A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
Vintage, March 1997. Trade Paperback. More
Medicine
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Frontier Medicine: From the ATlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941
Vintage, October 2009. Trade Paperback. In this intriguing narrative, David Dary charts how American medicine has evolved since 1492, when New World settlers first began combining European remedies with the traditional practices of the native populations. It's a story filled with colorful characters, from quacks and con artists to heroic..... More
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Vintage, April 1998. Trade Paperback. As relevant today as they were at the turn of the century, Proust's life and work are transformed here into a no-nonsense guide to, among other things, enjoying your vacation, reviving a relationship, achieving original and uncliched articulation, being a good host, recognizing love, and..... More
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women
Anchor, January 2005. Trade Paperback. From the bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed and a former editor in chief Mother Jones, this women's history classic brilliantly uncovers the constraints imposed on women in the name of science. Since the nineteenth century, professionals have been invoking scientific expertise to prescribe what..... More
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (FSG Classics) by Anne Fadiman (2012-04-24)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2012. Trade Paperback. 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, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced..... More
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
St. Martin's Press, January 2023. Hardcover. From the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, comes Henry Marsh's And Finally, an unflinching and deeply personal exploration of death, life and neuroscience. As a retired brain surgeon, Henry Marsh thought he understood illness, but he was unprepared for the impact..... More
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Riverhead Books, March 2022. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by NPR, The New Yorker, Time, and Vogue "Remarkable." -Andrew Solomon, The New York Times Book Review "At once a rigorous work of..... More
The Family Physician; or, the Whole Art of Curing Diseases
Pryor Publications. Trade Paperback. More
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