Item 622670The Early History of Surgery by W.J. Bishop (1995) Hardcover
NY: Barnes & Noble. Hardcover.
NY: Barnes & Noble. Hardcover.
Oxford University Press, October 2013. Hardcover. Could Lincoln have lived? After John Wilkes Booth fired a low-velocity .44 caliber bullet into the back of the president's skull, Lincoln did not perish immediately. Attending doctors cleaned and probed the wound, and actually improved his breathing for a time. Today medical trauma.....
Riverhead Books, October 2007. Trade Paperback. A National Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year from the author of Extra Life "By turns a medical thriller, detective story, and paean to city life, Johnson's account of the outbreak and its modern.....
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2022. Trade Paperback. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis's taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the.....
Vintage, January 1996. Trade Paperback. We can cure hundreds of ailments, but we understand remarkably little about why diseases exist at all. Why do we crave the very things that make us sick? Why, after thousands of generations, hasn't natural selection eliminated cancer, schizophrenia, and other scourges and evolved us.....
Bloomsbury USA, September 2004. Hardcover. Americans take millions of aspirin each year, little dreaming that the seemingly ordinary pill is one of the most amazing creations in medical history. Aspirin is a drug so astonishingly versatile that it can relieve your headache, ease your aching limbs, lower your temperature, and.....
Atria Books, January 2001. Trade Paperback. A national bestseller, the fast-paced and gripping account of the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918 from acclaimed science journalist Gina Kolata, now featuring a new epilogue about avian flu. When we think of plagues, we think of AIDS, Ebola, anthrax spores, and, of course.....
Scientific American, October 2018. Trade Paperback. Winner, PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing "Warning: She spares no detail!" --Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead Wake In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed by advances made.....
McGraw-Hill Companies, September 2001. Hardcover. "This is an excellent book. It should be read by all who are interested in any aspect of Tuberculosis, including the growing problem of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis." "Journal of American Medical Association "The book serves an important function, relaying statistics and TB hot spots, proposing.....
Oxford University Press, January 1998. Hardcover. Ex-library. Ex-library.
Prometheus, April 2006. Trade Paperback. Stem cell research is headline news. Researchers are eager to move forward, state governments and private foundations are rushing to support it, and the sick and afflicted are desperate for its benefits. Yet powerful forces in our society - led by President George W. Bush.....
William Morrow Paperbacks, December 2009. Trade Paperback. The book that inspired the movie, Extraordinary Measures, starring Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser, and Keri Russell, The Cure by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Geeta Anand is the remarkable true story of one father's determination to find a cure for his terminally sick children even.....
The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Hardcover.
ONEWorld Publications, June 2008. Hardcover. Body Shopping offers an unflinching examination of the new economy that has sprung up to take advantage of your body. Our tissues, genes, and organs are becoming, in the words of the head of one pharmaceutical company, the currency of the future . From the.....
William Morrow, September 2006. Hardcover. A city with eight million people has eight million ways to die For fifteen years, Shiya Ribowsky worked as a medicolegal investigator in New York City's medical examiner's office--the largest, most sophisticated organization of its kind in the world. Utilizing his background in medicine, he.....
St. Martin's Press, June 2008. Hardcover. A groundbreaking and controversial narrative investigation into the science, history, medical politics, and patient experience of Lyme disease told by a science journalist whose entire family contracted the disease. Pamela Weintraub paints a nuanced picture of the intense controversy and crippling uncertainty surrounding Lyme.....
Oxford University Press, January 1998. Hardcover.
Random House Large Print Publishing, August 2020. Trade Paperback. #1 New York Times bestseller "Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history."--Bill Gates "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."--Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth.....
Simon & Schuster, October 2022. Hardcover. National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic--a "luminous, passionate account of the defining crisis of our time." (The New York.....
Central Park South Publishing, November 2022. Paperback. We're Overdosed looks at the history of opium and the drug's spread throughout the world. It traces the origin of morphine from opium, the subsequent synthesis of opioids, and the birth of the global pharmaceutical industry. From Barry I. Gold's point of view.....
Simon & Schuster, October 2023. Trade Paperback. National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic--a "luminous, passionate account of the defining crisis of our time" (The New.....
Henry Holt and Co., April 2004. Hardcover.
Paul S. Ericsson, Inc., 1966. Hardcover. Third printing, 1966. Inscribed by author on FFEP. Jacket seriously worn. Text clean, binding sound. Third printing, 1966. Inscribed by author on FFEP. Jacket seriously worn. Text clean, binding sound.
Holt Paperbacks, November 1996. Paperback.
Knopf, June 2021. Hardcover. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19--its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it "A book of panoramic breadth ... managing to surprise us about.....