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Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	The Legacy of Dr. Lamaze The Story of the Man Who Changed Childbirth Caroline Gutmann St. Martin's Press "In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children," commands the Bible, and for centuries childbirth pain was judged woman's inescapable burden. Then in the 1950s...

Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	Walking Out on the Boys Frances K. Conley, M.D. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks In May 1991, Frances K. Conley, the first female tenured professor of neurosurgery in the country, made headline news when she resigned from Stanford...

Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	As I Live and Breathe Notes of a Patient-Doctor Jamie Weisman, M.D. North Point Press “A gorgeously written primer for anyone who has ever been (or ever will be) a patient . . . The book soars.” —The San Diego...

Hardcover : $68.00 Buy	A Central African Odyssey William W. Cowen I.B. Tauris This biography gives an account of William Cowen's medical practice in Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia and Zambia. He worked as Medical Officer of Health...

Trade Paperback : $26.00 Buy	Goldberger's War The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader Alan M. Kraut Hill and Wang Goldberger's War chronicles one of the U.S. Public Health Service's most renowned heroes--an immigrant Jew who trained as a doctor at Bellevue, became a young...

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Not All of Us Are Saints

A Doctor's Journey With the Poor

David Hilfiker Hill and Wang

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Divided Minds

Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia

Pamela Spiro Wagner and Carolyn S. Spiro, M.D. St. Martin's Griffin

Growing up in the fifties, Carolyn Spiro was always in the shadow of her more intellectually dominant and social outgoing twin, Pamela. But as the twins...

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Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Passion of Youth An Autobiography, 1897-1922 Wilhelm Reich; Edited by Mary Higgins; Translated by Philip Schmitz Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks The diaries and reminiscences of one of the most revolutionary figures in psychoanalysis, ranging from his early development and sexual experiences to his...

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Patient by Patient

Lessons in Love, Loss, Hope, and Healing from a Doctor's Practice

Emily R. Transue, M.D. St. Martin's Griffin

Emily Transue earned her credentials in medical school, but learns lessons of a different kind when she embarks on private practice. Her patients, some...

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The Lassa Ward

One Man's Fight Against One of the World's Deadliest Diseases

Ross I. Donaldson, M.D., M.P.H. St. Martin's Griffin

Ross Donaldson was an idealistic young medical student who gave up his comfortable life in the States to venture into Sierra Leone, a country ravaged by...

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Growing Up Again

Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes

Mary Tyler Moore St. Martin's Griffin

Mary Tyler Moore, actress and activist, relates the highs and lows of living with type 1 diabetes for the past forty years. With inspired, well-crafted prose,...

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The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

Siri Hustvedt Picador

In this unique neurological memoir, Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious condition While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006,...

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The Hypochondriacs

Nine Tormented Lives

Brian Dillon Faber and Faber, Inc.

Charlotte Brontë found in her illnesses, real and imagined, an escape from familial and social duties, and the perfect conditions for writing. The German...

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Wilhelm Reich

Psychoanalyst and Radical Naturalist

Robert S. Corrington Farrar, Straus and Giroux

A stirring reappraisal of the brilliant, maligned psychoanalytic thinker Robert S. Corrington offers the first thorough reconsideration of Wilhelm Reich's...

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Mass Market Paperbound : $6.99 Buy	If Wishes Were Horses The Education of a Veterinarian Loretta Gage, D.V.M. and Nancy Gage St. Martin's Paperbacks When Loretta Gage entered her first year of training at Colorado State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, all the odds were against her. In addition...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	The Veterinarian's Touch Profiles of Life Among Animals Lee Gutkind Holt Paperbacks Since James Herriot first began his practice almost a century ago, new technologies and the changing concerns of animal owners have dramatically altered the...

Hardcover : $35.00 Buy	Benjamin Rush Patriot and Physician Alyn Brodsky Truman Talley Books The only full biography of Benjamin Rush, an extraordinary Founding Father and America's leading physician of the Colonial era While Benjamin Rush appears...

Hardcover : $68.00 Buy	Angels in Africa A Memoir of Nursing with the Colonial Sevice Bridget M. Robertson I.B. Tauris This account of nursing in Africa - in Kenya, Zanzibar, the Seychelles and Northern Nigeria, reflects the author's experience of nursing practice and...

Trade Paperback : $17.99 Buy	A Map of the Child A Pediatrician's Tour of the Body Darshak Sanghavi A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book “A delightful, quirky, awe-inspiring journey . . . Sanghavi is a vivid and effortless teller of human tales and quite evidently a special doctor,...

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On Call

A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency

Emily R. Transue, M.D. St. Martin's Griffin

On Call begins with a newly-minted doctor checking in for her first day of residency--wearing the long white coat of an MD and being called "Doctor" for the...

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Cure Unknown

Inside the Lyme Epidemic

Pamela Weintraub St. Martin's Griffin

When Pamela Weintraub, a science journalist, learned that her oldest son tested positive for Lyme disease, she thought she had found an answer to the symptoms...

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The Man Who Forgot How to Read

A Memoir

Howard Engel, Afterword by Oliver Sacks Thomas Dunne Books

The remarkable journey of an award-winning writer struck with a rare and devastating affliction that prevented him from reading even his own writing One hot...

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Intern

A Doctor's Initiation

Sandeep Jauhar Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Intern is Dr. Sandeep Jauhar’s story of his days and nights in residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him to question his every...

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Trade Paperback : $28.95 Buy	A Doctor in Galilee The Life and Struggle of a Palestinian in Isreal Hatim Kanaaneh Pluto Press Inspiring biography from a doctor working against the odds in Palestine.

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