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Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines--The Truth Behind a Tragedy by Andrew J. Wakefield
RRP: £17.99£11.85"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... -
That One Patient: Doctors' Stories of the Patients Who Changed Their Lives Forever by Ellen de Visser 9780008375119 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.65THE 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: £14.99£9.70THE 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 Angina Monologues: stories of surgery for broken hearts by Samer Nashef 9781911617785
RRP: £14.99£9.80A pioneering cardiac surgeon expertly sews up the heart of surgery, the health of the nation, and the NHS. The Angina Monologues speeds from the transporting of a donor's heart up the motorway hard shoulder, to cautionary stories of excessive... -
Laboratory Disease: Robert Koch's Medical Bacteriology by Christoph Gradmann 9780801893131
£38.71In the nineteenth century, the new field of medical bacteriology identified microorganisms and explained how they spread disease. This book interweaves the history of this discipline and the biography of one of its founders, Nobel Prize-winning German... -
Please, Nurse!: A Student Nurse in the 1950s by Joan Lock 9781409128137 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£1.85Joan 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... -
Please, Nurse!: A Student Nurse in the 1950s by Joan Lock
RRP: £8.99£6.20Joan 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... -
Sixty Years a Nurse by Mary Hazard
RRP: £9.99£6.64When 18-year-old Mary Hazard touched down in post-war Putney to begin her nurse's training, she could never have known that it was the beginning of a colourful career that would still be going 60 years later - one of the longest ever serving NHS nurses. ... -
Broken: in the Best Possible Way by Jenny Lawson 9781529066814
RRP: £9.99£7.27The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Furiously Happy and Let's Pretend This Never Happened. Now with a new bonus chapter.'Broken is the party of the year . . . I loved it' - Sarah Knight, bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic... -
Morgue: A Life in Death by DiMaio, Vincent,Franscell, Ron
RRP: £12.99£11.75In this clear eyed, gritty, and enthralling narrative, Dr. Vincent Di Maio and veteran crime writer Ron Franscell guide us behind the morgue doors to tell a fascinating life story through the cases that have made Di Maio famous-from the exhumation of... -
Patient 1 by Charlotte Raven
RRP: £14.99£9.53* Shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize *Honest, intelligent and unsentimental, Patient 1 is a startling self-portrait written with wit and vulnerability, and a unique testament to the power of hope in the face of illness.Charlotte Raven had... -
Sigmund Freud: pocket GIANTS by Alastair Ross 9780750962636
RRP: £6.99£5.47'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... -
FRONTLINE: How to Save Lives in War, Disaster and Disease by Dr Tony Redmond
RRP: £16.99£12.28A 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 ... -
Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains: 'I defy you not to be moved' - Sue Black by Dr Alexa Hagerty
RRP: £22.00£14.56ONE 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... -
Slender Threads: A Young Person's Guide to Parkinson's Disease by Pete Langman 9780957566200
RRP: £10.00£9.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957566200Author Pete LangmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 157Imprint Pete LangmanPublisher Marvelhouse Words -
A Life in Trauma: Memoirs of an Emergency Physician by Chris Luke
RRP: £14.99£10.95Concern. Compassion. Doubt. Despair. Anger. Hope. Imagine juggling these feelings every day in a situation where your ability to manage them could be the difference between life and death. For Dr Chris Luke, a consultant in emergency medicine,... -
Lampedusa: Gateway to Europe by Pietro Bartolo 9780857057297
RRP: £12.99£2.42The essential testimony of an Italian doctor who has worked for twenty-five years on the front line of perhaps the largest mass migration in human history."Bartolo tells us about rescuing everyone he can, burying those he cannot, and saving their stories... -
On Call: A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency by Emily R Transue 9780312324841
RRP: £12.99£9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312324841Author Emily R TransueFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318g -
Starman by Jamie Doran
RRP: £10.99£7.77_______________ 'Starman takes us at breakneck speed through Gagarin's strange trajectory ... Without books like these to shelter it, history is eroded by propaganda and real heroes fall victim to spin' - New Scientist 'A riveting account of... -
How to Treat People: A Nurse at Work by Molly Case
RRP: £9.99£7.11'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... -
The Baby's Coming: A Story of Dedication by an Independent Midwife by Virginia Howes 9781472211736 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.65Virginia Howes was a mother of four doing the ironing when she had a revelation. Still broody, but not really wanting to add to her family, she realised that becoming a midwife was her true vocation. It was a long journey to get the education and... -
