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人間の本質は肉体ではなく、不可視の生命エネルギーからなる多次元的存在である。「物質医学」から「心・身・霊の医学」への歴史的飛躍を提唱する、画期的な未来医学エッセイ。全米ベストセラー。

「私たちは必死に生きた。しかし、どう死ねばよいのか、それが分からなかった」なぜ、透析患者は「安らかな死」を迎えることができないのか？どうして、がん患者以外は「緩和ケア」を受けることさえできないのか？

人間の脳が生みだす驚くべき世界　〔見てしまう人びと〕宙を舞うハンカチ、15センチの小人、失った手足の感覚。現実には存在しないものを知覚する「幻覚」。

「医の仁術」に背を向けた医師たち。病院内の幼き対立構造には呆れるーー作家・塩田武士氏絶賛！日本医学ジャーナリスト協会賞特別賞を受賞した話題作を文庫化。

20世紀初頭に大流行した脳炎の後遺症で、言葉や感情、体の自由が奪われてしまった患者が、奇跡の新薬L-DOPAの投与によって目覚める。しかし体の機能回復に加え、人格まで変貌してしまうという怖い副作用が……。

金と頭は健康に使え！　唯一無二の健康本が誕生！　ホリエモンが世界最先端の抗加齢医学研究者たちにインタビューし得た知見を公開。

緩和ケアに携わる身でありながら、萩原健一さんの命を奪ったのと同じ希少がんを患った医師、大橋洋平さん。初めて「患者として」実感した苦しみや気付きを朝日新聞に投稿し、大反響を呼んだ。

2010年「国境なき医師団」に参加以来、20回近い海外派遣を経験した著者による生と死のドキュメント。

Pluto destroys and transforms. The first book in the Pluto Returns series, Hex the Patriarchy, follows Lilith through an extreme, multi-year case of medical gaslighting. Over the course of the COVID 19 pandemic and into summer 2023, Lilith is dismissed as crazy by her doctors, her family, and her closest friends. They insist she can’t be sick, and that she can’t know the things she claims to know. Lilith is told to call a psychiatrist while her illness nearly kills her. She begs friends and family for help, only to see her social supports disintegrate around her.

A free-wheeling philosophical essay, Hypochondria is expansive in its range of references, from the writings of Franz Kafka to original yet accessible readings of theorists like Lauren Berlant. Whether he is discussing Seinfeld, John Donne, or his own hypochondriac past, Rees reveals himself to be a wry and perceptive critic, exploring the causes—and the costs—of our desire for certainty. With wit and erudition, Hypochondria demonstrates both the rewards and the perils of reading (too) closely the common but typically overlooked aspects of our everyday lives.

From her earliest days as a junior doctor to becoming one of Ireland's leading specialists, she shares extraordinary stories of the children she's treated, the families who've loved them, and the moments when life hung by a thread. It is about how the healing begins with a doctor bearing witness and being present. It is about what it means to offer hope when certainty is gone.

Liz Casper is a former medical doctor, artis, and author from the Pacific Northwest. In her first book, BRILLIANT, BEAUTIFUL, BIPOLAR, Liz shares with us her personal journey before, during, and after her diagnosis of bipolar disorder. The book, set in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, chronicles Liz’s experience both living with and healing from this devasting diagnosis.

Unsolved Medical Mysteries: Explaining the Unexplainable is your chance to explore the strangest and most confounding cases in medical history. In 12 gripping lectures, acclaimed author, historian, and medical humanities expert Dr. Brandy Schillace guides you on a fascinating journey into the unknown, from historical enigmas to modern medical conundrums. With her unique blend of storytelling and scientific insight, Dr. Schillace digs into a range of medical mysteries

「白血病で予後が良くない９歳の女の子に、“わたし、死んじゃうの？”と聞かれたら、何と答えますか？」

ＮＨＫ、朝日新聞等メディアの注目を集める「がんを生きる緩和ケア医」大橋洋平先生の著書第三弾。長引くコロナ禍、免疫系統に打撃を受けるがん患者にとっては厳しい日々が続く。

In Sweden, refugee children fall asleep for months and years at a time. In Upstate New York, high school students develop contagious seizures. In the US embassy in Cuba, employees complain of headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises in the night. These disparate cases are some of the most remarkable diagnostic mysteries of the 21st century, as both doctors and scientists have struggled to explain them within the boundaries of medical science and—more crucially—to treat them.

