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One Doctor: Close Calls, Cold Cases, and the Mysteries of Medicine by Brendan Reilly 9781476726359
RRP: €23.80€16.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476726359Author Brendan ReillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 28mm -
Faster Cures: Accelerating the Future of Health by Michael Milken
RRP: €29.75€19.55Partly a memoir and partly a recent history of medicine, the definitive account of Michael Milken's lifetime work to accelerate medicine's evolution from a dark past to a bright future.What if cleaning early-stage cancers from your body could become as... -
Mindfulness as Medicine: A Story of Healing Body and Spirit Sister Dang Nghiem 9781937006945
RRP: €20.22€12.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937006945Author Sister Dang NghiemFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax PressWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 227mm *... -
Paranoia: A Journey Into Extreme Mistrust and Anxiety by Daniel Freeman 9780008472580
RRP: €29.75€19.55'A TRULY IMPORTANT BOOK' JOHN HUMPHRYS 'FASCINATING... SHOCKING' SPECTATOR What is paranoia? What makes us anxious? How can this be overcome? ... -
Believe Me: My Battle with the Invisible Disability of Lyme Disease by Yolanda Hadid
RRP: €16.65€13.03In this moving, behind-the-scenes memoir, Yolanda opens up in a way she has never been able to in the media. Struck by an illness more epidemic than people know and more debilitating than anyone realizes, Yolanda had to fight with everything she had to... -
Waiting for the Monsoon by Rod Nordland 9780063096226
RRP: €26.18€18.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063096226Author Rod NordlandFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 644g -
The Cancer Cure That Worked: 50 Years of Suppression by Barry Lynes 9780982513866
RRP: €17.85€13.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982513866Author Barry LynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Biomed Publishing GroupPublisher Biomed Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 210g -
That One Patient: Doctors and Nurses' Stories of the Patients Who Changed Their Lives Forever by Ellen de Visser
RRP: €11.89€8.14THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH DR ANTHONY FAUCI, DAME SALLY DAVIES AND DR JIM DOWN For every doctor there is that one patient, whose story touches them in a way they didn't... -
How to Treat People: A Nurse at Work by Molly Case
RRP: €11.89€8.71'A hymn to the art and science of nursing itself' Guardian The hand of a stranger offered in solace. A flower placed on a dead body as a mark of respect. It is these moments of empathy that define us as people. Nobody knows this better than a nurse. In... -
If This Is A Man/The Truce (50th Anniversary Edition): Surviving Auschwitz by Primo Levi
RRP: €15.46€5.81A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't Count'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist... -
Freud for Beginners by Appignanesi Richard 9780375714603
RRP: €21.42€15.57Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A History of Women in Medicine: Cunning Women, Physicians, Witches by Sinead Spearing 9781526751690
RRP: €15.46€10.94Witch' is a powerful word with humble origins. Once used to describe an ancient British tribe known for its unique class of female physicians and priestesses, it grew into something grotesque, diabolical and dangerous. A History of Women in Medicine:... -
The Midwife's Sister: The Story of Call The Midwife's Jennifer Worth by her sister Christine by Christine Lee 9781447282648
€20.38'Our childhood came to an end when our parents parted and from then on Jennifer was placed in the impossible position of having to be a parent to me, her sister. I shall always be grateful for her protection . . .'Millions have fallen in love with... -
Look No Hands!: The Inspiring Story of Brian Gault by Helena Rogers
RRP: €13.08€9.06Brian Gault is one of the 450 survivors of the 'miracle-drug' Thalidomide's exposure to the British market in the mid-twentieth century. To the shock of his parents, he was born with no arms.Otherwise physically and mentally fit and able, Brian has... -
A Short History of Falling: Everything I Observed About Love Whilst Dying by Joe Hammond
RRP: €15.46€10.01A Short History of Falling - like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and When Breath Becomes Air - is a searingly beautiful, profound and unforgettable memoir that finds light and even humour in the darkest of places. ... -
