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Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health Dr Marty Makary 9781785126925
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89'ENTHRALLING ... A PASSIONATE, WELL-ARGUED AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING READ' - The TimesAN AMAZON BOOK OF THE YEARFor readers of Chris van Tulleken, Tim Spector and Ben Goldacre: An international... -
With the End in Mind: How to Live and Die Well by Kathryn Mannix
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.37THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Impossible to read with dry eyes or an unaltered mindset' Sunday Times ... -
The Art of Caregiving in Fiction, Film, and Memoir by Jeffrey Berman 9781350166578
Booksplease Price: £112.13Bringing together the human story of care with its representation in film, fiction and memoir, this book combines an analysis of care narratives to inform and inspire ideas about this major role in... -
The Cleveland Clinic Way (Pb) by Toby Cosgrove 9781265844806
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £27.99This is the future. Join the revolution. Transform your organization the Cleveland Clinic way."One of the best healthcare systems in the world."President Barack ObamaAmerican healthcare is in crisis... -
Last Best Hope by George Packer
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.23What happened to America? Is there still hope?We have arrived at a critical moment in American history. The United States is divided, its democracy is shaken. But all is not lost.The remarkable fruit... -
Shapeshifters: A Doctor's Notes on Medicine & Human Change Gavin Francis 9781781257739
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Unreliable bodies and shifting symptoms are all in a day's work for a GP. In his years of practising, Gavin Francis has seen it all: the promising law student trapped under the spell of anorexia;... -
Teach Me How to Work and Keep Me Kind: The Possibilities of Literature and Composition in an American High School by Joseph F. Riener 9781475816945
Booksplease Price: £76.11Teach Me How to Work and Keep Me Kind offers the content of AP English classes. This book intends to serve as a guide and encouragement to educators by showing what can be possible when a teacher... -
Free For All: Why The NHS Is Worth Saving by Gavin Francis 9781800819252
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17'Needle-sharp analysis from the front line' Ian Rankin 'Utterly compelling' Henry Marsh 'Wonderful ... A heartbreaking chronicle of the NHS's near-demise, and a call to action' Leah Hazard ... -
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes Maria Konnikova 9780857867278
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.57No fictional character is more renowned for his extraordinary powers of mind than Sherlock Holmes. But what exactly is it that sets him apart as a detective of the highest order, and can we harness... -
Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexievich
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Haunting stories from the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - A new translation of Zinky Boys based on the revised text - From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a... -
Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern Medicine by Thomas H. Lee 9780674724976
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £31.32Since the 1950s, the death rate from heart attacks has plunged from 35 percent to about 5 percent-and fatalistic attitudes toward this disease and many others have faded into history. Much of the... -
Unity Of Mistakes: A Phenomenological Interpretation by Marianne A. Paget 9781592131860
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Marianne Paget's The Unity of Mistakes has long been considered a landmark text on the nature of medical error. Paget-who herself died because of a medical error-argued that mistakes are an intrinsic... -
Puzzle Me the Right Answer to that One: The Further Possibilities of Literature and Composition in an American High School by Joseph F. Riener 9781475816976
Booksplease Price: £65.97Puzzle Me the Right Answer to that One offers the content of AP English classes. This book intends to serve as a guide and encouragement to educators by showing what can be possible when a teacher... -
Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Acclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America's descent into a failed state, and envisions a path toward overcoming injustices, paralyses, and divides How, in a few... -
Living with Cancer: A Step-by-Step Guide for Coping Medically and Emotionally with a Serious Diagnosis by Vicki A. Jackson 9781421422336
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £13.78The prospect of entering treatment is overwhelming for anyone facing a diagnosis of cancer. While patients have access to a vast amount of medical information online, this advice is often unreliable... -
Living with Cancer: A Step-by-Step Guide for Coping Medically and Emotionally with a Serious Diagnosis by Vicki A. Jackson 9781421422329
RRP: £44.50Booksplease Price: £33.20The prospect of entering treatment is overwhelming for anyone facing a diagnosis of cancer. While patients have access to a vast amount of medical information online, this advice is often unreliable... -
The Social Medicine Reader, Second Edition: Volume One: Patients, Doctors, and Illness by Nancy R. King 9780822335559 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £24.63Duke University Press is pleased to announce the second edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader. The Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers,... -
Everything Happens For A Reason And Other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bowler
