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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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The Longevity Revolution: The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life
by Robert N., M.d. Butler Publisher Comments Pulitzer-prize winning author Dr. Robert Butler coined the term "ageism" and made "Alzheimer's" a familiar word. Now he brings his formidable knowledge and experience in aging issues to a recent and unprecedented achievement: the extension of human life...
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Breaking Free: A Recovery Handbook for Facing Codependence''
by Pia Mellody Publisher Comments Your History of Abuse The experience of abuse in childhood is the root of the illness of codependence I believe the recovery process begins by looking at the beginning Of the disease--which is in childhood. A dysfunctional, less-than-nurturing, abusive...
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Holistic Pediatrician 2ND Edition Pediatricians
by Kathi Kemper Publisher Comments Chapter One The Therapeutic Mountain "I've taken my child to so many doctors, I've lost count," Helen began. "The pediatrician put him on antibiotics to prevent any more ear infections, but the medicines gave him diarrhea and a yeast infection. The...
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How Doctors Think
by Jerome Groopman Publisher Comments A New Yorker staff writer, best-selling author, and professor at Harvard Medical School unravels the ultimate medical mystery: how doctors figure out the best treatments — or fail to do so. On average, a physician will interrupt a patient...
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American College of Physicians Complete Home Medical Guide
by David R Goldmann Synopsis The most innovative and authoritative reference to family health and medicine ever produced, the "ACP Complete Home Medical Guide" gives readers the information needed on the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of medical conditions....
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The Thinking Woman's Guide to Better Birth
by Henci Goer Synopsis Certified Lamaze instructor and activist Henci Goer brings women the carefully researched facts they'll want to have--the complete rundown on modern pregnancy and childbirth....
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Doubt Is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health
by David (edt) Michaels Publisher Comments "Doubt is our product," a cigarette executive once observed, "since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy." In this eye-opening expose,...
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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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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...
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
by Maryanne Wolf
Publisher Comments The act of reading is a miracle. Every new reader's brain possesses the extraordinary capacity to rearrange itself beyond its original abilities in order to understand written symbols. But how does the brain learn to read? As world-renowned cognitive...
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Loss of Sadness : How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder (07 Edition)
by Allan V. Horwitz Publisher Comments Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder every year and 25% succumb at some point in their lives. Warnings that depressive disorder is a leading cause of...
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How Doctors Think
by Jerome Groopman Publisher Comments How Doctors Think is a window into the mind of the physician and an insightful examination of the all-important relationship between doctors and their patients. In this myth-shattering work, Jerome Groopman explores the forces and thought processes...
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Your Inner Physician & You: Craniosacral Therapy and Somatoemotional Release
by John E Upledger Publisher Comments A thorough description of how the power of the psyche can be used to heal physical illness -- Includes new information on how alternative treatments can help heal "mainstream" ailments The "inner physician" is that part of the psyche that can heal...
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Blood Matters: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene
by Masha Gessen Publisher Comments In 2004 genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had a mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. The discovery initiated Gessen into a club of sorts: the small (but exponentially expanding) group of people in possession of a new and...
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Looking at Growing Up: How Do People Change? (Looking at Science: How Things Change)
by Jackie Gaff Synopsis LOOKING AT GROWING UP: HOW DO PEOPLE CHANGE? explores how people grow and what they can do to remain healthy. Easy-to-understand sections explain how children grow, why a good diet as well as plenty of exercise and sleep are important, and what happens...
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Problem-Based Behavioral Science and Psychiatry
by Anthony Guerrero Publisher Comments Students of behavioral science, whether residents in psychiatry, graduate students in psychology or clinical social work, or third- and fourth-year medical students preparing for the USMLE Step 1 and 2 examinations, need to understand patients' behavior,...
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Global Health: Why Cultural Perceptions, Social Representations, and Biopolitics Matter
by Mark Nichter Publisher Comments In this lesson-packed book, Mark Nichter, one of the world's leading medical anthropologists, summarizes what more than a quarter-century of health social science research has contributed to international health and elucidates what social science...
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Danforth's Obstetrics and Gynecology
by Ronald S. Gibbs Publisher Comments A core reference for residents and practitioners for over 40 years, Danforth's Obstetrics and Gynecology is now in its Tenth Edition--thoroughly revised and reorganized to provide complete, authoritative coverage of the modern clinical practice of...
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Fishman's Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders (Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders)
by Alfred P. Fishman Publisher Comments A complete guide to the entire field of respiratory medicine-with all-new content and a streamlined new design First published in 1980, Fishman's Pulmonary DiseasesandDisorders is the classic reference through which pulmonary physicians have gained a...
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