Mind on Fire: Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019 by Arnold Thomas Fanning
RRP: €13.08€9.51Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019'[A] painfully intense, courageous and gripping account of [Fanning's] journey to the underworld of madness and back. This is a brave and instructive book.' Irish Times'Extraordinary. An account of mental... -
An Extra Pair of Hands by Kate Mosse
RRP: €15.46€14.59'Inspiring' GUARDIAN 'Heartbreaking' INDEPENDENT 'I loved it' ADAM KAY 'Beautiful' MATT HAIG 'Luminous' NICCI GERRARD 'Essential reading' MADELEINE BUNTING 'A celebration' CHRISTIE WATSON ----- A Best Book for Summer 2021 in the Times,... -
Please, Nurse!: A Student Nurse in the 1950s by Joan Lock 9781409128137 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70€2.49Joan Lock's warm and nostalgic account of her three years of training as a young student nurse in the early 1950s. Perfect for fans of CALL THE MIDWIFE.When Joan Lock began her formal training as a young nurse in the 1950s, she was unprepared for the... -
A Surgeon's Lifetime: Evolution in General Surgery 1959-2001 by David Watkin 9781805140818
RRP: €16.65€11.91'See one, do one, teach one' was the basis of David Watkin's training as a surgeon in the 1960s. By the time he became a consultant, he had ample experience but had received little supervision. He was determined to improve the experience for his juniors... -
Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo: A surgeon cuts through the evidence by Professor Ian Harris
€18.36A senior surgeon suggests that many commonly performed operations are not necessary and that any benefits they offer are a placebo. For many complaints and conditions the benefits from surgery are lower, and the risks higher, than you or your surgeon... -
The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic Joe Miller 9781802791242
RRP: €17.84€11.96When the world stopped, all hopes rested on finding a vaccine. An unlikely team answered the call. Before Covid-19 was even given its name, a select group of scientists in Germany, assembled by married couple and decades-long research partners Ugur Sahin... -
Confessions of a New York Taxi Driver (The Confessions Series) by Eugene Salomon 9780007500956
RRP: €14.27€11.00Driving a cab for more than 30 years Gene Salomon has collected a remarkable selection of stories. He shares the very best in this unforgettable memoir. Gene has had everyone in the back of his cab... ...Lauren Bacall, Leonardo di... -
Direct Red: A Surgeon's Story by Gabriel Weston
RRP: €11.89€8.71How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands?What is it like to cut into someone else's body? What is it like to stand by, powerless, while someone dies because of the incompetence of your seniors? How do you tell a beautiful young man who... -
Labyrinths: Emma Jung, Her Marriage to Carl and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis by Catrine Clay 9780007510689
RRP: €15.46€11.11The story of Emma and Carl Jung's highly unconventional marriage, their relationship with Freud, and their part in the early years of Psychoanalysis. Emma Jung was clever, ambitious and immensely wealthy, one of the... -
The Garden Diary of Doctor Darwin by Susan Campbell 9781913491789
RRP: €35.70€26.04In 1986, Susan Campbell made the chance discovery of a hitherto unknown garden diary. She spent the next 35 years researching its background before writing this book. The diary was written between 1838 and 1865 by the father of Charles Darwin, Doctor... -
All Things Bright and Beautiful: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet by James Herriot 9781529043280
RRP: €13.08€9.70** Now a major TV series on Channel 5 **Now settled into the sleepy Yorkshire village of Darrowby, and married to Helen the farmer's daughter, James Herriot thinks he's finally got himself sorted. But life as a vet in the 1930s was never going to be easy... -
Beautiful Trauma: A Journey of Discovery in Science and Healing by Rebecca Fogg
RRP: €17.84€11.97Late one night, Rebecca Fogg's hand is partially amputated in an explosion in her flat. Quick thinking saves her life, but the journey to recovery is a slow one. As the doctors rebuild her hand, Rebecca (who also survived 9/11) rebuilds her sense of... -
William Osler: A Life in Medicine by Michael Bliss
