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  • Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology, Third Edition

    A Practical, Illustrated Guide to the Human Body for Students and Practitioners--Clear and accessible, with study tips and full-color visual aids

    by Ruth Hull ...
    A full-color, easy-to-understand introduction to anatomy, physiology, and pathology that's designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the human body without overwhelming readers.Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology is the ideal introduction on the topic for students of complementary and physical therapies. Designed for ease of learning both as an independent study resource and in the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • 疼痛帝國:薩克勒家族製藥王朝秘史

    Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

    Series series 黑盒子
    2021年歐巴馬總統最愛書籍巴美列.捷福獎非虛構寫作獎《紐約時報》暢銷書《時代》雜誌百大好書亞馬遜近一萬讀者4.7顆星好評Goodreads逾七萬讀者4.6顆星好評  因慈善事業聞名的薩克勒家族,利用鎮定劑煩寧(Valium)積累大量財富,其聲譽卻因疼始康定(OxyContin)而毀於一旦。本書出自《什麼都別說》(Say Nothing)一書的暢銷得獎作者之手,勾勒出薩克勒家族三代宏大且具毀滅性的故事。  薩克勒家族的歷史充滿戲劇性的情節──巴洛克式的私人生活、激烈的財產糾紛、會議室中的拳腳相向、光彩奪目的藝術收藏、馬基維利式的法庭謀略,以及利用金錢來美化名聲,並擊潰那些較無權勢之人。  許多知名機構的牆上都飾有薩克勒家族之名,如哈佛大學、大都會藝... ... Read more

    $15.51 USD

  • No More Tears

    The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson

    **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

    $12.69 USD

  • The Family That Couldn't Sleep

    A Medical Mystery

    by D. T. Max ...
    For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua New Guinea, a primitive tribe is nearly obliterated by a sickness whose chief symptom is uncontrollable laughter. Across Europe, millions of sheep rub their fleeces ... Read more

    $5.29 USD

  • 細胞之歌:探索醫學和新人類的未來

    The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

    「我們終歸要回到細胞」我們得要了解細胞,才能了解人體。我們需要它們,才能了解醫學。但最基本的是,我們需要細胞的故事,來講述生命和我們自己的故事。普立茲獎得主、《萬病之王》《基因》作者——辛達塔.穆克吉最新作品,本書是一部生命基石的歷史,交織了他擔任醫師的生涯。《細胞之歌》融合了尖端研究、無可挑剔的嚴謹學術、勇敢無畏的報導,和流暢優美的散文,形成百科全書式的研究,讀起來就如文學作品般扣人心弦。~《歐普拉日報》(Oprah Daily)◆ 2023年美國PROSE Awards生物與生命科學卓越獎◆ 2023年肖托誇獎◆《經濟學人》、《歐普拉日報》、紐約公共圖書館等評為《紐約時報》著名圖書和年度最佳書籍本書談的是細胞的故事,是發現包括人類在內,所有生物體都是由這些「基本粒子」構成的記述。這是關於這些自主的生命單位——組織、器官和器官系統合作,有條不紊地累積,能夠促成深奧形式的生理功能:免疫 ... Read more

    $15.07 USD

  • An Anthropologist on Mars

    Seven Paradoxical Tales

    by Oliver Sacks ...
    THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NBC SERIES BRILLIANT MINDS • From the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat • Fascinating portraits of neurological disorder in which men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality.Here are seven detailed narratives of ... Read more

    $5.29 USD

  • Applied Kinesiology, Revised Edition

    A Training Manual and Reference Book of Basic Principles and Practices

    The revised edition of the best-selling book on Applied Kinesiology, Applied Kinesiology, Revised Edition introduces a diagnostic method that uses manual muscle testing to assess the body's "Triad of Health"--structure, chemistry, and psyche. To perform a muscle test, the practitioner applies light pressure that the client then resists. If the client cannot resist the pressure, the muscle "tests ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Death in Hamburg

    Society and Politics in the Cholera Years

    "A tremendous book, the biography of a city which charts the multifarious pathways from bacilli to burgomaster." -Roy Porter, London Review of BooksWhy were nearly 10,000 people killed in six weeks in Hamburg, while most of Europe was left almost unscathed? As Richard J. Evans explains, it was largely because the town was a “free city” within Germany that was governed by the “English” ideals of ... Read more

    $5.29 USD

  • Baba's Kitchen Medicines

    Folk Remedies of Ukrainian Settlers in Western Canada

    by Michael Mucz ...
    Michael Mucz's prolonged primary research into Ukrainian-Canadian folk history culminates in Baba's Kitchen Medicines. This book bursts with the cultural memory of pioneering folk from Canada's prairieland. From fever to frostbite, this incomparable compendium of tinctures, poultices, salves, decoctions, infusions, plasters, and tonics will fascinate and often mortify readers from all walks of ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • How to Survive a Pandemic

    A vital, timely text on the viruses that cause pandemics and how to face them, by the New York Times bestselling author of How Not to Die.From tuberculosis to bird flu and HIV to coronavirus, these infectious diseases share a common origin story: human interaction with animals. Otherwise known as zoonotic diseases for their passage from animals to humans, these pathogens—both pre-existing ones and ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • 餐桌上的偽科學:加州大學醫學院教授破解上百種健康謠言和深入人心的醫學迷思

    by 林慶順 ...
    Series Book 1 - 餐桌上的偽科學
    *醫學院教授化身鍵盤柯南,為網友解開各種醫學迷思*各種食材致癌傳言、健康假新聞一一破解*揭發維他命補充劑、酵素、益生菌、膠原蛋白等等營養補充品的世紀真相*以輕鬆幽默的語法,為你解讀最新權威醫學期刊和論文*更新你的營養資訊,補充醫學常識,培養網路保健謠言的終身抵抗力用最新科學論文終止長輩Line群組的各式謠言我們每天接收各種食物和養生保健的訊息多如牛毛,從長輩Line群組的危言聳聽,到電視新聞的專家見解,還有出自(或假藉)營養師、醫師和作家之口的資訊,連電視和報紙的報導也難分真假,更有甚者還能集結成書,深入人心。一般讀者因為沒有受過科學訓練,無法分辨哪些可信,哪些完全是誤傳或捏造,在不知情中可能還會加速傳播錯誤訊息。擁有40年醫學研究經驗,在加州大學舊金山分校任教,並擔任超過60間醫學期刊評審的林慶順教授,感於太多保健資訊被誤傳或是引用了過於陳舊的資料來源,所以在退休之後 ... Read more

