Medicine Books

Four decades afterAnd the Band Played Oncreated an image of the AIDS epidemic that has survived in the public consciousness to this very day, mathematician Rebecca Culshaw is sounding the alarm that everything that iconic book told us about AIDS is...

The inspiring story of a young Mexican immigrant who became a renowned neurosurgeon.Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer. But not too long ago, he was...

The battle between Big Pharma and scientific integrityLarger-than-life, creative, and fiercely ambitious, Dr. Charlie Bennetthas a long history of revealing dangerous side effects of bestselling medicines. In 2006, his meta-analysis of existing data...

A practical and extensive resource guide by Mayo Clinic Press for women who want to understand and take charge of their own health, presented in short, easy-to-digest chapters.Women do not always receive the same healthcare as men. In fact, for too long...

For every man regardless of hair pattern, shoe size or IPA preference Man Overboard! by Mayo Clinic Press helps you understand your health and live your best life with this humorous but authoritative manual for the aging male. Let's face it, guys: we...

Modern science has shown that the widely held beliefs of clinicians about urinary tract infection (UTI) are wrong. A large body of meticulous, rigorous data, from different centres around the world makes this point. How can it be that doctors continue to...

The single most important lesson we hope you will derive from this book is to always keep it simple because, in trauma surgery, the simple stuff works. This book will help you take a badly wounded patient to the operating room, organize yourself and...

What common condition can be treated with cow dung? How do crushed oystershells ease heartburn? Can eels cure deafness? And how do you stop a stubborn case of the hiccups? If someone was struck down by illness or injury in the late eighteenth century,...

A surprising investigation of a scientific instrument long at the pulse of medicine. This book explores the colourful past, present and future of an instrument that is, quite literally, close to our hearts. The stethoscope has become the symbol of...

In this panoramic and up-to-date account, we learn how the Black Death, smallpox, the Spanish flu and other great epidemics have led to enormous sufferings and mass death, as well as contributing to the fall of empires and changing the course of history...

A magisterial account by Roy Porter of representations of the body in health, disease and deathIn this historical tour de force, now available in B-format paperback, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in health, disease and...

'We had hoped that we lived in a world that would rally in the face of a common threat. Instead, we found that the collective good is abandoned for the economic and political benefit of a handful of people, and nationalist myths of exceptionalism rob...

This book may offer a cautionary tale in the age of Covid-19. The narratives we shape around disease in society are so often about politics, and the competing versions of leprosy eradication's story are no exception.In one telling, the extra-budgetary...

A sweeping biography of the visionary behind bone marrow transplantation and the story of the diseases cured by Don Thomas's discovery.In the last half of the twentieth century, Thomas himself discovered a cure for every marrow-based disease-like...

WITH A FOREWORD BY SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEEA renowned cardiologist and Harvard professor spells outthe future digital shift of medicine - and how it will impact the lives not only of patients and health care professionals but of all humans.Future care is...

A browsable, illustrated one-stop shop for reliable and updated information on the signs, symptoms, tests, treatment and prevention of most common health conditions.Allergies, breast cancer, hyperthyroidism, PTSD, shin splints - when you've got questions...

What if we could help loved ones misusing opioids and support them as they seek treatment?In Ending the Crisis, addiction medicine specialist Dr. Holly Geyer goes beyond the science of addiction to offer those struggling with opioids a real solution...

How censorship turned a terrible disease into an assault on rightsAs COVID-19 spread around the world, so did government censorship.The Infodemiclays bare not just old-fashioned censorship, but also the mechanisms of a modern brand of "censorship through...

A suspenseful, authoritative account of how the battle against a mid-century polio epidemic sparked a revolution in medical care.Americans knew polio as the 'summer plague'. In countries further North, however, the virus arrived later...

Two world-leading doctors reveal the true state of modern medicine and how doctors are letting their patients down.In Hippocrasy, rheumatologist and epidemiologist Rachelle Buchbinder and orthopaedic surgeon Ian Harris argue that the benefits of medical...

COVID-19 has resulted in changes none of us could have imagined, but what happens next?If you had asked most people a year ago, they would have told you there was no way that school children could shift overnight to online learning; that it was...

A woman's innocuous cold symptoms mask a debilitating rare tick infection. A young man develops shingles then suffers blinding head pain later in life.  After years of frustration, a family eradicates head lice forever. Infectious...

Carte Blanche is the alarming tale of how the right of Americans to say "no" to risky medical research is eroding at a time when we are racing to produce a vaccine and treatments for Covid-19. This medical right that we have long taken for granted was...

Unlike other books on epidemics, which either focus on the science behind how microbes cause disease or tell first-person accounts of one particular disease, Epidemics: The Impact of Germs and Their Power over Humanity takes a holistic approach to...

