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The Dramas of Hospital Life
Henry Meyer
Paperback - $18.95
All the dramas we read make us aware of what a patient has to endure, whether the situation ends in death or they become an invalid or mentally unstable. In reading about the dramas of hospital life, we are also us aware of how blessed we are to be a ...
The Making of a Surgeon in the 21st Century
Craig A. Miller
Hardcover - $47.95
They literally hold our lives in their hands. They are the most highly-trained professional in the rarefied world of modern medicine, often spending a decade or more honing their healing skills. Although they learn in the ultra-high tech hospitals an ...
Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age
David B. Morris
Paperback - $50.95
"Morris weaves a seamless web from Nietzsche to Warhol, convincing us that postmodernism is not a trendy label but a necessary context for talk about health and illness, medicine and suffering. . . . Anyone who wants to understand why people get sick ...
Surgical Memoirs and Other Essays
James G. Mumford
Paperback - $53.95
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional ...
Intensive Care : A Doctor's Journal
John F. Murray
Paperback - $41.95
"This is an excellent book, full of this eminent doctor's expertise, and his never-failing compassion for his ramshackle alcoholic and drug-addicted patients. San Francisco General Hospital is famous for its care of the disadvantaged who are not want ...
What's Past Is Prologue : The Personal Stories of Women in Science at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Eric G. Neilson
Hardcover - $41.95
One doctor's career began more than half a century ago, during World War II; another's began only recently, near the start of the new millennium. One scientist was a Kentucky farm girl who had never dreamed of going to college; another survived the c ...
The Unity of Mistakes : A Phenomenological Interpretation of Medical Work
Marianne A. Paget
Paperback - $43.95
Long considered a landmark text on the nature of medical errors, Marianne Paget's "The Unity of Mistakes is now available to a new generation of readers. Paget--who herself died because of a medical error--argued that mistakes are an intrinsic part o ...