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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。

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。

Surgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell this engrossing history of surgery through 28 famous operations—from Louis XIV and Einstein to JFK and Houdini. From the story of the desperate man from seventeenth-century Amsterdam who grimly cut a stone out of his own...

This program is read by the author. A renowned neurologist shares the true stories of people unable to get a good night’s rest in The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep, a fascinating exploration of the symptoms and syndromes behind sleep disorders. For Dr...

In Connective Tissue, Ryan Normandeau reveals the raw truth behind medical device sales, a field where missing a single screw can mean disaster and where most success stories happen off the record. From the chaos of the OR to the quiet power of mentorship, he shares how he built and sold two medical device companies before age forty, with no legacy, no connections, and no backup plan.

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

The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity - by chewing, brewing, and snorting - some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the 5,000-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze Age medicine, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings.

―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

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 change what it means to die. In January 1968, a surgical team at Stanford University performed one of the...

The Immune Mystery follows doctor and researcher Anita Kåss' quest to solve the autoimmune puzzle, beginning with the premature death of her mother, who developed rheumatoid arthritis shortly after giving birth to Anita. As a child, Anita vowed to study the illness and one day find a cure. Becoming a respected doctor and researcher, Anita devoted herself to studying autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and multiple sclerosis. A compelling blend of incredible determination and cutting-edge science, this book changes the way we think about autoimmune diseases.

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.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 100 BOOK OF THE CENTURY * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A TIME ALL-TIME 100 NONFICTION BOOK Updated with FOUR NEW MAJOR CHAPTERS illuminating the new developments in cancer detection, prevention, treatment, and...

Beginning with opium, the “joy plant,” which has been used for 10,000 years, Thomas Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, the first antibiotic, which saved countless lives, the first antipsychotic, which helped empty public mental hospitals, Viagra, statins, and the new frontier of monoclonal antibodies. This is a deep, wide-ranging, and wildly entertaining book.

The Cancer Problem offers the first medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in 19th-century Britain. It argues that it was in the 19th century that cancer acquired the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains today. Through an interrogation of the construction, deployment, and emotional consequences of the disease's incurability, this book reframes our conceptualization of the relationship between medicine and modern life and reshapes our understanding of chronic and incurable maladies, both past and present. 

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, one renowned scientist, in his famous bowtie, appeared daily on major news networks such as MSNBC, NPR, the BBC, and others. Dr. Peter J. Hotez often went without sleep, working around the clock to develop a nonprofit COVID-19 vaccine and to keep the public informed. During that time, he was one of the most trusted voices on the pandemic and was even nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his selfless work. He also became one of the main targets of anti-science rhetoric that gained traction through conservative news media.

Plagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanity’s uniquely dangerous disease pool is rooted deep in our evolutionary past, and why its growth is accelerated by technological progress. He shows that the story of disease is entangled with the history of slavery, colonialism, and capitalism, and reveals the enduring effects of historical plagues all around us, in patterns of wealth, health, power, and inequality.

This book covers the history of 12 important diseases and addresses public health responses and societal upheavals.

――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、

「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！