The Second-Leading Killer in the USA Shouldn't Be This Deadly Written by Bruce Ratner and Adam Bonislawski, ....Catching cancer early remains the single best way to combat a disease that is the second-leading killer in both the US and worldwide. But the...

This book is a detailed and a thorough review of recovery from cosmetic surgery. The book has chapters on essential information that will help those interested in the topic. The book has very specific instructions to guide you for safe and complete...

"Understanding COVID" reminds people of the core fact that makes the Scientific Method possible: Science requires the ability to question. Experimentation and questioning have always been the foundations of science, yet in our modern era it seems...

In a riveting portrait of the world's largest HIV/AIDS medical-care provider, award-winning journalist Patrick Range McDonald reveals AIDS Healthcare Foundation's unlikely rise from a feisty grassroots organization during the height of 1980s AIDS crisis...

This book details out the esoteric history of biological warfare in a way that no other book has done, based on only official records, documents, science and medical journals, former intelligence officers, and more. The history of this war goes much...

As the number of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders grows each year, new discoveries and controversies arise. Andrew Wakefield explores many of these in his thorough investigation of the recent trial case of the "Arizona 5," which...

"FIGHT BACK by Chauncey Crandall M.D. You want to get a copy of it." -Pat Robertson, 700 ClubFIGHT BACK! WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CORONAVIRUS NOW!UNDERSTAND THE DISEASE AND KNOW THE SYMPTOMS TO LOOK FOR!HOW TO PREVENT INFECTION!WHAT TO DO IF YOU GET...

In this strident, necessary, meticulously researched book Michael Fine uses the COVID-19 pandemic and many other examples to show the costly failure of the American health care system in bold relief.Hospitals, insurance companies, Big Pharma,...

The first-ever guide to harnessing the power of collagen with food and supplements. The formation of collagen by your body is absolutely essential for the rejuvenation of skin, hair, nails, bones and joints. More importantly, collagen gives these tissues...

Parkinson's Disease, a disorder of the central nervous system affects one in every 100 persons over 60, with 200,000 to 3 million cases each year in the US alone. A breakthrough set of mind/body techniques, Goodbye Parkinson's, Hello...

For thousands of years, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has helped countless people with their health, and is still widely sought after today-especially by those all over the world who are intrigued by natural healing and healthcare. The culture...

Obesity, age-spots, dark face, stinking mouth and constipation. Does your body release various signals showing the harm to your health? In fact, these are all caused by the toxin gradually accumulated in your body, the toxin which may further lead to...

Combines the best that Eastern and Western medicine can offer in the understanding, treatment, and prevention of digestive conditions, diabetes, and obesity. All the while, boosting your immune system!True Wellness for Your Gut combines the best...

Combines the best that Eastern and Western medicine can offer in the understanding, treatment, and prevention of heart disease and hypertension. Over a decade has passed since Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Caldwell Esselstyn Jr.) and Energy...

Now that the health community is in a state of reflection, how do we put the lessons learned into practice?As we step back to examine the worldwide response to the COVID-19 pandemic, now is the time to think about how to raise the bar for our response to...

From prescribing the "rest cure" to diagnosing hysteria, the medical profession has consistently treated women as weak and pathological. Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English's concise history of the sexual politics of medical practices shows how this...

The follow-up to the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology The Remedy: new ways of imagining what LGBTQ+ health care should look like.What if you could trust in getting the health care you need in ways that felt good and helped you thrive? What if the...

This is the first publication to investigate the rise of alcohol as a medical problem within a variety of countries and political and cultural contexts.The medicalisation of alcohol use has become a prominent discourse that guides policy makers and...

Examines the complexity and the humanity of the opioid epidemicAmerica's opioid epidemic continues to ravage families and communities, despite intense media coverage, federal legislation, criminal prosecutions, and harm reduction efforts to prevent...

One of America's top doctors rips the Band-Aid off to expose the American health care systemLegislation written by drug and insurance companies, malpractice by corrupt and incompetent doctors, misguided and dishonest medical policy-the reality may be...

Brian Boyle tells a personal story of his fight back from near death after a horrific automobile accident. He focuses on his experience as a patient who, while in a two-month long medically induced coma, was unable to move or talk to anyone around him,...

A David and Goliath battle for truthA specialist in GM foods and pesticides, the biologist Gilles-ric Seralini has studied their toxicity and effects on people's health for many years. In September 2012, for the first time in a major scientific journal...

Join a high-powered lawyer on his fight for life against brain cancer and his continuing efforts to remainForever Optimistic.At age fifty-five, Robert S. Brams, a former college athlete, was in perfect health. Bob was blessed with a beautiful family,...

Enter the trenches of the bloodiest battles you've never heard of: the Vaccine Wars.Professor Christopher A Shaw discovered, after a deep-diveliterature search on aluminum impacts on humans and animals, that aluminum hydroxide, an adjuvant in the anthrax...