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The Nutters Club
Helping Nutters from the Inside Out
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
**Comedian Mike King and a skilled psychiatrist take a novel approach to issues of mental health.**Comedian Mike King's Radio Live show The Nutters Club is hugely popular because it is a forum where those with all manner of mental health issues can discuss their stories in a warm and accepting environment....
The Nostalgia Factory
Memory, Time and Ageing
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
The Roots of the Recovery Movement in Psychiatry
Lessons Learned
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
As the global psychiatric community enters a new era of transformation, this book explores lessons learned from previous efforts with the goal of “getting it right” this time. In response to the common refrain that we know about and ‘do’ recovery already, the authors set the recovery movement...
Birth
The Surprising History of How We Are Born
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A journalist **“**explores the way childbirth has changed, from pre-history to the present” in this “fascinating, funny and occasionally shocking” historical survey (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
From midwives to the epidural and beyond, mother and former Boston Globe editor Tina...
Group Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy of Anxiety
A Transdiagnostic Treatment Manual
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Cognitive-behavioral therapy is highly effective in the treatment of anxiety disorders, regardless of the specific type of fear that is causing difficulties. This practical, hands-on clinical resource presents a proven group treatment protocol for patients with any anxiety diagnosis. Step-by-step...
Into the Breach
A Year of Life and Death with EMS
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Into the Breach is the true story of paramedics, emergency medical technicians, and heavy-rescue specialists fighting to control trauma and medical emergencies in one of America's toughest and most violent cities: Newark, New Jersey. A riveting account that hauls readers on a first-hand tour of street...
Medical Detectives
The Lives & Cases of Britain's Forensic Five
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The development of forensic medicine is chronicled through the cases of five great pathologistsThe development of forensic pathology in Britain is told here through the lives of five outstanding medical pioneers. Spanning 70 years, their careers and achievements marked major milestones in the development...
Life on the Ground Floor
Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
***Canada Reads 2019 Longlist
*Winner of the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
Do no harm is our most important rule, but we break it all the time trying to do good.**
In this deeply personal book, winner of the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction,...
by Mike Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
On Monday, the 17th of September, 2013, novelist and poet Mike Johnson entered Auckland Central Hospital for some abdominal tests, and was diagnosed with multiple cancers. Nine days later he was discharged with no discernable cancers. This is the story of what happened during those nine days, and...
The Matter of the Heart
A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
An eye-opening and heroic story of pioneering heart surgeons, structured around eleven operations.
For thousands of years the human heart remained the deepest of mysteries; both home to the soul and an organ too complex to touch, let alone operate on.
Then, in the late nineteenth century,...
Partners 4 Life
The Importance of Partners in Surviving an Organ Transplant
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Early in 2008, doing ordinary, mundane things like tying his shoes and walking up steps literally took author Jim Uhrigs breath away. He had trouble breathing, and it seemed as though he could never catch his breath. That was the beginning of a long journey for Uhrig, who shares his story in Partners...
by Paul Kalanithi
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Paul Kalanithi, joven y prometedor neurocirujano, recibió a los 35 años un devastador diagnóstico de cáncer de pulmón. Entonces decidió escribir este libro, en el que cuenta, por un lado, qué lo llevó a dejar sus estudios literarios para dedicarse a la medicina (y en particular a la investigación...
A Salamander's Tale
My Story of Regeneration?Surviving 30 Years with Prostate Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Staring in the face of prostate cancer at age thirty-five and metastatic disease and proposed surgical castration at age forty, Paul Steinberg was forced to take two simultaneous journeys. The first was to transition from doctor to patient and surrender his physical health to a medical establishment...
by Godfree Roberts Ed.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Curing Meralgia Paresthetica is for people in pain who want immediate relief, long-term cure, and something to discuss with their physician. Written by a Meralgia sufferer, it helps you find your way out of pain quickly and safely. It covers every aspect of finding a cure for Meralgia Paresthetica:*...