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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: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.19Leaving 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'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... -
French Leave by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43Three American sisters leave their chicken farm on Long Island for a holiday in Europe. In France they encounter the charming but penniless Marquis de Maufringneuse, his writer son Jeff, and the... -
Making Places for People: 12 Questions Every Designer Should Ask by Christie Johnson Coffin 9781032413044
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Making 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... -
Sister Of My Heart by Chitra Divakaruni
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Born 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,... -
Together: Loneliness, Health and What Happens When We Find Connection by Vivek H Murthy 9781788162784
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.37President 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.53CHOSEN 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... -
The Painful Truth: The new science of why we hurt and how we can heal by Monty Lyman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'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... -
Gattefosse's Aromatherapy by Rene-Maurice Gattefosse
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Here 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... -
Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan 9781398718692
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.92Have 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... -
Everything is True: A junior doctor's story of life, death and grief in a time of pandemic by Dr Roopa Farooki
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73CHOSEN 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... -
The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations by Thomas Morris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The 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,... -
33 Meditations on Death: Notes from the Wrong End of Medicine by David Jarrett
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15AS 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: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50"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... -
Everything is True: A junior doctor's story of life, death and grief in a time of pandemic Dr Roopa Farooki 9781526633392
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.02CHOSEN 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... -
Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the Er by M D Farzon A Nahvi 9781982160319
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982160319Author M D Farzon A NahviFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprin -
Doctors Who Write: The Literary Lives of Physicians Seymour I. Schwartz 9781633884335
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.29An 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... -
The Vaccine Race: How Scientists Used Human Cells to Combat Killer Viruses Meredith Wadman 9781784160135
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.85**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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95From 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 ... -
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness by Andrew Scull 9780141996455
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51CHOSEN 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: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.11Though 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26How 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... -
Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors by Caroline Elton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15For 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... -
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Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors by Caroline Elton 9780099510796 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £3.43For 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... -
The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Doctor by Arthur Kleinman
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The moving memoir of a doctor who became a family caregiver and learned why care is so central to all our lives 'Beautiful and deeply moving. A truly extraordinary work that will change how we think... -
The Doctor Stories by William Carlos Williams 9780811228176
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.86The 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... -
The House of God by Samuel Shem
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £14.60By 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'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... -
Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine by Roy Porter
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Mankind's battle to stay alive is the greatest of all subjects. This brief, witty and unusual book by Britain's greatest medical historian compresses into a tiny span a lifetime spent thinking about... -
Trick or Treatment?: Alternative Medicine on Trial by Dr. Simon Singh
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Welcome to the world of alternative medicine.Prince Charles is a staunch defender and millions of people swear by it; most UK doctors consider it to be little more than superstition and a waste of... -
The Aran Islands by J. M. Synge 9780140184327
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.23In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World. The Aran Islands, published in the same year, records his visits to the islands in 1898-1901, when... -
The Divine Comedy: Paradise by Mark Musa
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02The final volume in this brilliant translation destined to take its place among the great English versions of The Divine Comedy. In his translation of Paradise, Mark Musa exhibits the same... -
Brainstorm: Detective Stories From the World of Neurology by Dr. Suzanne O'Sullivan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46What happens to us as we die? Discover the answers in this exclusive 25th anniversary edition of Sherwin B Nuland's seminal book ... -
Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Daniel C. Dennett's Freedom Evolves tackles the most important question of human existence - is there really such a thing as free will? How can humans make genuinely independent choices if we are... -
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel Levitin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy,... -
Winnicott by Adam Phillips
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23D.W. Winnicott's remarkable books, including The Piggle, Home Is Where We Start From and The Child, Family and the Outside World (all published by Penguin) are still read, valued and argued with over...