Medicine

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine [9780241262498]

The gripping story of a visionary British surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine delivered us into the modern world - the safest time to be…

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The Art of Hypnosis: Mastering Basic Techniques: Part 3 [9781845904395]

The 'Grand Master' of Hypnotherapy, the late Charles Tebbetts, was a master teacher of hypnosis and hypnotherapy. Tebbetts' training has formed the ba…

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Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End [9781846685828]

'Gawande's most powerful, and moving, book.' - Malcolm Gladwell 'Being Mortal is not only wise and deeply moving; it is an essential and insightful bo…

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Medicine: The Definitive Illustrated History [9780241225967]

Medicine tells the fascinating history of medicine through the ages to the present day. Follow the greatest stories of medicine and its breakthroughs,…

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Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table [9780008196783]

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BMA PRESIDENT'S AWARD 2017 An incredible memoir from one of t…

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Love's Executioner [9780141975443]

Love's Executioner offers us the humane and extraordinary insight of renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom into the lives of ten of his patients - and …

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Nutrition for Combat Sports [9781785001536]

Eating specifically is an athlete's most effective weapon in the fight for fitness. An athlete simply needs to know what types of training need what s…

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1 Page at a Time: A Daily Creative Companion [9780141981024]

This book could be anything: a journal, a keepsake, a calendar, a friend, all of the above. It gently (and not gently) pushes you through the year, ge…

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Art as Therapy [9780714872780]

Two authorities on popular culture reveal the ways in which art can enhance mood and enrich lives - now available in paperback This passionate, though…

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Dibs in Search of Self: Personality Development in Play Therapy [9780140134599]

This title presents the story of one little boy and his journey through childhood life up to his mid-teens, and also an insight into psychotherapy - h…

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High Society: Mind Altering Drugs in History and Culture [9780500289105]

New in paperback, Mike Jays global history of intoxication looks at the earliest archaeological evidence of drug use, the botanicals of the classical …

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How to Master Nursing Calculations: Improve Your Maths and Make Sense of Drug Dosage Charts [9780749467531]

For the maths-phobic, this 2nd edition of the best-selling How to Master Nursing Calculations , is ideal practice for learning key numeracy skills. T…

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Shapeshifters: On Medicine & Human Change [9781781257739]

To be alive is to be in perpetual change: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, award-winning writer and doctor Gavin Francis considers…

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The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry [9781922247056]

A riveting expose of the psychiatric profession's bible that reveals the deeply flawed process by which mental disorders are invented and uninvented -…

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The British Dentist [9780747811350]

Though the prospect may fill us with dread, most of us need dental treatment at some stage - and the reality is that better care has never been availa…

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30-Second Medicine: The 50 Crucial Milestones, Treatments and Technologies in the History of Health, Each Explained in Half a Minute [9781782404552]

What does the Hippocratic oath actually say? Who originally discovered antibiotics? And is it true that technology now allows reconstructive surgery t…

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A Concise Introduction to Existential Counselling [9781446208441]

'A concise introduction to existential counselling is a superb addition to the literature on existential counselling and psychotherapy. Martin Adams p…

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A Garden of Medicinal Plants [9781408706244]

The Royal College of Physicians celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2018, and to observe this landmark is publishing this series of ten books. Each of…

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A-Z of Genetic Factors in Autism, An: A Handbook for Professionals [9781843109761]

Our understanding of the biological bases to the autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs) is advancing rapidly. Over 80 genetic conditions have now been rep…

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Academic General Practice in the UK Medical Schools, 1948--2000: A Short History [9780748643561]

The first collective record of the evolution of general medical practice as an academic discipline over half a century. This anthology captures the st…

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