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An Anthropologist on Mars
Seven Paradoxical Tales
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly...
by Oliver Sacks
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Awakenings--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver...
Poisons
From Hemlock to Botox and the Killer Bean of Calabar
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Poisons permeate our world. They are in the environment, the workplace, the home. They are in food, our favorite whiskey, medicine, and well water. They have been used to cure diseases as well as incapacitate and kill. They smooth wrinkles, block pain, stimulate and enhance athletic ability. In this...
by Sylvie Naar, PhD, Mariann Suarez
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
This pragmatic guide spells out how to use motivational interviewing (MI) to have productive conversations about behavior change with adolescents and young adults in any clinical context. Filled with vivid examples, sample dialogues, and "dos and don'ts," the book shows how conducting MI...
Suggestible You
The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
National Geographic's riveting narrative explores the world of placebos, hypnosis, false memories, and neurology to reveal the groundbreaking science of our suggestible minds. Could the secrets to personal health lie within our own brains? Journalist Erik Vance explores the surprising ways our expectations...
Can't Remember What I Forgot
The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
An essential behind-the-scenes foray into the world of cutting-edge memory research that unveils findings about memory loss only now available to general readers.
When Sue Halpern decided to emulate the first modern scientist of memory, Hermann Ebbinghaus, who experimented on himself, she...
Shadows Bright as Glass
The Remarkable Story of One Man's Journey from Brain Trauma to Artistic Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
On a sunny fall afternoon in 1988, Jon Sarkin was playing golf when, without a whisper of warning, his life changed forever. As he bent down to pick up his golf ball, something strange and massive happened inside his head; part of his brain seemed to unhinge, to split apart and float away. For an...
Can I tell you about having a Stroke?
A guide for friends, family and professionals
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Meet Fred - a man who has had a stroke. Fred invites readers to learn about what it is like to have a stroke from his perspective, helping them to understand the challenges faced by someone who has had a stroke and the ways in which they might have to adapt their lifestyle. He also gives advice on...
by Eileen Rudnick
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
As Eileen Rudnick drove home after a long day at work in October 2000, her life became unexpectedly and forever altered - she was in a near fatal head-on collision. A rush to Shock Trauma saved her life, but the accident left her with severe traumatic brain injury. The Glass Between us is the step-by-step...
Julia's Mother
Life Lessons in the Pediatric ER
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2000
A real-life pediatric emergency room doctor reveals the trials, heartbreaks, and triumphs of his work.
It's a place of intense human drama, life's highest hopes and deepest despairs. A place we rarely get to see through a doctor's eyes.
But now the emergency room at a children's hospita is...
by Marnie Nemcoff
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
You wake up and one side of your face is paralyzed. You can’t blink, can’t smile and your speech is slurred. How and why did this happen? Is it treatable? Is it permanent? Nemcoff recounts her own experiences and treatments and offers tips and advice on how to overcome this sudden and curious...
Patient Care
Death and Life in the Emergency Room
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
One of the first emergency room specialists reflects on a career full of mysteries, disappointments, and redeeming triumphs in this fast-paced and enjoyable memoir
Each chapter is a succinct and moving anecdote, even as Seward weaves his own story and wider philosophical and ethical questions...
by Tiziana M.
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2017
Did you think that tennis elbow only affects tennis players? Think
again. This often agonizing condition affects just about anyone
who performs repeated movements with their forearms, elbows
and wrists. Although the condition is called “tennis elbow,” it really
only accounts for about 5 percent...
Tripping over the Truth
How the Metabolic Theory of Cancer Is Overturning One of Medicine's Most Entrenched Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
A masterful synchronization of history and cutting-edge science shines new light on humanity's darkest diagnosis.
In the wake of the Cancer Genome Atlas project's failure to provide a legible roadmap to a cure for cancer, science writer Travis Christofferson illuminates a promising blend of...