Awakenings
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $15.95
Awakenings--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the...
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Overdiagnosed
Written by H. Gilbert Welch
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 18, 2011
Price: $24.95
From a nationally recognized expert, an exposé of the worst excesses of our zeal for medical testing
Going against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine, Dr. Gilbert Welch builds a compelling counterargument that what we need are fewer, not...
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The Touch of Healing
Energizing the Body, Mind, and Spirit With Jin Shin Jyutsu
Written by Alice Burmeister
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 4, 1997
Price: $19.00
The Touch of Healing offers readers the means to greater health, vitality, and self-understanding through the practice of an ancient oriental healing art and practical holistic philosophy called Jin Shin Jystsu. Gentle touching similar to acupressure is used to release tension that accumulates and is at the root of dysfunction, disease...
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Natural Treatments for Tics and Tourette's
A Patient and Family Guide
Written by Sheila J. Rogers
Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $19.95
This welcome guide explains how to treat tics and Tourette’s syndrome using natural and alternative therapies, from nutritional therapy, behavioral and counseling therapies, EEG biofeedback, and homeopathy to bodywork, energy medicine, and Chinese medicine. Author Sheila Rogers discusses categories of tics including spasmodic facial movements, eye blinking, mild sounds, and humming...
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Kill as Few Patients as Possible
And Fifty-Six Other Essays on How to Be the World's Best Doctor
Written by Oscar London
Format: Hardcover, 120 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $14.99
This oft-quoted all-time favorite of the medical community will gladden--and strengthen--the hearts of patients, doctors, and anyone entering medical study, internship, or practice. With unassailable logic and rapier wit, the sage Dr. Oscar London muses on the challenges and joys of doctoring, and imparts timeless truths, reality checks, and poignant insights...
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A Nurse's Story
Written by Tilda Shalof
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 5, 2010
Price: $12.99
The team of nurses that Tilda Shalof found herself working with in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a big-city hospital was known as “Laura’s Line.” They were a bit wild: smart, funny, disrespectful of authority, but also caring and incredibly committed to their jobs. Laura set the tone with her...
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