Overview :Henrietta Lacks a poor Southern tobacco farmer was buried in an unmarked grave sixty years ago. Yet her cells -- taken without her knowledge... 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 :"Delightfully horrifying."--Popular Science This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a un... 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 :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 :"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 :Covers the history of twelve important diseases and addresses public health responses and societal upheavals.Chronicles the ways disease out... 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 :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 :An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through the eyes of its longtime Director of Intens... Read More
Overview :"Comprehensive, encyclopedic, and lucid, this book is a must for all practitioners of the healing arts who want to broaden their understandi... 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 :A fascinating account of the world's most famous disease-polio- told as you have never heard it before. Epidemics of paralysis began to rage... 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