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Your Heart, My Hands: An Immigrant's Remarkable Journey to Become One of America's Preeminent Cardiac Surgeons by Arun K. Singh MD
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €18.08Leaving a life marked by crippling setbacks and his father's doubt, in 1967 a twenty-something doctor from India arrived in America with only five dollars and the desire to claim his American dream... -
Speaking of Death: What the Bereaved Really Need by Annie Broadbent
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02'To support the bereaved, we need to get to grips with death.'Talking about death and grief has become something of a modern taboo. Most of us would rather avoid the subject altogether because it... -
Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan 9781398718692
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €20.13Have you ever felt unheard by your doctor? Been frustrated that they haven't understood your symptoms, that they have neglected your concerns?When Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan was admitted to hospital as a... -
Making Places for People: 12 Questions Every Designer Should Ask by Christie Johnson Coffin 9781032413044
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €46.21Making Places for People explores 12 social questions crucial to environmental design. Authors Christie Johnson Coffin and Jenny Young bring perspectives from practice and teaching to challenge... -
Together: Loneliness, Health and What Happens When We Find Connection by Vivek H Murthy 9781788162784
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €9.96President Obama's and President Biden's appointment as US Surgeon General 'The most important book you'll read this year' Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive 'Fascinating, moving and essential... -
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Everything is True: A junior doctor's story of life, death and grief in a time of pandemic by Dr Roopa Farooki 9781526633392 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €3.01CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN 'A STAND OUT' SUNDAY TIMES 'STARTLINGLY HONEST AND DEVASTATINGLY GOOD' RACHEL CLARKE 'YOU EMERGE KNOWING HOW LUCKY YOU ARE TO HAVE READ... -
Gattefosse's Aromatherapy by Rene-Maurice Gattefosse
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.16Here is the missing link in Essential Oil literature, the first modern work written by the man who coined the word 'Aromatherapy.'In July 1910 Rene- Maurice Gattefosse discovered the healing... -
Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the Er by M D Farzon A Nahvi 9781982160319
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €14.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982160319Author M D Farzon A NahviFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprin -
Sister Of My Heart by Chitra Divakaruni
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.84Born in a big old Calcutta house on the same night, the wild, tragic night both their fathers were mysteriously lost, Sudha and Anju are cousins. Closer even than sisters, they share clothes,... -
Everything is True: A junior doctor's story of life, death and grief in a time of pandemic by Dr Roopa Farooki
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN AND THE NEW STATESMAN 'A STAND OUT' SUNDAY TIMES 'STARTLINGLY HONEST AND DEVASTATINGLY GOOD' RACHEL CLARKE, GUARDIAN 'BRILLIANT' OBSERVER 'POWERFUL AND... -
33 Meditations on Death: Notes from the Wrong End of Medicine by David Jarrett
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70AS FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4 'Start the Week' : 'very moving - brilliant and profound'"Brilliant - a grimly humorous yet humane account of the realities of growing old in the modern age." - Henry... -
Healing a Divided Nation: How the American Civil War Revolutionized Western Medicine by Carole Adrienne
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €18.45"An exceptional look at the growth of health care spurred by the Civil War?"-David J Kent, award-winning scientist and author of Lincoln: The Fire of Genius: How Abraham Lincoln's Commitment to... -
The Painful Truth: The new science of why we hurt and how we can heal by Monty Lyman
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02'An enthralling read' - Dr Rachel Clarke, bestselling author of Dear LifeA Royal Society Science Prize shortlisted author'A remarkable book' - Sunday Times__________What is phantom limb pain? Can... -
The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations by Thomas Morris
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26'Thrilling... The "dizzying" story of heart surgery is every bit as important as that of the nuclear, computer or rocket ages. And now it has been given the history it deserves' James McConnachie,... -
The Running Sky: A Bird-Watching Life by Tim Dee 9780099516491
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66The Running Sky records a lifetime of looking at birds. Begining in summer with clouds of breeding seabirds in Shetland and ending with crepuscular nightjars like giant moths in the heart of England,... -
Everything is True: A junior doctor's story of life, death and grief in a time of pandemic Dr Roopa Farooki 9781526633392
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €10.73CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN 'A STAND OUT' SUNDAY TIMES 'STARTLINGLY HONEST AND DEVASTATINGLY GOOD' RACHEL CLARKE 'YOU EMERGE KNOWING HOW LUCKY YOU ARE TO HAVE READ... -
Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors by Caroline Elton
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70For anyone trying to understand the impossible strains placed on our medical workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, this book is indispensable. _____________________________'A furious dispatch from... -
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64In Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, New York Times bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Anna Quindlen shares the events of her own life to illuminate our own. From childhood memories to manic... -
The Vaccine Race: How Scientists Used Human Cells to Combat Killer Viruses Meredith Wadman 9781784160135
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €10.53**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE****A GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR**'Riveting ... invites comparison to Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'NatureThe epic and... -