The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar start-up, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose start-up ‘unicorn’ promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier.

Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. Neurosurgeon Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress. Then, Dr. Alexander’s own brain was attacked by a rare illness. The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion shut down completely. For seven days he lay in a coma. Then Alexander’s eyes popped open. He had come back. Alexander’s recovery is a medical miracle. But the real miracle of his story lies elsewhere.

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life-and-death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids and the hospital parking meter earns more than you. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know - and more than a few things you didn't - about life on and off the hospital ward.

10万人に１人の稀少がん・ジストを患いながらも、”心の免疫力が上がる言葉”を支えに生きる緩和ケア医・大橋洋平先生。

A neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brains, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring guide - a blend of personal memoir, science narrative, and immediately useful takeaways that bring the human brain into focus as never before, revealing the powerful connection between exercise, learning, memory, and cognitive abilities.

Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their 12 children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins—aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the 10 Galvin boys, one after another, were diagnosed as schizophrenic.

"Möchtest du wissen, was wahre Magie ist?" Als der 12-jährige James Doty den kuriosen Laden für Zauberbedarf betritt, ahnt er nicht, welche Wendung sein Leben nehmen wird. Was die liebenswürdige Ruth den schüchternen Jungen aus ärmlichen Verhältnissen lehrt, ermöglicht ihm, seine kühnsten Träume zu verwirklichen: Durch vier einfache Übungen befreit er sich von dem Gefühl, Opfer seiner Lebensumstände zu sein. Er wird Chirurg, dringt in die Tiefen der Gehirnforschung vor und hat als Unternehmer immensen Erfolg.

Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a creed that sees fortune as a blessing from God and misfortune as a mark of God's disapproval. At 35, everything in her life seems to point toward "blessing". She is thriving in her job, married to her high school sweetheart, and loves life with her newborn son. Then she is diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer.

Christine Bryden was a top civil servant and single mother of three children when she was diagnosed with dementia at the age of 46. Since then she has gone on to challenge almost every stereotype of people with dementia. This is a vivid account of the author's experiences of living with dementia, exploring the effects of memory problems, loss of independence, difficulties in communication and the exhaustion of coping with simple tasks. She describes how, with the support of her husband, Paul, she continues to lead an active life and explains how professionals and carers can help.

Having worked in the emergency services for more than 15 years, Dan Farnworth has seen it all. There was the time he was called to take away a dead body - only for the 'corpse' to jolt back into life and demand to know what he was doing in her house. Earlier in his career, he unwittingly disturbed a crime scene as he shared the sad news of the victim's death with her son.

"Are you one of us?" a patient once asked Marsha Linehan, the world-renowned psychologist who developed dialectical behavior therapy. "Because if you were, it would give all of us so much hope." Over the years, DBT had saved the lives of countless people fighting depression and suicidal thoughts, but Linehan had never revealed that her pioneering work was inspired by her own desperate struggles as a young woman. Only when she received this question did she finally decide to tell her story.

Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to endure. But while Jennifer witnessed brutality and tragedy, she also met with amazing kindness and understanding, tempered by a great deal of Cockney humour.

The inspiration for the BBC series of the same name. Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, to the young James Herriot 1930s Yorkshire seems to offer an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world. But from his erratic new colleagues, brothers Siegfried and Tristan Farnon, to incomprehensible farmers, herds of semiferal cattle, a pig called Nugent and an overweight Pekingese called Tricki Woo, James find he is on a learning curve as steep as the hills around him.

In this intimate memoir, renowned developer of Somatic Experiencing, Peter A. Levine—the man who changed the way psychologists, doctors, and healers understand and treat the wounds of trauma and abuse—shares his personal journey to heal his own severe childhood trauma and offers profound insights into the evolution of his innovative healing method.