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Product Description: Medicine has long been considered the most noble of human professions. Years before we understood the intricate and complex workings of our cells, tissues, and organs, there were men and women who sought to heal the sick and ease their suffering...read more
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9781477781500 | Rosen Young Adult, January 1, 2015, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: Medicine has long been considered the most noble of human professions.
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9780300191141 | Yale Univ Pr, April 29, 2014, cover price $30.00
Product Description: The medical profession is rich in those who have made names for themselves outside of medicine. The fields of literature, exploration, business, sport, entertainment, and beyond abound with doctors whose interests lie outside medicine...read more
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9781611494662 | Univ of Delaware Pr, November 26, 2013, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: The medical profession is rich in those who have made names for themselves outside of medicine.
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9781611495973 | Reprint edition (Univ of Delaware Pr, October 16, 2015), cover price $49.99 | About this edition: The medical profession is rich in those who have made names for themselves outside of medicine.
Product Description: Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129 - ca. 216) began his remarkable career tending to wounded gladiators in provincial Asia Minor. Later in life he achieved great distinction as one of a small circle of court physicians to the family of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, at the very heart of Roman society...read more
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9780199767670 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 2013), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Galen of Pergamum (A.
Product Description: English summary: Born in Pergamum at the beginning of the 2nd century AD, Galen (129-216) was instructed by a father whom he loved dearly, so much that it was only until after his death that he decided to leave his hometown to become part of the Hippocratic tradition of itinerant doctors...read more
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9782251381176 | Les Belles Lettres, December 12, 2012, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: English summary: Born in Pergamum at the beginning of the 2nd century AD, Galen (129-216) was instructed by a father whom he loved dearly, so much that it was only until after his death that he decided to leave his hometown to become part of the Hippocratic tradition of itinerant doctors.
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9780520268364 | 1 edition (Univ of California Pr, June 6, 2011), cover price $54.95
9780263137675, titled "Falling in Love" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 1, 1994), cover price $19.95 | also contains Falling in Love
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9780520274471 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, August 1, 2012), cover price $24.95
Product Description: Dr Harold Shipman may have been the most notorious of his ilk, but he was not alone. Despite the high regard in which they are held by society, doctors are driven by the same desires and needs as any other human being. And they are also susceptible to those demons that make murderers of some of us...read more
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9781906476649 | Gardners Books, April 11, 2012, cover price $25.35 | About this edition: Dr Harold Shipman may have been the most notorious of his ilk, but he was not alone.
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9781846195730 | 1 edition (CRC Pr I Llc, March 31, 2012), cover price $54.95
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9780881354522 | Science History Pubns, November 30, 2011, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Essays cover such topics as Johns Hopkins Personalia, Clinical Matters, Osler qua Osler, Ethical Issues, Miscellanea.
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9780231072892, titled "Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship" | Reprint edition (Columbia Univ Pr, May 1, 1992), cover price $29.50 | also contains Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship
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9781742373300 | 1 edition (Allen & Unwin, October 1, 2011), cover price $21.95
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9781615303670 | Britannica Educational Pub, January 15, 2011, cover price $53.00
Product Description: Dr Harold Shipman told his unsuspecting patients he was conducting blood tests as he injected them with a massive dose of heroin; they were dead within minutes. Before his trial, many assumed he was an over-zealous GP who went too far in providing comfort to dying patients...read more
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9781849530361 | Summersdale Pub Ltd, January 4, 2010, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: Dr Harold Shipman told his unsuspecting patients he was conducting blood tests as he injected them with a massive dose of heroin; they were dead within minutes.
Product Description: The healthcare system has turned the art and science of healing into big business, and many doctors can no longer devote the greater part of their working hours directly to patient care, faced as they are with reams of insurance- and legal-related paperwork, the constant threat of malpractice, and a burgeoning patient population...read more
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9780138587871, titled "The Study of Social Dialects in American English" | Prentice Hall, June 1, 1974, cover price $20.95 | also contains The Study of Social Dialects in American English | About this edition: Name inside, else unmarked
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9780763757335 | 1 edition (Jones & Bartlett Pub, April 8, 2009), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: The healthcare system has turned the art and science of healing into big business, and many doctors can no longer devote the greater part of their working hours directly to patient care, faced as they are with reams of insurance- and legal-related paperwork, the constant threat of malpractice, and a burgeoning patient population.
Product Description: An introduction to the history of Pakistan is set within the life story of a young man who became a doctor, moved to the US, and later went back to build a hospital for his countrymen. The discussion of politics, government policies, and popular movements is set within the drama of a young man going off to seek his fortune, start a family, and build a meaningful life in a fast-changing world...read more
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9780875866345 | Algora Pub, June 30, 2006, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: This is an introduction to the history of Pakistan set within the life story of a young man who became a doctor, moved to the US, and later went back to build a hospital for his countrymen.
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9780875866338 | Algora Pub, June 30, 2006, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: An introduction to the history of Pakistan is set within the life story of a young man who became a doctor, moved to the US, and later went back to build a hospital for his countrymen.
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9781594601491 | 1 edition (Carolina Academic Pr, November 30, 2005), cover price $50.00
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9780231072885 | Columbia Univ Pr, May 1, 1991, cover price $76.50
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9780231110938 | Columbia Univ Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $27.95
9780231072892 | Reprint edition (Columbia Univ Pr, May 1, 1992), cover price $29.50 | also contains The Persisting Osler IV: Selected Transactions of the American Osler Society, 2001-2010
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9780198581734 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 1985, cover price $50.00
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9780138587871 | Prentice Hall, June 1, 1974, cover price $20.95 | also contains Characteristics of Compassion: Portraits of Exemplary Physicians | About this edition: Name inside, else unmarked
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