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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder  
Powells.com Staff Pick "It's won the Pulitzer and for good reason; it's beautifully written, inspired, and gives you something to think about the rest of the year." Hilary, Powells...
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Ghost Map: Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Rev 08 Edition)
by Steven Johnson
Powells.com Staff Pick In 1854, as a cholera epidemic ravaged London, prevailing wisdom blamed "miasma"; in other words, "bad air" was spreading the disease. One prominent physician disagreed. It was Dr. John Snow's work outside of the lab, however — his innovative...
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by Anne Fadiman
Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionWhen three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors...
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
Publisher Comments Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers (some willingly, some unwittingly) have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They...
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
Publisher Comments In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's "The Man Who...
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Social Transformation of American Medicine (82 Edition)
by Paul Starr
Publisher Comments A landmark history of how the entire American health care system of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs has evolved over the last two centuries....
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Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
by Richard Preston Publisher Comments Bizarre illnesses and plagues that kill people in the most unspeakable ways. Obsessive and inspired efforts by scientists to solve mysteries and save lives. From The Hot Zone to The Demon in the Freezer and beyond, Richard Preston’s bestselling...
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A Natural History of the Senses
by Diane Ackerman
Publisher Comments If Colette had studied science and spent time listening to icebergs in Antarctica and interviewing a professional nose in New York, she might have written a book as luscious and erudite as A Natural History of the Senses. In the course of this grand tour...
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Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
by Shannon Brownlee Publisher Comments A groundbreaking critique of the American health care system's addiction to overtreatment. Though touted as perhaps the best in the world, the American medical system is filled with hypocrisies. Our health care is staggeringly expensive, yet one in...
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Complications : a Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (02 Edition)
by Atul Gawande
Publisher Comments In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is —...
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The Demon in the Freezer
by Richard Preston Publisher Comments The first major bioterror event in the United States — the anthrax attacks in October 2001 — was a clarion call for scientists who work with "hot" agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon...
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Birth of the Clinic : an Archaeology of Medical Perception (73 Edition)
by Michel Foucault Publisher Comments In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could be mapped. Disease became subject to new rules of...
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The Uncertain Art: Thoughts on a Life in Medicine
by Sherwin B Nuland Publisher Comments “Life is short, and the Art so long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious; and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and the externals...
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
by Atul Gawande
Powells.com Staff Pick Who among us hasn't trembled at the very prospect of entering a doctor's office? It should give us all comfort, then, that bestselling author, general surgeon, and MacArthur Fellow Atul Gawande has written Better, a book that challenges surgeons to...
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Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids
by Julie Salamon Publisher Comments A bestselling author and award winning journalist follows a year in the life of a big urban hospital, painting a revealing portrait of how medical care is delivered in America today Most people agree that there are complicated issues at play in the...
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Between Heaven & Earth a Guide To Chinese Medi
by Harriet Beinfield Publisher Comments Two of the foremost American educators and healers in the Chinese medical profession demystify Chinese medicine's centuries-odl approach to health. Combining Eastern traditions with Western sensibilities in a unique blend that is relevant today, BETWEEN...
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The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise of Drug-Resistant Bacteria
by Michael Shnayerson Publisher Comments A battle is taking place on the frontiers of medicine between rapidly evolving bacteria and the doctors struggling to outwit them. "The Killers Within" tells this horror story that just happens to be true....
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Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
by Danielle Ofri Publisher Comments When Danielle Ofri enters the doors of New York's legendary Bellevue Hospital as a tentative medical student, she is plunged into the teeming world of urban medicine: mysterious illnesses, patients speaking any one of a dozen languages, overworked...
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The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery
by D. T. Max Publisher Comments For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua New Guinea, a...
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Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic
by Pamela Weintraub Publisher Comments 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...
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