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「ふつう」に違和感があるすべての人へ――。病気が教えてくれる、新しい「世界の見方」 自分と世界、身体と心、正常と異常……目に映る景色をガラリと変える一冊！

生命の本質に迫るミクロの旅。ピュリッツァー賞受賞の医師による『がん』『遺伝子』に続く圧巻の科学ドラマ。

ピュリッツァー賞受賞の医師による『がん』『遺伝子』に続く圧巻の科学ドラマ。顕微鏡による発見の数々から、感染症やがんとの苦闘、脳の仕組みの解明、最新の遺伝子治療まで、「細胞」からヒトそして生命の本質に迫ろうとしてきた人類の歩み…

統合失調症。当事者のリアルな体験談です。「うつを経験しました」とカミングアウトするうつ病の方が増え、時代は心の問題に対してオープンになってきました。

統合失調症について書いた自叙伝の第二弾です。お金のことから恋愛、いじめ問題のことまで赤裸々に書きました。歳を重ねると症状は楽になります。だから大丈夫ですよ、なんとかなりますよと、若い

Velkommen til verdens første systematiske mentale træning – skabt til at frigøre mennesker fra mental fattigdom. I mere end 70 år har vi fået at vide, at samtaleterapi, diagnoser og medicin er løsningen på mentale lidelser. Men hvad nu, hvis de slet ikke er designet til at gøre os...

In the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, a thousand surgeons faced an unprecedented medical catastrophe: 25,000 wounded soldiers needing immediate care with only primitive tools and their own determination to save lives. At Gettysburg's makeshift hospitals—set up in barns, churches, and...

―命が生みだす45の「詩（ことば）」―医者も医療も本来、完璧ではない。患者さんが治るか治らないか、助かるか助からないかを、医者がコントロールできるはずもな

A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its ideas once were - and still are. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is that kind of book.

In The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research, celebrated medievalist Dorsey Armstrong shares the fascinating new story of this old pandemic—revealed by dedicated researchers working with 21st-century technologies and a knowledge of language and history that now provide input from all geographic areas of the medieval world. In seven engaging lectures, Professor Armstrong corrects explanations of the pandemic that are now known to be inaccurate and offers a more robust description of plague biology than has ever been known.

Food and Drug Administration approval for COVID-19 vaccines and the controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm made headlines, but few of us know much about how the agency does its work. Why is the FDA the ultimate United States authority on a drug's safety and efficacy? In Drugs and the FDA, Mikkael Sekeres—a leading oncologist and former chair of the FDA's cancer drug advisory committee—tells the story of how the FDA became the most trusted regulatory agency in the world.

An Economist Best Book of 2024 “If you are at all curious about the brain or the surgeons who operate on it, Gray Matters is a must read and Dr. Theodore Schwartz is the perfect guide, a master brain surgeon and superbly talented writer. I have not read a better biography of our shared...

――著者が会社を辞めるきっかけとなったのは、次のどれでしょうか。１．おばあちゃんに毎日食事を作るため、２．おばあちゃんを毎日お風呂に入れるため、

The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, the cover-up, and how one American Army doctor’s discovery led to the development of the first drug to combat cancer, known today as chemotherapy. On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy...

Médecin légiste depuis plus de trente ans, le docteur Philippe Boxho nous fait découvrir dans cet ouvrage son quotidien fait de morts qui ne le sont pas toujours ou pas encore, de disparitions de cadavres, de dissimulations de meurtres, de suicides étonnants. De la scène de crime à la salle d’autopsie, entre pratique médicale et enquête policière, l’expert médico-légal nous raconte son métier, qui est aussi sa passion.

Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-19th century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately - childbed fever in Vienna all but disappeared - they brought down upon Semmelweis the wrath of the establishment, and led to his tragic end. 

Author Cory Franklin, MD, who headed the hospital's intensive care unit from the 1970s through the 1990s, shares his most unique and bizarre experiences, including the deadly Chicago heatwave of 1995, treating the first AIDS patients in the country before the disease was diagnosed, the nurse with rare Munchausen syndrome, the only surviving ricin victim, and the professor with Alzheimer's hiding the effects of the wrong medication.

The kidney is an extraordinary organin many ways the regulator, the metronome, the keeper of the human bodys delicate equilibrium. On a given day, minute by minute, it purifies the body of toxins it encounters from diet, climate, activity, and injury. It allows us to be and to move in the world...

Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter was added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his introduction to this edition. McNeill’s highly acclaimed work is a brilliant and challenging account of the effects of disease on human history. His sophisticated analysis and detailed grasp of the subject make this book fascinating to listen to.

For the last two centuries, groups of influential men have, in the professed interest of fiscal responsibility, crime reduction, and outright racism, attempted to control who was allowed to bear children. Their efforts, "eugenics," characterize a movement that over the last century swept across the world—from the US to Brazil, Japan, India, Australia, and beyond—in the form of marriage restrictions, asylum detention, and sterilization campaigns affected millions. German physicians and scientists adopted and then heightened these eugenics practices beginning in 1939.