Medical

‘I was an intern a decade ago now, but I still remember it the way soldiers remember war.’ Intern is Sandeep Jauhar’s story of his days and nights in residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question every assumption about medical care today. Resi... More

Young James, now married and working as a small-town vet, encounters a cast of extraordinary characters as he makes his way through the Yorkshire countryside tending to sick cattle, pregnant ewes, ailing dogs--and their eccentric owners. As always, Herriot's warmth, humor, and singular view of life ... More

One of the most inspirational stories of World War II. This book tells the full story of an extraordinary heroic women.... More

James Herriot's stories about his life as a vet in Yorkshire have charmed and delighted millions of readers in the twenty years since his first book If Only They Could Talk was published in 1972. All James Herriot's books, including two other omnibus editions,All Creatures Great and Small and All T... More

Friedman tells the fascinating story of the friendship and extraordinary scientific collaboration of two prodigious men: Charles Lindbergh, once the most famous person in the world; and Dr. Alexis Carrel, the Nobel Prize-winning researcher who pioneered biotechnology. Eight-page b&w photo insert.He ... More

BREAST CANCER is the first volume of The MD Anderson Cancer Care Series, featuring the best standard treatment protocols from the experts at MD Anderson Cancer Center. As more is learned about the relative roles of different treatment modalities, a pattern of practice is emerging where several diffe... More

Diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of four, John Keeler's life has been marked by a determination to make it as fulfilling and rich as possible. In this honest and heart-warming book he describes his journey from childhood to adulthood; from that initial diagnosis, through dealing with pain, ... More

In observation of the bicentenary of Erasmus Darwin's death, Cambridge is publishing this collection of personal writings by his grandson Charles. This is the first unabridged publication of a book by Charles Darwin, and it contains a series of illuminating insights into his grandfather's life and w... More

"Reassessing Foucault" critically examines the implications of Foucault's work for a wide range of areas in the social and human sciences. Focusing on the social history of medicine, successive chapters deal with his historiographical, methodological and philosophical writings, his ideas about priso... More

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In March 2003, during a missile strike in southern Baghdad, twelve-year-old Ali Abbas sustained terrible burns and lost not only his arms, but his family. From the moment his photo appeared in newspapers, this appealing young boy became an international symbol of suffering, and his courage and resil... More

A deeply moving novel about war, atonement, forgiveness   East Pakistan, 1971. A few months after losing her entire family to a violent cyclone that lashed the shores of East Pakistan, Sajida, a girl of ‘fiveandsix’, is found wandering drenched and dazed on a pavement by Ali, ... More

Gunilla Gerland tells her autobiographical story of growing up feeling like an outsider due to an undiagnosed form of autism.Gunilla Gerland tells her autobiographical story of growing up feeling like an outsider due to an undiagnosed form of autism.... More

""I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer ... More

The vivid, often gruesome portrait of the 18th century pioneering surgeon and father of modern medicine, John Hunter. In the gothic horror story, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the house of the genial doctor turned fiend is reputedly based on the home of the 18th century surgeon and anatomist John Hunter. T... More

The author presents practical advice and information from the world's foremost experts on autism, as well as her own hard-won lessons from helping her son recover from the disorder.Practical advice and information from the world's foremost experts on autism -- and a mother's own hard-won lessons fro... More