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Dementia, heart failure and cancer are now the leading causes of death in industrialised nations, where life expectancy is mostly above 80. A century ago, life expectancy was about 50 and people died mainly from infectious diseases. In the Middle Ages, death was mostly caused by famine, plague...

A grassroots history of American medicine that shows how regular people were architects of medical knowledge and care. Most histories of medicine center doctors: the standard-bearers of expertise and innovation. Yet these narratives underplay the role that ordinary people have, and always have...

A History of the World in12 Diseases focuses on the key diseases and infections that have shaped the modern world as we know it. This book chronicles the diseases that have changed the world, helped us to develop vaccines and technology, and ultimately altered the course of history. It includes...

The Case of the Bitter Cure Scandal. Science. Subterfuge. Aspirin—the so-called “miracle drug”—has been a household name for over a century. But behind its rise lies a story of corporate backstabbing, legal warfare, and a medical mystery spanning generations. From its ancient origins in willow bark to Bayer’s secretive laboratories, The Case of the Bitter Cure unravels the bitter truth behind the world’s most famous painkiller. Who really discovered aspirin? Why did governments go to war over it? And how did a simple pill become one of the most controversial drugs in history?

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.

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...

Discover how Esther Ouwehand (Dutch Party for the Animals) sets out the root causes of the corona pandemic and provides solutions for preventing the rise of new pandemic threats.

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...

Una mirada a las guerras del siglo XX a través de los médicos que estuvieron en el frente. La guerra civil española y la guerra de China contra Japón trascendieron sus fronteras. Para buena parte de la opinión pública mundial, eran la avanzadilla de los grandes conflictos ideológicos y...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue...

Open Wide is a book that provides a detailed guide of the ramifications on the future of dental care. It also includes essays with constructive advice and inspiring tips on leadership development skills that can help in uplifting the dental professionals to thrive in their career. This book will not only discuss the problems but also identify and address the root causes of certain issues.

At its core, American Disgust wrestles with how changing cultural notions of digestion-what goes into the body and what comes out of it-create and impose racial categories motivated by feelings of disgust rooted in American settler-colonial racism. It shows how disgust is a changing, yet fundamental, aspect of American subjectivity and that engaging with it-personally, politically, and theoretically-opens up possibilities for conceptualizing health at the individual, societal, and planetary levels.

Listen to history's first ever account of a gunshot wound to the spine.

La tendresse et l’humour de Baptiste Beaulieu au service d’un sujet fort et nécessaire : bienvenue dans le quotidien d’un médecin.

In the 1970s, Dr. Alan Scott sought to selectively weaken eye muscles to treat strabismus (when one or both eyes are misaligned) without surgery. After failed attempts with other agents, Scott developed a method to stabilize the bacteria that causes botulism, culminating in a drug that eventually became known as Botox.

Long before the U.S. government began conducting secret radiation and germ-warfare experiments, and long before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, medical professionals had introduced—and hotly debated the ethics of—the use of human subjects in medical experiments. In Subjected to Science, Susan Lederer provides the first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the earlier period, from 1890 to 1940.

Wie kommt die Energie vom Müsli in die Muskeln? Und warum vergessen wir ständig, wo unser Schlüssel liegt? Unser Körper ist für uns selbstverständlich, und doch wissen wir oft nicht, wie er funktioniert. Der Tiktoker und Medizinstudent Matthias Schuberth schaut auf alltägliche Situationen und erklärt dabei, was in uns vorgeht, wenn wir lernen, Sport treiben, uns verlieben oder traurig sind. Mit Humor und kreativen Vergleichen erzählt er in kleinen Geschichten, wie großartig unser Körper ist.

Discover the fascinating history of medicine from its primitive beginnings to the lifesaving technologies of today. Award-winning author Dr Carol Cooper takes you on a journey through the 12 objects that have come to define medicine through the ages – from the barbaric and bizarre to the...

Winner of the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction | Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize An unforgettable and inspiring true story of how one family’s grief transformed into a lifesaving gift—written by a bestselling author and palliative care doctor. The first of our organs to form and the...