Overview :Now an HBO(R) Film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her a... Read More
Overview :"Delightfully horrifying."--Popular Science This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a un... Read More
Overview :Behind every disease is a story, a complex narrative woven of multiple threads, from the natural history of the disease, to the tale of its ... Read More
Overview :Nearly two decades after it closed, the South Carolina State Hospital continues to hold a palpable mystique in Columbia and throughout the s... Read More
Overview :Nearly two decades after it closed, the South Carolina State Hospital continues to hold a palpable mystique in Columbia and throughout the s... Read More
Overview :It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, h... Read More
Overview :What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morp... Read More
Overview :Here David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the di... Read More
Overview :Medicine tells the fascinating story of the discipline, from ancient times to the present day, charting developments in healing, diagnosis, ... Read More
Overview :"Although When Death Becomes Life is about courage and innovation and dedication, it is foremost a book about hope.... This monumental and e... Read More
Overview :The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year From the Pulitzer P... Read More
Overview :#1 New York Times bestseller "Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history.... Read More
Overview :The most fatal virus known to science, rabies-a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans-kills nearly one hundred percent of its v... Read More
Overview :The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also... Read More
Overview :The Neijing is one of the most important classics of Taoism, as well as the highest authority on traditional Chinese medicine. Its authorshi... Read More
Overview :In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belong... Read More
Overview :Discover the "dazzling...fascinating" (Los Angeles Times) novel that launched the New York Times bestselling Kay Scarpetta series from #1 be... Read More