people with brain injuries are ‘managed’ in a residential home environment that is predominantly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638299462Author Kay FreemanFormat HardbackPage Count 58Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593230695Author Thomas FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 132g

This important book provides a first-hand account from a university professor who experienced traumatic brain injury. It tells the story of Michael Arthur, who had recently accepted a position as vice principal of a new high school. After only two weeks...

By 1926, it seemed that John R. Brinkley's experimental rejuvenation cure - transplanting goat glands into aging men - had taken the nation by storm. Never mind that "Doc" Brinkley's medical credentials were shaky at best and that he prescribed...

The word Armageddon conjures up images of fear and ultimate cataclysm. The bloody 4,000-year history of the Valley of Armageddon, today known as the Jezreel Valley, reinforces these beliefs. There is, however, another much quieter reality very much alive...

Ita Wegman, born in 1876 to a Dutch family living in Indonesia, first met Rudolf Steiner in Berlin in 1902 when she was 26 years old. She studied medicine at the University of Zurich and in 1917, following Steiner's indications, developed a treatment for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486831725Author Mary SeacoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316042444Author Tom AndrewsFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Little, Brown and CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908684820Author Chris WoodheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint The University of Buckingham PressPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312377014Author Dr Ross DonaldsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307275370Author Pauline W. ChenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 228gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773237619Author Mary T Martin SloopFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945847233Author Bruce BallisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Emerald Lake BooksPublisher Emerald Lake BooksWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061886409Author Brooke DesserichFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 209g