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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom Publisher Comments Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity (P.S.) by Sharon Moalem Publisher Comments Joining the ranks of modern myth busters, Dr. Sharon Moalem turns our current understanding of illness on its head and challenges us to fundamentally change the way we think about our bodies, our health, and our relationship to just about every other... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas (P.S.) by Michael S. Gazzaniga Publisher Comments Widely considered to be the father of cognitive neuroscience, the author examines "lifespan neuroethics." He also addresses the medical ethics challenges confronting modern society at the dawn of the 21st century.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (P.S.) by John Kelly Publisher Comments La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Overdosed America (08 Edition) by John Abramson Publisher Comments Using the examples of Vioxx, Celebrex, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and anti-depressants, Overdosed America shows that at the heart of the current crisis in American medicine lies the commercialization of medical knowledge itself. Drawing on his... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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His Brother's Keeper: One Family's Journey to the Edge of Medicine by Jonathan Weiner Publisher Comments Stephen Heywood was twenty-nine years old when he learned that he was dying of ALS -- Lou Gehrig's disease. Almost overnight his older brother, Jamie, turned himself into a genetic engineer in a quixotic race to cure the incurable. His Brother's Keeper... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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As Nature Made Him : Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl -PS Edition (01 Edition) by John Colapinto Publisher Comments In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment that would alter his gender. The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine—nd a total failure. As Nature Made Him tells the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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