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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Deepest Well

    Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity

    “An extraordinary, eye-opening book.” —PeopleNational Health Information Awards winner“A rousing wake-up call. . . . This highly engaging, provocative book prove[s] beyond a reasonable doubt that millions of lives depend on us finally coming to terms with the long-term consequences of childhood adversity and toxic stress.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowDr. Nadine Burke Harris was ... Read more

    $12.19 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

  • The Contagion of Liberty

    The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution

    This LA Times Book Prize finalist is a timely and fascinating account of the raucous public demand for smallpox inoculation during the American Revolution and the origin of vaccination in the United States.Finalist of the LA Times Book Prize for History by the LA Times, Winner of the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize by the Massachusetts Historical SocietyThe Revolutionary War broke out during a ... Read more

    Was $26.29 USD Now $20.49 USD

  • Psychotherapy

    An Introduction for Psychiatry Residents and Other Mental Health Trainees

    Many psychiatry residents and other mental health trainees begin their careers as psychotherapists with a mixture of enthusiasm and apprehension: enthusiasm at the prospect of using only words and actions to help someone in distress; apprehension about whether they are capable of doing it. In his latest book, Phillip R. Slavney helps these students get started by discussing such fundamental issues ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • A Disease Apart

    Leprosy in the Modern World

    by Tony Gould ...
    This fascinating cultural and medical history of leprosy enriches our understanding of a still-feared biblical disease.It is a condition shrouded for centuries in mystery, legend, and religious fanaticism. Societies the world over have vilified its sufferers: by the sheer accident of mycobacterial infection, they have been condemned to exile and imprisonment—illness itself considered evidence of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Ancient Medicine

    From Mesopotamia to Rome

    This book by Laura Zucconi is an accessible introductory text to the practice and theory of medicine in the ancient world. In contrast to other works that focus heavily on Greece and Rome, Zucconi's Ancient Medicine covers a broader geographical and chronological range. The world of medicine in antiquity consisted of a lot more than Hippocrates and Galen.Zucconi applies historical and ... Read more

    $102.49 USD

  • Drugs and the FDA

    Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust

    How the FDA was shaped by public health crises and patient advocacy, told against a background of the contentious hearings on the breast cancer drug Avastin.Food and Drug Administration approval for COVID-19 vaccines and the controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm made headlines, but few of us know much about how the agency does its work. Why is the FDA the ultimate US authority on a drug’s safety ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain

    From the author of How Emotions Are Made, a myth-busting primer on the brain in the tradition of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.Have you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett demystify that big gray blob between your ears. In seven short essays (plus a bite-sized story about how brains evolved), this slim, ... Read more

    $11.29 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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