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A spellbinding memoir of a mother’s fight to save her daughter from a mysterious brain illness. It began with a seizure on a Brooklyn sidewalk just as fourteen-year-old Niko was preparing to enter one of the country’s most competitive high schools. Her immune system had gone haywire and was...

The riveting true story of the visionary doctor who pioneered the heart transplant—a once-controversial operation that caused a media firestorm, saved countless lives, and forced society to change what it means to die. In January 1968, a surgical team at Stanford University performed one of...

The intimate, extraordinary biography of Dr. Margaret Morgan Lawrence, America’s first Black female psychoanalyst—penned by her own daughter, now with a new afterword Margaret Morgan, raised in Mississippi in the 1910s, knows she's meant to be a doctor—and that she'll have to fight for it...

An Independent Book of the Month A New Scientist Book of the Month ‘A thoughtful, brilliantly researched and, at times, surprisingly funny look at the final moment that comes to us all’ Dominic Hughes, BBC Health Correspondent '[A] comprehensive exploration of how we can live with our...

A valiant, vital guide to reclaiming your agency and authentic healing in a medical establishment that so often dismisses women’s pain. Dr. Tracy Shevell has seen it all, and is determined to put healing back into women’s health. Labor and Deliverance proposes a bold new model of medicine...

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There's hope in every mile. What would you do if you got the worst news? Jordan Adams has faced that moment and turned heartache into hope. Discovering he was the carrier of the gene that caused his mother’s early death from Frontotemporal Dementia, Jordan set out to change the way we see this...

In this riveting true-life thriller, a doctor flying out to frontline medical emergencies in Africa shares the daring adventures, victories, and heartbreak of trying to heal. As a physician, Dr. Marc-David Munk never knew when his team's small plane landed in a remote spot in East Africa what he...

The New York Times bestselling author of The In-Between presents a vulnerable, moving memoir about the unraveling of her marriage and her evolving journey to find beauty in life's endings and beginnings. As a hospice nurse, Hadley Vlahos helps people navigate grief and major life transitions...

Der Mann an Angela Merkels Seite erzählt erstmals ganz persönlich von seinem Aufwachsen in der SED-Diktatur, seinem Erleben der deutschen Einheit und dem Glück der Freiheit. Anekdotenreich und humorvoll berichtet er vom Umgang mit den Linientreuen, von der turbulenten Zeit nach dem Mauerfall und davon, wie er den politischen Aufstieg seiner Frau zur Bundeskanzlerin erlebt hat.

Reminiscent of William Styron’s Darkness Visible but with an appealing vein of humor, a magnificently written memoir of riding the depression roller coaster, choosing electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), and finding the path to happiness—with fascinating side-journeys into the nature of identity...

When surgeons completed the world’s first hand transplant in 1998, it was supposed to be a moment of triumph. Never before had a dead man’s limb been grafted onto the living, and the possibilities for amputees, accident victims, and those born with congenital defects were nothing short of extraordinary. But the patient they chose—Clint Hallam, a businessman from New Zealand who longed to hold both of his children’s hands, embrace his wife, and play the piano again—wasn’t who he claimed to be.

In the tradition of Susannah Cahalan's Brain on Fire and Hadley Freeman's Good Girls, this is an intimate, deeply researched story of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) by the celebrated Smithsonian editor, memoirist, and essayist. Before I can tell you about the shock treatment, I should tell you...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shift, this richly drawn portrait of four nurses in four different sectors of our broken healthcare system reveals where solutions are actually possible—to make care about people rather than profits. Theresa Brown worked as a oncology nurse for...

The untold story of the Edinburgh doctor who became Arthur Conan Doyle's model for Sherlock Holmes, and his adventures in the criminal underworld of Victorian Britain. Throughout nineteenth-century Edinburgh, the surgeon Joseph Bell was known for his extraordinary talent for detection and...

'This is a triumph of reporting, and an absolutely compelling exploration of neuroscience and genetics. At its heart, though, it's a poignant, heartfelt story about family and how love sustains even in the most difficult circumstances. Like Kolker's other work, it is full of deep humanity. It's...

23 May, 2025. I've just stepped out onto the balcony, and there are kites, which always come out when there's a bit of wind. They're basically made out of bin bags, but it's a really lovely sight, especially on a day when I've been operating on loads of small children, just to know that there...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road comes the heart-wrenching journey of a family facing an unthinkable destiny, whose flawed genetic code might hold the long-sought key to a cure for dementia. In the idyllic American town of Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania, there...

From the award-winning author of A Ghost in the Throat comes a time-traversing, form-defying, genre-morphing story of a reader unraveling the legacies of a fabled asylum and the women who haunt its halls. In Cork, Ireland, a derelict Victorian mental hospital is being converted into modern...

En el verano de 2023, en un archipiélago del Mediterráneo, la hélice de un barco le hizo un cuerpo nuevo a la autora de esta historia. Perdió parte de la pierna derecha, que se convirtió en el fantasma que cruza esta historia narrada con sensibilidad, sentido crítico, humor y belleza. Esta es la memoria de una pérdida, pero también un ensayo sobre la sanidad pública, la fama, la guerra, los chistes del sistema nervioso, el amor y la amistad.