Penguin Press HC, The, May 2008. Hardcover. A bestselling author and award winning journalist follows a year in the life of a big urban hospital, painting a revealing portrait of how medical care is delivered in America today Most people agree that there are complicated issues at play in the..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2004. Trade Paperback. 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. In this fascinating account, Mary Roach visits the..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, August 2004. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views."--USA Today "If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment's thinking about health care..... More
The Penguin Press, August 2009. Hardcover. Bestselling author T. R. Reid guides a whirlwind tour of successful health care systems worldwide, revealing possible paths toward U.S. reform. In "The Healing of America, New York Times" bestselling author T. R. Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something..... More
Dover Pubns, June 1957. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Clear and penetrating presentation of the basic principles of scientific research from the great French physiologist whose contributions in the 19th century included the discovery of vasomotor nerves; nature of curare and other poisons in human body; functions of pancreatic juice in digestion;..... More
Zone Books, July 1999. Hardcover. The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But when we look into the past, our sense of reality wavers: accounts of the body in diverse medical traditions often seem to describe mutually alien..... More
Institute for Research in Hypnosis, January 1958. Stapled Soft Cover. A former owner's mark in blue crayon and a former owner's ink signiature on front cover. More
