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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance Atul Gawande 9781861976574
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.10The struggle to perform well is universal, but nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between... -
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande 9780312427658
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312427658Author Atul GawandeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St... -
Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'A GOOD READ' THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'GAWANDE'S MOST POWERFUL, AND MOVING, BOOK' MALCOLM GLADWELL 'BEING MORTAL IS NOT ONLY WISE AND DEEPLY MOVING; IT IS AN... -
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande 9780805091748
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £21.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805091748Author Atul GawandePage Count 224Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science Atul Gawande 9781846681325
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.15This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made.There... -
The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15THE GAME-CHANGING BOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BEING MORTAL Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly place in the hands of the most highly skilled... -
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande 9781594139246
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £12.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594139246Author Atul GawandeFormat PaperbackImprint Large Print PressPublisher Large Print... -
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Booksplease Price: £11.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250076229Author Atul GawandeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St... -
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande 9780312421700
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312421700Author GawandeFormat PaperbackPage Count 269Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St... -
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande 9780312430009
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312430009Author Atul GawandeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St... -
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande 9780805095159
Booksplease Price: £13.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New England Book Award (Nonfiction) 2015 and Books for a Better Life (Wellness) 2015 and Indies Choice Book... -
Into the Grey Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death by Adrian Owen
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In 2006 Dr Adrian Owen and his team made medical history. They discovered a new realm of consciousness, somewhere between life and death, which they called the Grey Zone. The people who inhabit it... -
Message to My Girl: A Dying Father's Powerful Legacy of Hope by Jared Noel 9781877505546
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51With only six weeks to live, Dr Jared Noel took on the most ambitious project of his short but significant life - to document what it was like to die, and to record his final reflections on where a... -
Snowball in a Blizzard: The Tricky Problem of Uncertainty in Medicine by Steven Hatch 9781782399896
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31According to a wry saying among radiologists, finding a tumour in a mammogram is like finding a snowball in a blizzard. Up to thirty percent of breast-cancer diagnoses are given to those who have no... -
How Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua Mezrich 9781786498892 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.40A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery.Leading transplant surgeon Dr Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, moving organs from one... -
How Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua Mezrich
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.10A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery.Leading transplant surgeon Dr Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, moving organs from one... -
The Human Body in Minutes Tom Jackson 9781786481238
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A concise and illuminating tour of the human body - learn about how our bodies work and why they work the way they do, in minutes. From the basic unit of the cell, through the tissues and organs that... -
A Smell of Burning: A Memoir of Epilepsy by Colin Grant
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15One day Colin Grant's teenage brother Christopher failed to emerge from the bathroom. His family broke down the door to find him unconscious on the floor. None of their lives were ever the same again... -
Beautiful Trauma: A Journey of Discovery in Science and Healing by Rebecca Fogg
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.02Late 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,... -
No Cure for Being Human: (and Other Truths I Need to Hear) by Kate Bowler
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15***A SUNDAY TIMES AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR AND INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) asks, how do you move... -
The Age of Diagnosis: Sickness, Health and How Modern Medicine Has Gone Too Far Suzanne O’Sullivan 9781399727648
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50'She is in my view the best science writer around' SATHNAM SANGHERAWe live in an age of diagnosis: from autism to allergies, ADHD to long Covid, more people are being labelled with medical conditions... -
Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing by Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan 9781398718708
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26LONGLISTED FOR THE BREAD & ROSES AWARDHave 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... -
Well: Healing Our Beautiful, Broken World from a Hospital in West Africa by Sarah Thebarge
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.86When Sarah applied to the Yale physicians assistant program and the admissions panel asked why they should admit her, she replied, "Because I'm going to change the world some day." After more than a... -
Doctor You: Revealing the science of self-healing Jeremy Howick 9781473654228
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'Read this breakthrough book!' Deepak ChopraThrow away your statins, painkillers and antidepressants and pick up this book to find out how you can harness the body's natural powers to heal itself... -
The Brain in Minutes by Rita Carter
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The brain is considered the most complex structure in all of creation. But recent discoveries in neuroscience are now revealing the inner secrets of the brain - how it works, why it makes us who we... -
Curable: How an Unlikely Group of Radical Innovators Is Trying to Transform Our Health Care System by Travis Christofferson
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.95Smart metrics, slow thinking, off-label drugs, and a "Moneyball" prescription for fixing modern medicine--by the author of Tripping Over the Truth The United States is fast becoming the sickest... -
The Age of Diagnosis: Sickness, Health and How Modern Medicine Has Gone Too Far by Suzanne O’Sullivan 9781399727655
Booksplease Price: £13.63'She is in my view the best science writer around' SATHNAM SANGHERAWe live in an age of diagnosis: from autism to allergies, ADHD to long Covid, more people are being labelled with medical conditions... -
Everyman by Philip Roth
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £5.99Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionEveryman is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret and stoicism.The novel takes its title from a classic of early English drama, whose... -
I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That by Ben Goldacre
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58The very best journalism from one of Britain's most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling Bad Science and Bad Pharma. In Bad Science,... -
Narration as Argument by Paula Olmos 9783319568829
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book presents reflections on the relationship between narratives and argumentative discourse. It focuses on their functional and structural similarities or dissimilarities, and offers diverse... -
The Chief Concern of Medicine: The Integration of the Medical Humanities and Narrative Knowledge into Medical Practices by Ronald Schleifer
Booksplease Price: £76.14Unlike any existing studies of the medical humanities, The Chief Concern of Medicine brings to the examination of medical practices a thorough---and clearly articulated---exposition of the nature of... -
Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry by Jeffrey A. Lieberman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A world-renowned psychiatrist reveals the fascinating story of psychiatry's origins, demise and redemption. Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining 'lunatics' in cold cells and... -
That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour by Sunita Puri 9781472131331
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56'A profound meditation on a problem many of us will face; worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal' KirkusAs the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita... -
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... -
Black Box Thinking: Marginal Gains and the Secrets of High Performance by Matthew Syed 9781473613805 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.63What links the Mercedes Formula One team with Google?What links Team Sky and the aviation industry?What connects James Dyson and David Beckham?They are all Black Box Thinkers.Black Box Thinking is a... -
Night Theatre by Vikram Paralkar
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05'Morbid, and yet, you can't help but laugh.. refreshing, seductive and magical. If this book wasn't already on your radar, it needs to be.' Oyinkan Braithwaite 'I read this book in a single... -
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain by Allan Ropper 9781782395508 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £3.04What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? In this gripping and illuminating book, Dr Allan Ropper reveals the extraordinary stories behind some of the life-altering... -
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain Dr Allan Ropper 9781805463221
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95*Updated and revised edition, with a new epilogue and interview with Michael J Fox*'Engagingly written, informative, often funny' Daily Telegraph'Has the hard-boiled style of a Raymond Chandler... -
Brain and Heart: The Triumphs and Struggles of a Pediatric Neurosurgeon David I Sandberg 9781639368938
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25A warm and brilliant memoir that captures the medical and emotional intensity of pediatric neurosurgery.In this moving, unflinching, and inspiring book, Dr. David Sandberg, an internationally... -
When Breath Becomes Air: THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER by Paul Kalanithi
Booksplease Price: £8.65**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** 'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful.' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal What makes life worth living in the face of death? At the age of thirty-six, on...