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health: A journey into the heartland of psychiatry by Nathan Filer
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46From the creator of the hit podcast WHY DO I FEEL?'I cannot recommend it highly enough.' Caitlin Moran'Brims with compassion and wit.' Cathy Rentzenbrink'Absolutely blew me away.' Jo Brand'Brilliant ... -
Brainstorm: Detective Stories From the World of Neurology by Dr. Suzanne O'Sullivan
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70'I loved it. She is in my view the best science writer around - a true descendant of Oliver Sacks' Sathnam Sanghera, author of The Boy with the TopknotThe brain is the most complex structure in the... -
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Murphy
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46The most fatal virus known to science, rabies-a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans-kills nearly one hundred percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. In this... -
Connections: The New Science of Emotion by Karl Deisseroth
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'Beautiful to read and packed with cutting-edge science' Observer'Poetic, mind-stretching and, through it all, deeply human' Daniel LevitinMental illness is one of the greatest causes of human... -
How We Die by Sherwin B. Nuland
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26What happens to us as we die? Discover the answers in this exclusive 25th anniversary edition of Sherwin B Nuland's seminal book ... -
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Dying: A Memoir by Cory Taylor 9781782119784 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €2.26SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 STELLA PRIZEIn the year before her death, as she struggled with an untreatable illness, Cory Taylor began to write about her experiences, the patterns of her life, and of... -
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness by Andrew Scull 9780141996455
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES AND DAILY TELEGRAPHSHORTLISTED FOR THE HUGHES PRIZE'A riveting chronicle of faulty science, false promises, arrogance, greed, and shocking disregard for the... -
Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781857157307
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €10.84Though as yet little known in English-speaking countries, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is the finest German poet of this century and one of the greatest lyrical writers in the history of Western... -
Why We Die: And How We Live: The New Science of Ageing and Longevity Venki Ramakrishnan 9781529369281
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02How can science help us live better and longer? A groundbreaking exploration of longevity from Nobel Prize-winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE... -
Doctors Who Write: The Literary Lives of Physicians Seymour I. Schwartz 9781633884335
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €21.77An 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... -
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Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors by Caroline Elton 9780099510796 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €4.08For anyone trying to understand the impossible strains placed on our medical workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, this book is indispensable. _____________________________'A furious dispatch from... -
Mount Misery by Samuel Shem 9780552776226
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €16.48Welcome to Mount Misery psychiatric hospital, home of the crazed, the suicidal, the Machiavellian and the wicked. And that's just the doctors. For Dr Roy Basch, proudly starting his residency there,... -
The Doctor Stories by William Carlos Williams 9780811228176
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €11.73The Doctor Stories collects thirteen of Williams's stories (direct accounts of his experiences as a doctor), six related poems, and a chapter from his autobiography that connects the world of... -
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor in 1978, while suffering from breast cancer herself. In her study she reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add... -
Wonderful Life Stephen Jay Gould 9780099273455
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago. Called the Burgess Shale, it holds the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived - a... -
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Michael Sandel's Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? invites readers of all ages and political persuasions on a journey of moral reflection, and shows how reasoned debate can illuminate our lives... -
In Shock: How nearly dying made me a better doctor by Dr. Rana Awdish
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70'I read the first chapters at such a pace that I almost had to remind myself to breathe.' Sunday Times'Tense, powerful and gripping... her writing style is often nothing short of beautiful -... -
Future-Proof Your Business by Tom Cheesewright
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70A Financial Times book of the monthIt has never been more important for business leaders to look to the future. Yet, when we are living through some of the most uncertain times we have ever faced, it... -
Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst 9781529920796
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70A darkly comic and moving memoir on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain, from the award-winning Oxford professor.'A book that will stay with you for life'NATALIE HAYNES'The... -
The House of God by Samuel Shem
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €17.62By turns heartbreaking, hilarious, and utterly human, The House of God is a mesmerizing and provocative novel about what it really takes to become a doctor."The raunchy, troubling, and hilarious... -
Face to Face: True stories of life, death and transformation from my career as a facial surgeon by James McCaul
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91'Face to Face is not just a brilliant introduction to one of the most exacting areas of modern medicine, it's a humbling glimpse of humans at their best.' Sunday TimesSo much of our identity and...