Western Europe supported a highly developed and diverse medical community in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. In her absorbing history of this complex era in medicine, Siraisi explores the inner workings of the medical community and illustrates the connections of medicine to both natural philosophy and technical skills.

Takes us into the lives of people at pivotal moments when they reach for, and find hope - or when it eludes their grasp. Through these intimate portraits, we learn how to distinguish true hope from false, why everyone deserves to have hope, and whether we should ever give up.

A revised edition of the English-language edition for Africa, this book has been edited to take into account medical conditions which are more prevalent in Africa, as well as social and cultural factors.

The American Medical Association is the nation's premier health authority - an organization that both patients and doctors look to for medical information and guidance. This work features sections on topics - from staying healthy and providing first aid and home care to diagnosing symptoms and treating hundreds of diseases and disorders.

Discusses about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat death. This book features various chapters that sum up one of these battlefields such as surgery, doctors, disease, hospitals, laboratories and the human body. It is suitable for those who are keenly aware of their own mortality and wants to do something about it.

Often imitated, never duplicated.

Fifth edition. For all trekkers, climbers, sailors and skiers - or anyone else who ventures more than 24 hours beyond medical attention.

Chronicles the author's evolution from naive and ambitious young houseman to world-class neurosurgeon. This book describes some of the challenges of the author's career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumour in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia and a clergyman with a.22-caliber bullet lodged in his skull.

A space probe, designed to collect organisms and dust for study, falls to earth in a desolate area of north-eastern Arizona. In a nearby town, bodies lie flung about, faces frozen in surprise. The terror has begun. This bestseller is by the author of Jurassic Park .

In this groundbreaking and absorbing book Dr. Sharon Moalem, delves back into the evolution of man to offer a radical perspective on survival, the human body, and our understanding of disease. Survival of the Sickest will change the way you think about your body.

Fatal Familial Insomnia is a rare, inherited disease that has afflicted one noble Venetian family for centuries, striking at random and passing from generation to generation like a deadly dynastic curse. The cause? A rogue protein called a prion, which is impossible to destroy and is also responsible for Mad Cow Disease and scrapie in sheep.

The renowned, bestselling healthcare classic, completely revised and updated.

Perowne makes his way to his weekly squash game through London streets filled with hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors. A minor car accident brings him into a confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive, young man, on the edge of violence. To Perowne's professional eye, there appears to be something profoundly wrong with him.

A magnificent saga of one man's unbeatable spirit... and one woman's undying love.

Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our time. In Pathologies of Power Farmer uses harrowing stories of life - and death - in extreme situations to link the lived experiences of individual victims to a ...

A narrative of one of the key turning points in medical history.

This work digs deep and painfully into personal experience of depression and mental illness, while also considering the wider picture: the historical, social, biological, chemical, pharmaceutical and medical aspects and implications of the disease.

The 400,000 copy Richard & Judy bestseller reissued with a brilliant new livery, a classic backlist title from the inimitable Jodi Picoult.

Full of spleen, this will be a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of Bad Science.

Women have always been healers, and medicine has always been an arena of struggle between female lay practitioners and male professionals. This work explores two important phases in the male takeover of health care: the suppression of 'witches' in medieval Europe and the rise of the male medical profession in the United States.