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The Great Ormond Street Hospital Nurse: The life of a trainee nurse at GOSH in the 1960s by Vanessa Martin
RRP: €10.70€7.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787399105Author Vanessa MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Welbeck Publishing GroupPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group -
Animal and Client Encounters by James Alexander 9781035800445
RRP: €11.89€8.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035800445Author James AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Rife's World of Electromedicine: The Story, the Corruption and the Promise by Barry Lynes 9780976379799
RRP: €17.85€14.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976379799Author Barry LynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Bryan RosnerPublisher Bryan RosnerWeight(grams) 123g -
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks 9781509813698 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€11.26Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy's adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind.Oliver Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped... -
FRONTLINE: Saving Lives in War, Disaster and Disease by Dr Tony Redmond
RRP: €11.89€8.14A heroic doctor's unflinchingly honest and visceral tale of impossible choices in emergency medicine. 'A brilliant insight into the forgotten heroes at the sharp end of humanitarian emergencies.' Jon Snow, Channel 4 News ... -
Cross Everything: A personal journey into the evolution of cancer by Henry Scowcroft
RRP: €22.60€17.62'A moving, compelling and vital book, that sheds much needed light on the very latest understanding of cancer.' - Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies 'A gripping, heartbreaking, accessible personal journey through love and... -
The Children's Nurse: The True Story of a Great Ormond Street Nurse Susan Macqueen 9781409129172
RRP: €10.70€7.60The memoir of a Great Ormond Street nurse.This is the inspirational story of life as a nurse during the 1960s, 70s and 80s, most of which was spent at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. Susan Macqueen was 12 years old when she accompanied her mum... -
Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick
RRP: €15.46€10.47Long Description ILL FEELINGS is a collective biography of medically unexplained illness. Structured around the narrative of their own ill feelings, Alice Hattrick uncovers their and their mother's case histories, and branches out into the records of ill... -
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery by Frank Vertosick
RRP: €15.46€13.84With poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick Jr., MD, describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia, and a minister with a ... -
Death in the Blood: the most shocking scandal in NHS history from the journalist who has followed the story for over two decades by Caroline Wheeler 9781035405244
RRP: €26.18€17.59'This book should rock Whitehall to its foundations.' - Andy Burnham'This is crusading journalism at its best.' - Lord OwenIn the 1970s and 1980s almost 5,000 people in the UK contracted HIV or hepatitis C after being infected by contaminated NHS blood... -
Shakar: an Afghan Woman's Journey: From Refugee to Cancer Pioneer by Shakardokht Jafari 9781785633553
RRP: €11.89€8.71'Fascinating...an enticingly interesting read' - Sayeeda Warsi. Born in rural Afghanistan, Shakardokht Jafari became a refugee aged just six, after a harrowing half-year trek to Iran. There, at twelve, she discovered she had been promised in... -
Nobody's Children: The Recollections of a Nurse in India in the Last Years of the British Raj by Irene Green 9780857068798
€14.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857068798Author Irene GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 408g -
Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon by Jay Jayamohan 9781789293203
RRP: €10.70€7.52'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair, use a scalpel to nick the skin then apply an electro-cautery device to burn down to bone level. It's a slow, precise method and it leaves almost no... -
Close to Where the Heart Gives Out: A Year in the Life of an Orkney Doctor by Dr Malcolm Alexander 9781789290981 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22€3.15'Wind-whipped and salt-stung, Malcolm's account of island life is both grounding and immensely heart-warming. He is to GPs what James Herriot is to vets.' MATT GAW'A fascinating, funny and utterly heart-warming family adventure. Beautifully written and... -
Red Face: How I Learnt to Live With Social Anxiety by Russell Norris
RRP: €11.89€7.87'Empowering and cathartic' - Dr Tracy Cooper, International Consultant on High Sensitivity 'Deeply moving and informative' - Lily Bailey, author As an adolescent, Russell's face and neck would turn crimson at the slightest thing. In his twenties he began... -
A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks 9781529087420
RRP: €13.08€9.70'Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent' - ObserverWhen Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual... -
Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam by Lynda Van Devanter
€29.02Lynda Van Devanter was the girl next door, the cheerleader who went to Catholic schools, enjoyed sports, and got along well with her four sisters and parents. After high school she attended nursing school and then did something that would shatter her... -
Gas Man by Colin Black 9780008484149 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€3.6110... 9... 8... 7... 6... That's about as far as you get, counting backwards, as you wait for surgery to begin - and that's all most people know about what I do. But what happens... -
Handle with Care by Rochelle Bugg
RRP: €10.70€7.64In this heart-breaking, inspirational memoir, Rochelle nurses her beloved mother through a terminal brain tumour. With sensitivity and enormous emotional depth, Handle with Care provides a window into the life of a young carer.When her mum falls... -
The Longest Farewell by Nula Suchet 9781781725184
RRP: €15.46€10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781725184Author Nula SuchetFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 20mm -
