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Self Comes to Mind
Constructing the Conscious Brain
Written by Antonio Damasio
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 9, 2010
Price: $13.99
From one of the most significant neuroscientists at work today, a pathbreaking investigation of a question that has confounded philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists for centuries: how is consciousness created?
Antonio Damasio has spent the past thirty years studying and writing about how the brain operates, and his work has garnered acclaim...
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The Knife Man
Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
Written by Wendy Moore
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his gothic horror story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he based the house of the genial doctor-turned-fiend on the home of John Hunter. The choice was understandable, for Hunter was both widely acclaimed and greatly feared.
From humble origins, John Hunter rose to become the most...
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Every Patient Tells a Story
Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
Written by Lisa Sanders
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $13.99
A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly
New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series
House, M.D. "The experience of being ill can be like...
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Arms Wide Open
A Midwife's Journey
Written by Patricia Harman
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 12, 2011
Price: $24.95
A midwife’s memoir of living free and naturally against all odds
In her first, highly praised memoir, Patricia Harman told us the stories patients brought into her exam room, and her own story of struggling to help women as a nurse-midwife in medical practice with her husband, an OB/GYN, in Appalachia. In...
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