    $8.33 USD

  • Life in the Fasting Lane

    How to Make Intermittent Fasting a Lifestyle—and Reap the Benefits of Weight Loss and Better Health

    Instant New York Times Bestseller“A highly readable, state-of-the-art book describing all one needs to know to follow a safe and effective fasting program for optimizing personal health. Be warned. It is a revolutionary book. It might just save your life.”—Tim Noakes, emeritus professor and author of Lore of Running and Real Food on TrialTake the guesswork (and fear) out of fasting with real-life ... Read more

    $18.49 USD

  • Oxford Handbook of General Practice

    Series series Oxford Medical Handbooks
    The well-loved Oxford Handbook of General Practice is a lifeline for busy GPs, medical students, and healthcare professionals. With hands-on advice from experienced practitioners, this essential handbook covers the entire breadth and depth of general practice in small sections that can be located, read, and digested in seconds. Now in its fifth edition, the Handbook has been fully revised to ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The Origins of AIDS

    It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experiences working as a physician in a bush hospital in Zaire, Jacques Pépin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in central Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • 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

    $10.29 USD

  • Witches, Midwives, & Nurses (Second Edition)

    A History of Women Healers

    Series series Contemporary Classics
    Witches, Midwives, and Nurses examines how women-led healing was delegitimized to make way for patriarchy, capitalism, and the emerging medical industry.As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of healthcare in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work.First published by the Feminist Press in ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • Cash Cow

    How the maternal body became a global commodity – and the hidden costs for women

    by Alev Scott ...
    *A Radio 4 Book of the Week*'Captivating, mind-boggling and deeply disturbing' – Maureen Freely'Humane, thoughtful and urgent — this book will make you think, make you laugh, make you cry, but also make you burn with rage' – Dr Mary WellesleyA thought-provoking deep dive into the global fertility industry and the commodification of the maternal body__________Should surrogacy be a... ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Pediatric Cardiology Board Review

    Designed to effectively prepare pediatric cardiology fellows and practitioners for board certification and recertification, Pediatric Cardiology Board Review, Third Edition, provides easy access to more than 1,200 board-style questions. Based on the popular Mayo Clinic Pediatric Cardiology Review course and edited by Drs. Benjamin W. Eidem, Bryan C. Cannon, Jonathan N. Johnson, Anthony C. Chang, ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • The Black Death

    A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic

    “A magisterial history” (The Guardian) of humanity’s greatest natural disaster—the Black Death—that reveals the true global impact and terrible human cost of this calamity, from the renowned author of The Crusades and The Greatest Knight.“Terrific—and truly terrifying. Thomas Asbridge puts a human face—or rather multiple faces—on the Black Death.”—Eric Cline, author of 1177 B.C.In the mid ... Read more

    $12.69 USD

  • Healing Politics

    A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic

    A memoir about restoring the health of our people, and our democracy, from a physician and "one of the brightest young stars" of the progressive movement (Sen. Bernie Sanders).A child of immigrants, Abdul El-Sayed grew up feeling a responsibility to help others. He threw himself into the study of medicine and excelled—winning a Rhodes Scholarship, earning two advanced degrees, and landing a tenure ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Prince of Medicine

    Galen in the Roman Empire

    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. Susan Mattern's The Prince of Medicine offers the first authoritative biography in English of this brilliant, ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • 餐桌上的偽科學2:頂尖醫學期刊評審用科學證據解答50個最流行的健康迷思

    by 林慶順 ...
    Series Book 2 - 餐桌上的偽科學
    *作者擔任超過知名60間期刊評審(含世界排名第一的新英格蘭醫學期刊),發表近200篇醫學論文*任職加州大學舊金山分校醫學院教授,從事醫學研究40年*個人網站「科學的養生保健」發表超過600篇基於醫學論文的謠言破解文章,十數家媒體爭相轉載*以輕鬆幽默的語法,為你解讀最新權威醫學期刊和論文*《餐桌上的偽科學**》出版後不斷再刷,售出簡體&韓文版權,版稅將捐出贊助台灣兒童及弱勢團體***** 專業推薦:**王道還(生物人類學者)、黃雲慶醫師(嘉義長庚紀念醫院泌尿科主任)、黃振僑醫師(臺北醫學大學附設醫院乳房甲狀腺外科)、黃峻偉醫師(糖尿病筆記)、張心宇(壹電視主持人/製作人)這是一本醫學版的謠言終結者,從事醫學研究40年的加州大學舊金山分校醫學院教授林慶順,退休之後致力於保健偽科學的破... ... Read more

    $9.31 USD

  • We've Got You Covered

    Rebooting American Health Care

    From a MacArthur Genius MIT economist and pre-eminent Stanford economist comes a lively and provocative proposal for American health insurance reformFew of us need convincing that the American health insurance system needs reform. But many of the existing proposals focus on expanding one relatively successful piece of the system or building in piecemeal additions. These proposals miss the point.As ... Read more

    $5.29 USD

  • The Myth of Normal

    Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

    **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

    $10.79 USD