The Baby's Coming: A Story of Dedication by an Independent Midwife by Virginia Howes
RRP: £10.99£7.40Virginia Howes was a mother of four doing the ironing when she had a revelation. Still broody, but not really wanting to add to her family, she realised that becoming a midwife was her true vocation. It was a long journey to get the education and... -
Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery by Michael Bliss 9780195329612
RRP: £32.49£24.20Here is the first biography to appear in fifty years of Harvey Cushing, a giant of American medicine and without doubt the greatest figure in the history of brain surgery. Drawing on new collections of intimate personal and family papers, diaries and... -
At the Coalface: The memoir of a pit nurse by Joan Hart 9780007596164
RRP: £10.99£8.29A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan, who started nursing in the 1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners' strike. ... -
What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student's Journey by Audrey Young 9781570615276
£11.83A young doctor writes frankly of her medical training in small rural communities around the world, reflecting on the important lessons she learned along the way Do sleek high-tech hospitals teach more about medicine and less about humanity? Do doctors... -
Don't Panic It's Only the Nurse! by Vera Hemsley
RRP: £7.99£5.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788305464Author Vera HemsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers -
The Ministry of Bodies by Seamus O'Mahony
RRP: £9.99£7.11Life and death in a modern hospital, from Seamus O'Mahony, the award-winning author of The Way We Die Now and Can Medicine Be Cured? Seamus O'Mahony charts the realities of work in the 'ministry of bodies', that huge complex where people come to be... -
The Cure for Good Intentions: A Doctor's Story by Sophie Harrison
RRP: £9.99£6.80'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... -
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
RRP: £28.00£18.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594204227Author Michael PollanFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
Journeys: Inspirational Stories Of Recovery From Alcohol Addiction Using A Breakthrough Scientific Method by Claudia Christian 9780648283164
RRP: £20.95£20.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648283164Author Claudia ChristianFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Floating World PressPublisher Floating World PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)... -
Hope Not Fear: Finding My Way from Refugee to Filmmaker to NHS Hospital Cleaner and Activist by Hassan Akkad
RRP: £10.99£7.77'An extraordinary story that deals with the urgent issues of our era . . . a story about resilience, renewal' - Elif ShafakA stunning testament to human strength, courage and compassion, Hope Not Fear shows that nobody is powerless to change the world... -
Healed: How Cancer Gave Me a New Life by Manisha Koirala and Neelam Kumar
RRP: £13.95£10.17Healed is the powerful, moving and deeply personal story of actor Manisha Koirala's battle against ovarian cancer. From her treatment in the US and the wonderful care provided by the oncologists there to how she rebuilt her life once she returned home,... -
Permanent Present Tense: The man with no memory, and what he taught the world by Suzanne Corkin
RRP: £12.99£9.09When 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... -
The Lady's Handbook For Her Mysterious Illness by Sarah Ramey
RRP: £18.99£12.75'A visceral, scathing, erudite read that digs deep into how modern medicine continues to fail women and what can be done about it' Booklist The darkly funny memoir of Sarah Ramey's years-long battle with a mysterious illness that doctors thought was all... -
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uche Blackstock 9780593491287
RRP: £25.00£16.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593491287Author Uche BlackstockFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Call the Vet: Farmers, Dramas and Disasters - My First Year as a Country Vet by Anna Birch 9780753555071 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
JOHN MARTIN LITTLEJOHN: An Enigma of Osteopathy by John O'Brien 9781848291386
RRP: £22.99£21.48J Martin Littlejohn was a person who stood literally and figuratively shoulder to shoulder with the founder of osteopathy, A T Still. A proud presbyterian Scot who made his career and reputation in the USA, only to have it questioned and discredited... -
How Have I Cheated Death? A Short and Merry Life with Cystic Fibrosis by Tim Wotton
RRP: £7.99£5.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849637190Author Tim WottonFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks 9781529087420
RRP: £10.99£7.93'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... -
Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency by Jonty Claypole
RRP: £14.99£11.35'TIMELY' David Mitchell 'MOVING ... REMARKABLE' SUNDAY TIMES 'ONE OF THOSE RARE BOOKS I HADN'T REASLISED I'D BEEN WAITING FOR UNTIL I READ IT.' Owen Sheers 'OPEN-MINDED, THOUGHTFUL AND WISE... A LIBERATING BOOK' Colm Toibin In an age of...