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  • The Silent Patient

    The record-breaking, multimillion copy Sunday Times bestselling thriller and TikTok sensation

    by Alex Michaelides ...
    - THE RECORD-BREAKING, MULTIMILLION COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION -Discover the #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling thriller with a jaw-dropping twist that everyone is talking about - as seen on TikTok. Soon to be a major film.Alicia Berenson lived a seemingly perfect life until one day six years ago.When she shot her husband in the head five times.Since th... ... Read more

    5,49 €

  • The Gene

    The story of the gene: our past, our future, ourselves.

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee ...
    An epic, dazzling history of the idea that defines us.From Gregor Mendel’s pea plants to the discovery of DNA and the CRISPR revolution in gene-editing, The Gene tells the story of how we came to understand heredity – to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans – land how that knowledge now allows us to rewrite life itself. Siddhartha Mukherjee combines scientific insight with ... Read more

    11,99 €

  • The Real Anthony Fauci

    Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health

    by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ...
    Series series Children’s Health Defense
    #7 New York Times Bestseller#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller#1 Amazon Charts Bestseller#1 USA Today Bestseller#1 Publisher's Weekly Bestseller20 Weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List</str... ... Read more

    17,18 €

  • An overview of TCI & TIVA

    by Anthony Absalom, Michel Struys ...
    An Overview of TCI and TIVA was written by two of the leading lights in anaesthetic pharmacology. It is an invaluable source of information on the practice of total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA) with or without target-controlled infusion (TCI) technology.In this long-awaited third edition of their popular book they have maintained the small size while thoroughly updating it to include recent ... Read more

    14,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Medical Ethics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Tony Hope, Michael Dunn ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The issue of medical ethics, from thorny moral questions such as euthanasia and the morality of killing to political questions such as the fair distribution of health care resources, is rarely out of today's media. This area of ethics covers a wide range of issues, from mental health to reproductive medicine, as well as including management issues such as resource allocation, and has proven to ... Read more

    7,27 €

  • The Doctor

    by Robert Icke ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Very freely adapting Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler, Robert Icke has written a gripping moral thriller that uses the lens of medical ethics to examine urgent questions of faith, belief, and scientific rationality.How do we defend the "truth" when no one agrees what it is and many have reason to undermine it? ... Read more

    10,80 €

  • A Theology of Health

    Wholeness and Human Flourishing

    by Tyler J. VanderWeele ...
    While the health of the body can be defined by its functioning parts and systems, the health of the person is more complex. To flourish, we need to understand health in the context of God’s intent.A Theology of Health presents a Christian understanding of the very concept of health, both the health of the body and the health of the person. Preeminent scholar Tyler J. VanderWeele argues that health ... Read more

    2,72 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood On My Hands - A Surgeon At War

    by Craig Jurisevic ...
    An Australian surgeon's extraordinary story of courage and conflict. ... Read more

    7,52 €

  • A Bitter Remedy

    A totally compelling historical mystery

    by Alis Hawkins ...
    Series Book 1 - Oxford Mysteries
    Amongst the scholars, secrets and soporifics of Victorian Oxford, the truth can be a bitter pill to swallowJesus College, Oxford, 1881. An undergraduate is found dead at his lodgings and the medical examination reveals some shocking findings. When the young man's guardian blames the college for his death and threatens a scandal, Basil Rice, a Jesus College fellow with a secret to hide, is forced ... Read more

    5,99 €

  • Bad Science

    by Ben Goldacre ...
    Ben Goldacre’s wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations.Since 2003 Dr Ben Goldacre has been exposing dodgy medical data in his popular Guardian column. In this eye-opening book he takes on the MMR hoax and misleading cosmetics ads, acupuncture and homeopathy ... Read more

    7,94 €

  • Malpractice

    A Neurosurgeon Reveals How Our Health-Care System Puts Patients at Risk

    by Lawrence Schlachter, MD ...
    In 1991, the Institute of Medicine released a landmark report, which revealed that as many as 98,000 patients were dying every year owing to avoidable medical error. More recent research indicates that estimate was, if anything, a drastic understatement of the patient-safety epidemic in the US health care system.In Malpractice, neurosurgeon and attorney Dr. Larry Schlachter makes a case that most ... Read more

    19,47 €

  • The Spirit Ambulance

    Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand

    by Scott Stonington ...
    Series Book 49 - California Series in Public Anthropology
    The Spirit Ambulance is a journey into decision-making at the end of life in Thailand, where families attempt to craft good deaths for their elders in the face of clashing ethical frameworks, from a rapidly developing universal medical system, to national and global human-rights politics, to contemporary movements in Buddhist metaphysics. Scott Stonington’s gripping ethnography documents how Thai ... Read more

    12,92 €

  • Zwei offene Briefe an Dr. J. Spaeth, Professor der Geburtshilfe an der k. k.…

    by J. Semmelweis ...
    Entdecken Sie die bahnbrechenden Gedanken eines medizinischen Pioniers, die die Welt der Geburtshilfe revolutionierten!In "Zwei offene Briefe an Dr. J. Spaeth" entfaltet Dr. J. Ph. Semmelweis seine visionären Ideen, die die medizinische Praxis für immer veränderten. Tauchen Sie ein in die leidenschaftlichen Argumente eines Mannes, der gegen den Strom schwamm, um das Leben unzähliger Mütter zu ... Read more