RRP: €38.66€28.80William Osler was born in a parsonage in backwoods Canada on July 12, 1849. In a life lasting seventy years, he practiced, taught, and wrote about medicine at Canada's McGill University, America's Johns Hopkins University, and finally as Regius Professor... -
Mikhail Bulgakov by Julie Curtis 9781780237411
RRP: €15.46€11.11Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) has become the most popular Russian writer of the twentieth century, even though his works were banned for decades after his death due to the repressive Soviet censorship of literature. His great novel, The Master and... -
Sigmund Freud: pocket GIANTS by Alastair Ross 9780750962636
RRP: €8.32€6.72'This is a very, very smart book. It makes Freud accessible, interesting and relevant.' - Ruby WaxSigmund Freud is rightly called the godfather of psychoanalysis. He forever changed the way we view ourselves and developed our understanding of human... -
Becoming Dr Jones: A Wild Life Dr Dr Rhys Jones 9781472299598
RRP: €26.18€17.59'Inspirational' - Professor Alice Roberts'Engrossing' - Professor Ben GarrodRhys Jones was brought up on a council estate in South Wales where expectations for what life held in store for you were slim. As he recalls, he was born fighting and never... -
The Alzheimer's Diaries by Susan Elkin
RRP: €11.89€8.71'A third presence has arrived in my marriage. Ms Alzheimer's - I think of her as a hideous, brain-eating monster - has come to live with us. Permanently.' In April 2017, Susan's husband Nicholas was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. This was followed by 28... -
Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines--The Truth Behind a Tragedy by Andrew J. Wakefield
RRP: €21.41€14.42"Dr. Wakefield sets the record straight. It was not he who showed callous disregard towards vulnerable, sick children with autism. It was the British medical establishment, the General Medical Council, the media and the pharmaceutical industry... -
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound Wendy Moore 9781474602310
RRP: €10.70€7.60Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. The most surgeons could offer by way of pain relief was a large swig of brandy... -
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the fight for women in science by Kate Zernike
RRP: €23.80€15.66'Outstanding' Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in ChemistryThe remarkable untold story of how a group of sixteen determined women used the power of the collective and the tools of science to inspire ongoing radical change. This is a... -
Permanent Present Tense: The man with no memory, and what he taught the world by Suzanne Corkin
RRP: €15.46€11.11When he was twenty-seven, Henry Molaison underwent surgery for his epilepsy. He awoke with part of his brain destroyed, and for the rest of his life would be trapped in the moment, unable to remember anything for more than a few seconds. For nearly five... -
That One Patient: Doctors' Stories of the Patients Who Changed Their Lives Forever by Ellen de Visser 9780008375119 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€3.15THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH DR ANTHONY FAUCI, DAME SALLY DAVIES AND DR JIM DOWN For every doctor there is that one patient, whose story touches them in a way they didn't... -
That One Patient: Doctors' Stories of the Patients Who Changed Their Lives Forever by Ellen de Visser
RRP: €17.84€11.85THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH DR ANTHONY FAUCI, DAME SALLY DAVIES AND DR JIM DOWN For every doctor there is that one patient, whose story touches them in a way they didn't... -
The Woman Who Thought too Much: A Memoir Joanne Limburg 9781843547037
RRP: €13.08€8.97Joanne Limburg thinks things she doesn't want to think, and does things she doesn't want to do. As a young woman, obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours had come to completely dominate her life. She knew that something was wrong, but it would take... -
Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains: 'I defy you not to be moved' - Sue Black by Dr Alexa Hagerty
RRP: €26.18€18.89ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FARCHOSEN BY FINANCIAL TIMES' READERS' FOR BEST BOOKS OF 2023A NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS EDITOR' S CHOICE'Essential reading as a human.' - Alex Marzano-Lesnevich'Chilling and vital. . . sensitive and...