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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments Have you ever seen something that wasn’t really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals–also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine by Victoria Sweet Publisher Comments San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God's hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves-"anyone who had... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman Publisher Comments The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lias parents and her doctors both wanted what... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 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: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande Staff Pick Who among us hasn't trembled at the very prospect of entering a doctor's office? It should give us all comfort, then, that bestselling author, general surgeon, and MacArthur Fellow Atul Gawande has written Better, a book that challenges surgeons to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Down from Troy: A Doctor Comes of Age by Richard Selzer Synopsis A beautifully crafted memoir by one of America's finest storytellers.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Soul of a Doctor (06 Edition) by Susan Pories Publisher Comments You're in a hospital trying for the first time to be a doctor. No more textbook diagrams and classroom cadavers; this is the real thing, in real time. You've got a patient who's convinced that her illness is the same one that she saw once on Oprah and is... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments "An explorer of that most wondrous of islands, the human brain," writes D.M. Thomas in The New York Times Book Review, "Oliver Sacks also loves the oceanic kind of islands." Both kinds figure movingly in this book--part travelogue, part autobiography... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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White Coat: Becoming a Doctor at Harvard Medical School by Ellen Lerne Rothmen Publisher Comments White Coat is Dr. Ellen Lerner Rothman's vivid account of her four years at Harvard Medical School. Describing the grueling hours and emotional hurdles she underwent to earn the degree of M.D., Dr. Rothman tells the story of one woman's transformation... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural, and the Healing Power of Hope by Allan J Hamilton Publisher Comments A Harvard-educated neurosurgeon reveals his experiencesin and out of the operating roomwith apparitions, angels, exorcism, after-death survival, and the miracle of hope. For the millions who have enjoyed Proof of Heaven, Heaven is Real,... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks Staff Pick Musicophilia is a fascinating look at music and its effects on our brains. Who but Oliver Sacks could make such a compulsively readable book?... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands. An Anthropologist on Mars offers portraits of seven such travellers including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande Publisher Comments A New York Times Bestseller In his latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with it. The modern world has given us stupendous know-how. Yet avoidable... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag Publisher Comments In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab by Christine Montross Publisher Comments A doctor of uncommon curiosity and compassion confronts cases that challenge and deepen her practice In Falling Into the Fire, psychiatrist and author of Body of Work Christine Montross reveals the complexities of navigating the mind’s treacherous... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Series) by Lewis Thomas Publisher Comments From the 1920s when he watched his father, a general practitioner who made housecalls and wrote his prescriptions in Latin, to his days in medical school and beyond, Lewis Thomas saw medicine evolve from an art into a sophisticated science. The Youngest... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver W Sacks Publisher Comments From his earliest days, Oliver Sacks, the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time, was irresistibly drawn to understanding the natural world. Born into a large family of doctors, metallurgists, chemists... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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