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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The Bantam Medical Dictionary, Sixth Edition
Updated and Expanded Sixth Edition
Written by Laurence Urdang
Format: Paperback, 784 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $7.99
Here in one compact volume is a personal medical reference guide you can turn to with trust. The fully expanded and revised sixth edition of
The Bantam Medical Dictionary provides the most up-to-date medical information in an easy-to-access format specifically designed for general readers, students, and health-care professionals. Compiled and reviewed...
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An Anthropologist On Mars
Seven Paradoxical Tales
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 13, 1996
Price: $15.95
To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers
Awakenings and
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions...
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Migraine
Written by Oliver Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 5, 1999
Price: $15.95
The many manifestations of migraine can vary dramatically from one patient to another, even within the same patient at different times. Among the most compelling and perplexing of these symptoms are the strange visual hallucinations and distortions of space, time, and body image which migraineurs sometimes experience. Portrayals of these uncanny...
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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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Alternative Medicine, Second Edition
The Definitive Guide
Edited by Larry Trivieri and John W. Anderson
Introduction by Burton Goldberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 1280 pages
On Sale: June 6, 2002
Price: $39.99
The "Bible" of Alternative MedicineLearn the health secrets that millions of readers have discovered in the book that is revolutionizing health care in the United States.
Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide is packed with lifesaving information and alternative treatments from 400 of the world'¬?s leading alternative physicians.Our contributors (M.D.s, Ph.D.s, Naturopaths...
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