    9,99 €

  • Actes de l'Assemblée constitutive et de la 1re conférence de l'Union internationale pour l'éducation sanitaire populaire

    Paris, 29-30-31 mai 1951

    by Collectif ...
    Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine. ... Read more

    6,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Essay on the Effects of Opium, Considered as a Poison

    by John Awsiter ...
    An Essay on the Effects of Opium, Considered as a Poison is a seminal medical treatise first published in 1786 by George Young, a Scottish physician. This comprehensive work delves into the physiological and pathological consequences of opium use, examining its role as both a medicinal agent and a dangerous poison. Drawing on clinical observations, case studies, and contemporary medical literature ... Read more

    19,99 €

  • A handbook of invalid cooking

    by Boland ...
    A Handbook of Invalid Cooking, authored by Mary A. Boland and first published in 1893, is a comprehensive guide dedicated to the preparation of nourishing and easily digestible meals for the sick and convalescent. Drawing from her experience as a nurse at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boland offers practical advice and detailed recipes tailored to the unique dietary needs of invalids. The ... Read more

    19,99 €

  • L'étanger

    Ou le pari de l'autre

    by Tobie Nathan ...
    « Qui veut connaître l’étranger, celui qu’il ne connaît pas, doit avoir fait l’expérience de la rencontre avec un invisible non humain, faute de quoi il errera dans un monde regorgeant de semblables. »Accueillir l’étranger ne relève pas de l’amour du prochain, de la bonté ou d’une humanité bien pensante, c’est une expérience radicale et existentielle de l’altérité. ... Read more

    11,99 €

  • Ética en el uso de las imágenes clínicas

    Edited by Fritz Eduardo Gempeler Rueda, Lilian Torregrosa Almonacid ...
    "Ante nuevas realidades en la atención médica aparecen también nuevas responsabilidades éticas. En consecuencia, la nueva realidad del uso masivo de tecnologías —que incluyen la difusión de datos e imágenes clínicas en la práctica médica— exige un análisis cuidadoso de sus implicaciones y el planteamiento de principios éticos que sustenten la construcción de políticas y normas al respecto y ... Read more

    4,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Treatment of Hay Fever

    By rosin-weed, ichthyol and faradic electricity. With a discussion of the old theory of gout and the new theory of anaphylaxis

    by Laidlaw ...
    The Treatment of Hay Fever By Rosin-Weed, Ichthyol and Faradic Electricity is a comprehensive medical treatise authored by George Frederick Laidlaw, M.D., exploring innovative approaches to the management and alleviation of hay fever, a condition that has long perplexed both patients and practitioners. Drawing upon his clinical experience and the latest scientific research of his era, Dr. Laidlaw ... Read more

    19,99 €

  • Chaque visage a une histoire

    by Laurent Lantieri, Laurent Lantieri, Alexandre Duyck ...
    Depuis l’enfance, Pascal a le visage déformé par la maladie. Il ne rêve que d’une chose : ne plus attirer les regards dans la rue et mener une vie « normale » ; travailler, s’amuser, aimer « comme tout le monde ». Changer de visage pour changer de vie, c’est ce à quoi aspirent, comme lui, des dizaines de patients qui n’ont plus qu’un espoir : la greffe. Chaque visage a une histoire, que le ... Read more

    13,99 €

  • Psychiatry and Philosophy

    by Erwin W. Straus, Maurice Natanson, Henri Ey ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The three essays reprinted in this book were first published in 1963 as individual chapters of a psychiatric treatise entitled Psychiatrie der Gegen wart (Psychiatry of the Present Day). The editors, W. H. GRUHLE (Bonn), R. JUNG (Freiburg/Br. ), W. MAYER-GROSS (Birmingham, England), M. MUL LER (Bern, Switzerland), had not planned an encyclopedic presentation; they did not intend to present a ... Read more

    47,69 €

  • Muslim Medical Ethics

    From Theory to Practice

    Edited by Jonathan E. Brockopp, Thomas Eich ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Religion
    A timely exploration of balancing Islamic heritage with contemporary medical and health concernsMuslim Medical Ethics draws on the work of historians, health-care professionals, theologians, and social scientists to produce an interdisciplinary view of medical ethics in Muslim societies and of the impact of caring for Muslim patients in non-Muslim societies. Edited by Jonathan E. Brockopp and ... Read more

    22,14 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The London Medical Gazette

    December 27, 1828. Being a Weekly Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences

    by Various ...
    The London Medical Gazette, December 27, 1828, stands as a significant historical publication, offering a comprehensive weekly journal dedicated to medicine and the collateral sciences during the early 19th century. This particular issue provides a fascinating window into the medical knowledge, practices, and debates of its time, capturing the dynamic evolution of healthcare and scientific inquiry ... Read more

    19,99 €

  • Médecine coloniale et grandes endémies en Afrique, 1900-1960

    Lèpre, trypanosomiase humaine et onchocercose

    by Jean-Paul Bado, Jean Copans ...
    À la fin du XIXe siècle, l’Europe, qui connaît une grande expansion, mène en Afrique des guerres de conquête. À la même époque, la médecine occidentale est en plein essor, avec l’usage croissant du microscope et les découvertes de Pasteur, de ses devanciers et de ses rivaux. La situation sanitaire en Afrique conquise est déplorable. Elle va s’aggraver avec les bouleversements induits par la ... Read more

    10,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus