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  • Nemesis

    by Anthony Riches ...
    Series Book 1 - The Protector
    Mickey Bale, a Met close protection officer, wants revenge on the mafia family who killed his sister. First in The Protector, a gripping British thriller series from Anthony Riches.'Nemesis is a full-throttle adventure' ANDY McNAB'Fast-moving... The Bill meets Jack Reacher' THE TIMES Thriller of the MonthThey killed his sister. Now he'll kill them all.Mickey Bale is an elite close protection ... Read more

    S$ 8.82 SGD

  • The Amazing Language of Medicine

    Understanding Medical Terms and Their Backstories

    by Robert B. Taylor ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book tells the intriguing and often colorful stories of the medical words we use. The origins of clinical and scientific terms can be found in Greek and Latin myths, in places such as jungles of Uganda and the islands of the Aegean Sea, in the names of medicine’s giants such as Hippocrates and Osler, and in some truly unlikely sources.In this book you will learn the answers to questions such ... Read more

    S$ 109.64 SGD

  • 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

    S$ 16.67 SGD

  • Experiment Eleven

    Deceit and Betrayal in the Discovery of the Cure for Tuberculosis

    by Peter Pringle ...
    The remarkable story of a wonder drug, a disputed Nobel Prize, and a patent that shaped modern medicine'The story of Experiment Eleven is amazing, as is its brilliant reporting, narrative verve and cool command of scientific ideas' Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind**'**A riveting and heartbreaking book' New ScientistIn 1943, Albert Schatz, a young American Ph.D. student working in p... ... Read more

    S$ 13.40 SGD

  • From Aspirin to Viagra

    Stories of the Drugs that Changed the World

    by Vladimir Marko ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    From Aspirin to Viagra, insulin to penicillin, and vaccines to vitamin supplements, drugs have become part of our everyday lives. This staggering global industry wasn’t born overnight; advancements in pharmaceutical science have been happening for a long while, over the course of decades and even centuries.This book tells the history of ten prominent substances and how they came to be common ... Read more

    S$ 54.05 SGD

  • Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes at a Glance

    by Andrew Lansdown, Miles Levy, Aled Rees ...
    Series series At a Glance
    Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes at a GlanceThe market‐leading at a Glance series is popular among healthcare students, and newly qualified practitioners for its concise and simple approach and excellent illustrations.Each bite‐sized chapter is covered in a double‐page spread with clear, easy‐to‐follow diagrams, supported by succinct explanatory text.Covering a wide range of topics, books in ... Read more

    S$ 59.99 SGD

  • Pandemics in Singapore, 1819–2022

    Lessons for the Age of COVID-19

    by Kah Seng Loh, Li Yang Hsu ...
    Series Book 19 - Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Singapore has faced many pandemics over the centuries, from plague, smallpox and cholera to influenza and novel coronaviruses. By examining how different governments responded, this book considers what we can learn from their experiences. Public health strategies in the city-state were often affected by issues of ethnicity and class, as well as failure to take heed of key learnings from previous ... Read more

    S$ 82.21 SGD

  • Introduction to US Health Policy

    The Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America

    by Donald A. Barr ...
    Expanded and updated, this is a new edition of an essential look at the history, structure, successes, and problems of the US health care system.The United States spends more on health care than any other country in the world. Yet the health of our society and our access to care are worse than in nearly all our peer countries. In the latest edition of Introduction to US Health Policy, Donald A. ... Read more

    S$ 74.22 SGD

  • Golden Holocaust

    Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition

    by Robert N. Proctor ...
    The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. In Golden Holocaust, Robert N. Proctor draws on reams of formerly-secret industry documents to explore how the cigarette came to be the most widely-used drug on the planet, with six trillion ... Read more

    S$ 37.05 SGD

  • Faster Cures

    Accelerating the Future of Health

    by Michael Milken ...
    Partly a memoir and partly a recent history of medicine, the definitive account of Michael Milken’s lifetime work to accelerate medicine's evolution from a dark past to a bright future.What if cleaning early-stage cancers from your body could become as routine as going to the dentist to clean your teeth, or if a single vaccine could protect you against multiple viruses, or if gene editing could ... Read more

    S$ 27.89 SGD

  • Medical Ethics For Dummies

    by Jane Runzheimer, Linda Johnson Larsen ...
    A practical, insightful guide to the moral and ethical standards of healthcareSucceeding in the healthcare field means more than just making a diagnosis and writing a prescription. Healthcare professionals are responsible for convincing patients and their family members of the best course of action and treatments to follow, while knowing how to make the right moral and ethical choices, and so much ... Read more

    S$ 22.99 SGD

  • This is Going to Hurt

    The bestselling secret diaries of a junior doctor, now a major BBC comedy-drama

    by Adam Kay ...
    **The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards, now a major BBC comedy-drama starring Ben Whishaw.‘Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry**Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and ... Read more

    S$ 17.54 SGD

  • Bioethics for Beginners

    60 Cases and Cautions from the Moral Frontier of Healthcare

    by Glenn McGee ...
    How far is too far? 60 cases illustrating modern bioethical dilemmasBioethics for Beginners maps the giant dilemmas posed by new technologies and medical choices, using 60 cases taken from our headlines, and from the worlds of medicine and science. This eminently readable book takes it one case at a time, shedding light on the social, economic and legal side of 21st century medicine while giving ... Read more

    S$ 39.99 SGD

  • YOU: The Owner's Manual

    An Insider’s Guide to the Body That Will Make You Healthier and Younger

    by Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., Michael F. Roizen, M.D. ...
    The #1 bestseller that gives YOU complete control over your body and your health.In this updated and expanded edition, America's favorite doctors, Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, discuss how YOU actually have control over your genes. Discover how diseases start and how they affect your body—as well as advice on how to prevent and beat conditions that threaten your quality of life.YOU: The Owner's ... Read more

    S$ 17.87 SGD

  • The Cutter Incident

    How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis

    by Paul A. Offit ...
    A history and analysis of the tragic 1955 American pharmaceutical disaster involving one company's polio vaccine.Vaccines have saved more lives than any other single medical advance. Yet today only four companies make vaccines, and there is a growing crisis in vaccine availability. Why has this happened? This remarkable book recounts for the first time a devastating episode in 1955 at Cutter ... Read more

    S$ 17.87 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Taming the Beloved Beast

    How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System

    by Daniel Callahan ...
    Why health care reform must tackle the escalating cost of medical technologyTechnological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care. Medical technology saves lives and relieves suffering, and is enormously popular with the public, profitable for doctors, and a source of great wealth for industry. Yet its costs are rising ... Read more

    S$ 32.14 SGD

  • You Bet Your Life

    From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation

    by Paul A Offit, MD ...
    **From one of America’s top physicians, a “riveting,” “fascinating,” and “timely” (Nature) history of risk in medicine **Every medical decision—whether to have chemotherapy, an X-ray, or surgery—is a risk, no matter which way you choose. In You Bet Your Life, physician Paul A. Offit argues that, from the first blood transfusions four hundred years ago to the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine, risk has ... Read more

    Was S$ 17.87 SGD Now S$ 2.79 SGD

  • A Practical Guide for Nurse Practitioner Faculty Using Simulation in Competency-Based Education

    by Pamela R. Jeffries, Pamela Slaven-Lee ...
    Authored by expert simulation researchers, educators, nurse practitioner faculty, and clinicians, A Practical Guide for Nurse Practitioner Faculty Using Simulation in Competency-Based Education looks at topics related to simulation design, development, and implementation for nurse practitioner and other graduate-level nursing programs. ... Read more

    S$ 53.07 SGD

  • The Myth of Normal

    Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

    by Gabor Maté MD ...
    **The instant New York Times bestsellerBy the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.**In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems ... Read more

    S$ 13.40 SGD

  • The Emperor of All Maladies

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee ...
    WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2011WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2011‘Profound, eloquent and searching’ SUNDAY TIMES‘Essential reading’ INDEPENDENT‘Masterly’ GUARDIAN‘Extraordinary’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWAN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY SO FAR</p... ... Read more

    S$ 11.22 SGD

  • No More Tears

    The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson

    by Gardiner Harris ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America’s oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies—from an award-winning investigative journalist“A damning portrait.”—Associated Press**“A page-turning drama that raises life-or-death questions about the world’s largest healthcare conglomerate.”—Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of ... Read more

    S$ 17.54 SGD

  • Being Mortal

    Medicine and What Matters in the End

    by Atul Gawande ...
    **#1 New York Times BestsellerIn Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending**Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine ... Read more

    S$ 14.27 SGD

  • If Disney Ran Your Hospital

    9 1/2 Things You Would Do Differently

    by Fred Lee ...
    The 9 1/2 principles in this highly personal and refreshingly written book will help any hospital team gain the extraordinary competitive advantage that comes from being seen as “the best” by their own employees, consumers, and community. It takes profound knowledge, not usually taught in business schools, to create and maintain an environment where people feel they are working with friends who ... Read more

    S$ 13.92 SGD

  • Choice Theory

    A New Psychology of Personal Freedom

    by William Glasser, M.D. ...
    Dr. William Glasser offers a new psychology that, if practiced, could reverse our widespread inability to get along with one another, an inability that is the source of almost all unhappiness.For progress in human relationships, he explains that we must give up the punishing, relationship–destroying external control psychology. For example, if you are in an unhappy relationship right now, he ... Read more

    S$ 17.87 SGD