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
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
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. This book brings the study of gender to Chinese medicine and in so doing contextualizes Chinese medicine in history. It examines the rich but neglected tradition of fuke, or medicine for women, over the seven hundred years between the Song and... More
London: Pan Books, 1964. First Pan Books Edition, Fifth Printing. Paperback. More
London: William Collins, 1944. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1969. First Printing. Paperback. Modern Read book # PB-199. Dr. Horn's report is based on the longest continuous observation of the Chinese revolution by a Western writer. In 1954, Horn and his family uprooted themselves and went to China. For the next fifteen years, Dr... More
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
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
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
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
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
Abacus, 2001. More
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1970. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Based largely on collaborative work with Wang Ling, Lu Gwei-Djen, and Ho Ping-Yu. More
New York: Puffin Books, 1994. Softcover. More
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
Churchill Livingstone, 1996. More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1968. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. With a foreword by Joseph R. Levenson. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1986. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. More
Michigan: The University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Part of the : Science, Medicine & Technology in East Asia series, Vol. 1 Nathan Sivin, General Editor. More
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
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
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