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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
by Atul Gawande  
Powells.com 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...
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder
Powells.com Staff Pick "It's won the Pulitzer and for good reason; it's beautifully written, inspired, and gives you something to think about the rest of the year." Hilary, Powells...
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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...
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Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
by Pope Brock
Powells.com Staff Pick Charlatan reads like a highly imaginative novel and is everything a work of popular history should be. Recommended by Michal, Powells.com...
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The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine
by Anne Harrington Publisher Comments Lays bare the history behind mind-body healing. People suffering from serious illnesses improve their survival chances by adopting a positive attitude and refusing to believe in the worst. Stress is the great killer of modern life. Ancient Eastern mind...
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
Publisher Comments Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers (some willingly, some unwittingly) have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They...
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
by Atul Gawande
Publisher Comments In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is —...
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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...
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Woman as Healer
by Jeanne Achterberg Publisher Comments This groundbreaking work examines the role of women in the Western healing traditions. Drawing on the disciplines of history, anthropology, botany, archaeology, and the behavioral sciences, Jeanne Achterberg discusses the ancient cultures in which women...
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Seeing Voices
by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments "This book will shake your preconceptions about the deaf, about language and about thought--. Sacks [is] one of the finest and most thoughtful writers of our time."--Los Angeles Times Book Review Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a...
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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...
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The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery
by D T Max Publisher Comments For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua New Guinea, a...
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Undercover: How I Went from Company Man to FBI Spy -- And Exposed the Worst Healthcare Fraud in US History
by John W Schilling Synopsis When accountant John Schilling went to work for the Columbia Hospital Corporation, he never expected to become the catalyst for the series of "whistleblower" cases that ripped through the healthcare industry in the late 1990s. This is his compelling...
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The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery (Medical Mysteries)
by D T Max Publisher Comments For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua New Guinea, a...
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A Natural History of the Senses
by Diane Ackerman
Publisher Comments If Colette had studied science and spent time listening to icebergs in Antarctica and interviewing a professional nose in New York, she might have written a book as luscious and erudite as A Natural History of the Senses. In the course of this grand tour...
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The Medical Science of House, M.D.
by Andrew Holtz Publisher Comments The facts behind the addictive medical drama starring Golden Globe winner Hugh Laurie. Week after week, House, M.D. has held viewers' attention with brilliant cast performances and intriguing diagnostic mysteries often solved with daring treatments...
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
by Atul Gawande
Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling author of Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession. The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces...
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Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
by Shannon Brownlee Publisher Comments A groundbreaking critique of the American health care system's addiction to overtreatment. Though touted as perhaps the best in the world, the American medical system is filled with hypocrisies. Our health care is staggeringly expensive, yet one in...
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Do No Harm: How a Magic Bullet for Prostate Cancer Became a Medical Quandary
by Stewart Justman Synopsis A fascinating medical detective story about the unusual reception for a promising new drug by a skeptical medical community reluctant to abandon its age-old Hippocratic Oath of Do No Harm. Stewart Justman explains how a pill called finasteride, proven to...
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Flesh and Blood
by Susan E. Lederer Publisher Comments Organ transplantation is one of the most dramatic interventions in modern medicine. Since the 1950s thousands of people have lived with 'new' hearts, kidneys, lungs, corneas, and other organs and tissues transplanted into their bodies. From the beginning,...
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