The Best of Health: Tales out of Medical School by John A. T. Duncan
RRP: €11.89€8.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398413276Author John A. T. DuncanFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Grown Woman Talk: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Healthy by Sharon Malone 9780593593868
RRP: €35.70€22.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593593868Author Sharon MaloneFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA... -
The Secret Doctor by Dr Max Skittle
RRP: €11.89€8.39Welcome to the life of Dr Max Skittle. Therapist, relationship counsellor, social worker, friend, parent-figure - and, yes: doctor.Join Max - and his patients - as he takes us on a rollercoaster journey through a year in the life of a doctor: from... -
A Nurse's War: A Diary of Heroism and Heartache on the Home Front by Patricia Malcolmson
RRP: €10.70€7.40The remarkable wartime diary of nurse Kathleen Johnstone 'Warm, chatty and endlessly absorbing, this delightful diary brims with intelligence and humour.' Wendy Moore, author of Endell Street: The Women... -
The Time In Between: A memoir of hunger and hope by Nancy Tucker 9781848318304 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.73When Nancy Tucker was eight years old, her class had to write about what they wanted in life. She thought, and thought, and then, though she didn't know why, she wrote: 'I want to be thin.'Over the next twelve years, she developed anorexia nervosa, was... -
Small by Small: Becoming a Doctor in 1990s Nigeria by Ike Anya 9781914518096
RRP: €26.17€18.87As he works his way through his medical training, Ike Anya's grandmother reassures him, 'Everything worthwhile is achieved small by small.' Small by Small charts the triumphs and failures of Ike's student days through to his first demanding year as a... -
Broken: in the Best Possible Way Jenny Lawson 9781529066784
RRP: €17.84€16.26'A new book from Jenny Lawson is always cause for celebration, and Broken is the party of the year . . . I loved it' - Sarah Knight, bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ckHilarious, heart-warming and honest, Broken (in the... -
Time and Tide by Charlie Bird
RRP: €20.22€13.65A poignant and introspective memoir from Irish journalist and broadcaster Charlie Bird. In 2021, Charlie Bird was diagnosed with motor neurone disease - a man whose voice was so synonymous with his career faced losing it completely. Yet... -
This Is It!: The Secret Lives of Dr. Conrad Murray and Michael Jackson by Conrad Murray 9780692741078
RRP: €24.98€17.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692741078Author Conrad MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Bruce Farr Creative PublishingPublisher Bruce Farr Creative PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Nurses of Passchendaele: Tending the Wounded of Ypres Campaigns 1914 - 1918 Christine E. Hallett 9781526702883
RRP: €17.84€13.22The 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 clearing stations, on ambulance trains and barges, and at... -
And How are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks by Lawrence Weschler 9780374236410
RRP: €26.17€19.05The author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for his own new employer, The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings - the... -
The First Survivors of Alzheimer's: How Patients Recovered Life and Hope in Their Own Words by Dale Bredesen
RRP: €21.42€13.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593192429Author Dale BredesenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm)... -
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks 9781529087444
RRP: €13.08€9.70Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy's adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind.Oliver Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped... -
The Magic in the Tin by Paul Ferris
RRP: €20.22€15.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399400107Author Paul FerrisFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLCPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 153g -
The Cure for Good Intentions: A Doctor's Story Sophie Harrison 9781408713006
RRP: €20.22€11.69'When I was twenty-eight I trained as a doctor. Initially everyone was interested. Amazing! people said, when I told them. What made you do that? I couldn't find a short answer. Sometimes I said, "I had a revelation on a beach." It was partly true'The... -
Dorothea's War: A First World War Nurse Tells Her Story by Dorothea Crewdson 9781780224824 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.23In April 1915, Dorothea Crewdson, a newly trained Red Cross nurse, and her best friend Christie, received instructions to leave for Le Tr port in northern France. Filled with excitement at the prospect of her first paid job, Dorothea began writing a... -
Dorothea's War: A First World War Nurse Tells Her Story by Dorothea Crewdson
RRP: €13.08€9.06In April 1915, Dorothea Crewdson, a newly trained Red Cross nurse, and her best friend Christie, received instructions to leave for Le Tr port in northern France. Filled with excitement at the prospect of her first paid job, Dorothea began writing a... -
Before My Time: A Memoir of Love and Fate by Ami McKay
RRP: €16.65€10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction 2020 and Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction Award 2020.Book InformationISBN 9780345809476Author Ami McKayFormat... -
Every Deep-Drawn Breath: an intensive-care doctor's notes on healing by Wes Ely
RRP: €20.22€13.78An intensive-care doctor reveals the long-term problems caused by ICUs, and how these can be prevented. Thousands of people are admitted to intensive-care units (ICUs) every day, and this is only increasing with the Covid-19 pandemic. Most of these... -
Masters of Sex (Media tie-in): The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love by Thomas Maier
RRP: €15.46€10.51Now a New Showtime Original SeriesShowtime's dramatic series Masters of Sex, starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, is based on this real-life story of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Before Sex and the City and ViagraTM, America...