Product Description: "What doesn't kill you makes you." Follow a grief counselor through a near death experience as she climbs her way through tremendous odds to finding normal. Anomaly is rare medical thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat combined with nail biting legal suspense until the last page...read more

Product Description: To these seven narratives of neurological disorder, Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his best sellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat...read more

Product Description: A lo largo de mi vida, ya son muchas las ocasiones en las que he dicho que la práctica de la medicina no se diferencia de la de cualquier otra profesión u ocupación. Todas las actividades que desarrollamos los seres humanos son necesarias; desde la aparentemente más sencilla, hasta la más compleja...read more

Product Description: NLP is the short form version used when referring to Neuro Linguistic Programming. Simply put the NLP is the term used to describe the three basic systems within a vast array of connecting systems. These three basic systems are the neurology system, the language system, and the programming system...read more

Product Description: Caring for patients is a privilege. Learning how to assist and watch patients as they grapple with the challenges and joys life dishes out is a process. If we are paying attention, we gain insights into our own struggles. Medical students from across Minnesota reflect on their experiences in the anatomy lab and the library, on the hospital wards and in clinic exam rooms...read more

Product Description: Donner Prize-winning author Dr. David Gratzer (Code Blue, ECW Press) edits and introduces this collection of twelve essays on health care reform in Canada, advocating an open-minded approach to such concepts as privatization, two-tier health care, and user fees...read more

A collection of true stories about bites and stings and their medical treatments includes pieces from around the world and throughout history and features patients with such conditions as West Nile virus, African sleeping sickness, and Leishmaniasis. Reprint.

Surgeons employ craft, cunning, and technology to open, observe, and repair patient bodies. In Bodies in Formation, anthropologist Rachel Prentice enters surgical suites increasingly packed with new medical technologies to explore how surgeons are made in the early twenty-first century. Prentice argues that medical students and residents learn through practice, coming to embody unique ways of perceiving, acting, and being. Drawing on ethnographic observation in anatomy laboratories, operating rooms, and technology design groups, she shows how trainees become physicians through interactions with colleagues and patients, technologies and pathologies, bodies and persons. Bodies in Formation foregrounds the technical, ethical, and affective formation of physicians, demonstrating how, even within a world of North American biomedicine increasingly dominated by technologies for remote interventions and computerized teaching, good care remains the art of human healing.

Product Description: PRAISE FOR BREATHING FOR TWO:  "In this page-turner, veteran anesthesiologist Pascoe offers a riveting portrait of surgery's most harrowing relationship and a breathtaking (pun intended!) account of what it means to hold another person's life in one's hands...read more

Product Description: The Calling is a collection of essays that deal with the uniquely intimate relationship between patients and their physicians. This relationship is based on the patient's history, secrets, and deepest fears, and also those of his or her doctor...read more

Product Description: Unlike 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 narrative. The book builds on the work of linguistics, semiotics, narratology, and discourse theory and examines numerous literary works and narrative "vignettes" of medical problems, situations, and encounters...read more

Product Description: Cuando las funciones biológicas terminan su ciclo, también acaba la vida de nuestro cuerpo. Al igual que de la educación sexual, hasta hace unos años era casi un tabú hablar sobre la muerte. Sin embargo, en nuestro tiempo, es cada vez más natural y práctico asumir el tema con todo lo que significa, sin eludir las realidades que tarde o temprano debemos afrontar...read more

Product Description: In 2004, Dr. Robert T. Cochran published Understanding Chronic Pain, a ground-breaking work exploring the links between pain, depression, childhood trauma, substance abuse, and bipolar disease. A companion to that work, Curing Chronic Pain demonstrates the advancements Cochran has made in successfully treating patients suffering from pain...read more

Picking up where Berton Roueché’s The Medical Detectives left off, The Deadly Dinner Party presents fifteen edge-of-your-seat, real-life medical detective stories written by a practicing physician. Award-winning author Jonathan Edlow, M.D., shows the doctor as detective and the epidemiologist as elite sleuth in stories that are as gripping as the best thrillers.In these stories a notorious stomach bug turns a suburban dinner party into a disaster that almost claims its host; a diminutive woman routinely eats more than her football-playing boyfriend but continually loses weight; a young executive is diagnosed with lung cancer, yet the tumors seem to wax and wane inexplicably. Written for the lay person who wishes to better grasp how doctors decipher the myriad clues and puzzling symptoms they often encounter, each story presents a very different case where doctors must work to find the accurate diagnosis before it is too late. Edlow uses his unique ability to relate complex medical concepts in a writing style that is clear, engaging and easily understandable. The resulting stories both entertain us and teach us much about medicine, its history and the subtle interactions among pathogens, humans, and the environment.