London: Profile Books, 2008. First Paperback Edition. The 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 best intentions and best performance in the face... More about Better:A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
London: Wellcome Collection, 2017. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. An exquisite treasury of illustrations and objects, ‘Ayurvedic Man’ presents a visual history of some of the earliest medical systems and healing practices in the world – tracing Ayurveda and Indian medicine as they travelled from East to West, gaining, losing..... More about Ayurvedic Man: Encounters with Indian Medicine
New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1965. First New Berkley Medallion Edition (12th printing). Paperback. Berkley Medallion book # F1016. An award winning collection of twelve true short stories written by Berton Roueché and published in 1953. Each story, including the titular story Eleven Blue Men, was originally published in... More about Eleven Blue Men and other Narratives of Medical Detection
London: Flamingo, 1997. Helen Jones (cover illustration). First Flamingo Printing. Paperback. More about Plagues: Their Origins, History and Future
London: Pan Books, 1964. First Pan Books Edition, Fifth Printing. Paperback. More about Arthritis and Folk Medicine
London: Faber and Faber, 1972. First U.K. Paperback Edition. Softcover. Everywoman is the essential manual to women's health. This book will provide you with the knowledge to ask questions and make empowered decisions about your own wellbeing. A leading pioneer in gynaecology, Derek Llewellyn-Jones' balanced and clear-cut advice provides... More about Everywoman
London: William Collins, 1944. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More about Britain in Pictures: The British Red Cross
San Francisco: No Starch Press, 2016. First English Edition. First Printing. Softcover. Student nurse Kumiko has just flunked her physiology exam and has one last shot at passing her makeup test. Lucky for her, newbie health science professor Kaisei needs a guinea pig for his physiology lectures. Join Kumiko... More about The Manga Guide to Physiology
Boulder, Colorado: Blue Poppy Press, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. This is perhaps the single most famous book on traditional Chinese gynecology and obstetrics. Dating from the early Qing Dynasty, this book established many of the disease mechanisms and pattern diagnoses now standard in contemporary Chinese gynecology. More about Fu Qing-zhu's Gynecology
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1979. Patrick McCreeth (cover design). Reprint. Paperback. After explaining the defence mechanisms - such as repression, projection and rationalization - by which we all make life easier to deal with, the author outlines how personality may be expected to develop in infancy, early childhood, the play... More about The Growth of Personality: From Infancy to Old Age
New York: Ballantine Books, 1992. Trade Paperback Edition. “Comprehensive, encyclopedic, and lucid, this book is a must for all practitioners of the healing arts who want to broaden their understanding. Readers interested in the role of herbs and foods in healing will also find much to learn here, as I.... More about Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1979. Alan Fletcher (cover design). Reprint. Paperback. A Pelican Original. In this classic work, originally published in 1961, James Brown provides a compelling account of both Freud's original ideas and of the subsequent developments that arose out of them. He explains in an engaging... More about Freud and the Post-Freudians
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1980. Ninth Printing. Paperback. A Norton Critical Edition. Edited by Gunther S. Stent. The classic personal account of Watson and Crick’s groundbreaking discovery of the structure of DNA. By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick... More about The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
New York: Puffin Books, 1994. Softcover. More about A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian
New York: Vintage Books, 1996. First Vintage Books Edition. Paperback. In her bestselling classic, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison changed the way we think about moods and madness. Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even... More about An Unquiet Mind
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. We spend a third of our lives in bed, but how much do we really understand about how sleep affects us? In the past forty years, scientists have discovered that our sleep (or lack of it) can affect nearly... More about The Mystery of Sleep
Churchill Livingstone, 1996. More about Churchill's Pocketbook of Medicine (2d edition
New York: Random House, 2016. A Random House International Edition. First Printing. Paperback. More about When Breath Becomes Air
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1968. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. With a foreword by Joseph R. Levenson. More about Traditional Medicine in Modern China: Science, Nationalism, and the Tensions of Cultural Change
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1986. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. More about Matters Gray and White: A Neurologist, His Patients, and the Mysteries of the Brain
Dallas, Texas: Benbella Books, 2006. Eighteenth Printing. Softcover. The science is clear. The results are unmistakable. You can dramatically reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes just by changing your diet. More than 30 years ago, nutrition researcher T. Colin Campbell and his team at Cornell... More about The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling...
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. In the past fifty years scientists have begun to discover how the human brain functions. In this book Wilder Penfield, whose work has been at the forefront of such research, describes the current state of knowledge about the brain and... More about The Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain
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