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Leadership Lessons from History
A Study Guide Written for Physicians & Other Healthcare Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
This is a book that you can read in one sitting. This also is a book that you will not soon forget. One part history lesson and one part storytelling, it combines humor and personal experiences to reveal how even the best of leaders and managers can flub upor excel! Dont you make the same mistakes!...
A Cretan Healer's Handbook in the Byzantine Tradition
Text, Translation and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
In 1930 the Cretan healer Nikolaos Konstantinos Theodorakis of Meronas re-copied a notebook containing medical lore passed down through his family over generations. The present volume offers an edition of this notebook together with an English translation, the first of its kind. It belongs to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Today, a prosthesis is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, generally designed and assembled according to the individual’s appearance and functional needs with a view to being both as unobtrusive and as useful as possible. In classical antiquity, however, this was not necessarily...
Summary and Analysis of Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Based on the Book by Luke Dittrich
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Patient H.M. tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Luke Dittrich’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
This...
Quackery
A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
What won’t we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth?
Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine—yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison—was...
Dementia Reimagined
Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
The cultural and medical history of dementia and Alzheimer's disease by a leading psychiatrist and bioethicist who urges us to turn our focus from cure to care.
Despite being a physician and a bioethicist, Tia Powell wasn't prepared to address the challenges she faced when her grandmother,...
Blood and Guts
A History of Surgery
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously un dreamed of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress. In Blood and Guts, veteran science writer Richard Hollingham weaves a compelling...
Royal Poxes & Potions
Royal Doctors and Their Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
In this book, acclaimed biographer Raymond Lamont-Brown casts light on a previously overlooked aspect of the monarchy. From the instigation of the royal doctor in medieval times, to the present day, the tales of secrets, murder, medical incompetence, and revolutionary operations revealed in this book...
by Hugh L. Moffet M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
A Diffident Doctor tells one doctor's personal story, with all its ups and downs, from childhood to retirement. Beginning in a small Illinois town, to a Harvard College scholarship, to medical school at Yale, it describes his research in virology and the teaching and consulting in pediatric infectious...
Generic
The Unbranding of Modern Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Generic drugs are now familiar objects in clinics, drugstores, and households around the world. We like to think of these tablets, capsules, patches, and ointments as interchangeable with their brand-name counterparts: why pay more for the same? And yet they are not quite the same. They differ in...
Pandora's DNA
Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes Through History, Science, and One Family Tree
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Would you cut out your healthy breasts and ovaries if you thought it might save your life? That’s not a theoretical question for journalist Lizzie Stark’s relatives, who grapple with the horrific legacy of cancer built into the family DNA. It is a BRCA mutation that has robbed most of her female...
Penicillin Man
Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
Penicillin has affected the lives of everyone, and has exerted a powerful hold on the popular imagination since its first use in 1941. The story of its development from a chance observation in 1928 by Alexander Fleming to a life-saving drug is compelling and exciting. It revolutionized healthcare...
Battlefield Surgeon
Life and Death on the Front Lines of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In November 1942, Paul Andrew Kennedy (1912--1993) boarded the St. Elena in New York Harbor and sailed for Casablanca as part of Operation Torch, the massive Allied invasion of North Africa. As a member of the US Army's 2nd Auxiliary Surgical Group, he spent the next thirty-four months working in...
The Great Starvation Experiment
The Heroic Men Who Starved so That Millions Could Live
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
What does it feel like to starve? To feel your body cry out for nourishment, to think only of food? How many fitful, hungry nights must pass before dreams of home-cooked meals metastasize into nightmares of cannibalism? Why would anyone volunteer to find out?
In The Great Starvation Experiment,...