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 'A meditation on sense-making when there's no sense to be made, on letting go when we can't hold on, and on being unafraid even when we're terrified.' LUCY KALANITHI ... -
Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature'Desperately important and impossible to put down. It is timeless. . . what shines clear from the testimonies is love - love which can make you do the most... -
The Journey's End: An Investigation of Death and Dying In Modern America Michael D Connelly 9798216463696
Booksplease Price: £18.74In elderhood, the health care system has a narrow view of how to provide care. It focuses on extending a patient's life at all costs, with an over-reliance on machines and procedures, instead of... -
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg 9780753548271 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.03From Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and... -
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49We often think identity is personal. But the identities that shape the world, our struggles, and our hopes, are social ones, shared with countless others. Our sense of self is shaped by our family,... -
Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System by Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Booksplease Price: £12.97The definitive story of American health care today,its causes, consequences, and confusionsIn March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. It was the most extensive reform of America's... -
Superbugs: the race to stop an epidemic by Matt McCarthy 9781911617433
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60Drug-resistant bacteria - known as superbugs - are one of the biggest medical threats of our time. Here, a doctor, researcher, and ethics professor tells the exhilarating story of his race to beat... -
Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care by Rick Mayes 9780801884542
RRP: £45.50Booksplease Price: £33.94This is the definitive work on Medicare's prospective payment system (PPS), which had its origins in the 1972 Social Security Amendments, was first applied to hospitals in 1983, and came to fruition... -
Superbugs: the race to stop an epidemic by Matt McCarthy 9781911617433 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £3.49Drug-resistant bacteria - known as superbugs - are one of the biggest medical threats of our time. Here, a doctor, researcher, and ethics professor tells the exhilarating story of his race to beat... -
The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah 9781631495977
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.73Who do you think you are? That's a question bound up in another: What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. Culture. Such affiliations give contours to our sense of self,... -
The Impact Cycle: What Instructional Coaches Should Do to Foster Powerful Improvements in Teaching by Jim Knight 9781506306865
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £27.28"Jim Knight is one of the wise men of coaching. His well is deep; he draws from it the best tools from practitioners, the wisdom of experience, and research-based insights. And he never loses sight... -
The Creative Destruction of Medicine (Revised and Expanded Edition): How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care by Eric Topol
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56Now with a new postscript covering the unfolding health care revolutionMobile technology has transformed our lives, and personal genomics is revolutionizing biology. But despite the availability of... -
Almost Over: Almost Over: Aging, Dying, Dead by F.M. Kamm 9780190097158
Booksplease Price: £36.85In Almost Over, F. M. Kamm presents a wide-ranging philosophical discussion of the moral, legal, and medical issues related to aging, dying, and death. She begins by considering different views about... -
Almost Over: Aging, Dying, Dead by F.M. Kamm 9780197764107
Booksplease Price: £21.62In Almost Over, F. M. Kamm presents a wide-ranging philosophical discussion of the moral, legal, and medical issues related to aging, dying, and death. She begins by considering different views about... -
A Fly for the Prosecution: How Insect Evidence Helps Solve Crimes by M. Lee Goff 9780674007277
Booksplease Price: £28.03The forensic entomologist turns a dispassionate, analytic eye on scenes from which most people would recoil--human corpses in various stages of decay, usually the remains of people who have met a... -
Every Deep-Drawn Breath: an intensive-care doctor's notes on healing by Wes Ely
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.99An 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... -
The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom by L.S. Dugdale 9780062932648
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A Columbia University physician comes across a popular medieval text on dying well written after the horror of the Black Plague and discovers ancient wisdom for rethinking death and gaining insight... -
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.79A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business... -
Leading Successful Change, Revised and Updated Edition: 8 Keys to Making Change Work by Gregory P Shea 9781613630945
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58"Few people have more experience guiding organizational change than Greg Shea and Cassie Solomon." -Adam Grant, New York Times-bestselling author, Originals and Give and Take Featured on CNBC and in... -
Enviromedics: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health by Jay Lemery 9781538189818
Booksplease Price: £17.42Many of us have concerns about the effects of climate change on Earth, but we often overlook the essential issue of human health. This book addresses that oversight and enlightens readers about the...