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A Doctor's Notebook:  Exploring the Medical World

Passage By Willis, Connie 2001-01 - Bantam Books 9780553580518 Check Our Catalog A tunnel, a light, a door. And beyond it ... the unimaginable. Dr. Joanna Lander is a psychologist specializing in near-death experiences. She is about to get help from a new doctor with the power to give her the chance to get as close to death as anyone can. A brilliant young neurologist, Dr. Richard Wright has come up with a way to manufacture the near-death experience using a …More

The Anatomy of Deception By Goldstone, Lawrence 2009-02 - Delta 9780385341356 Check Our Catalog A mesmerizing forensic thriller that thrusts the reader into the operating rooms, drawing rooms, and back alleys of 1889 Philadelphia, as a young doctor grapples with the principles of scientific process to track a daring killer. …More

State of Wonder By Patchett, Ann 2011-06 - Harper 9780062049803 Check Our Catalog Awards: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2012), Orange Broadband Prize (2012), Women's Fiction AKA Orange Prize (2012) Award-winning "New York Times"-bestselling author Patchett ("Bel Canto, The Magician's Assistant") returns with a provocative novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest--a gripping adventure story and a profound look at the difficult choices we make in the name of discovery and love. …More

The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis By Allen, Arthur 2014-07 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393081015 Check Our Catalog Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus. Transmitted by body lice, it afflicts the dispossessed refugees, soldiers, and ghettoized peoples causing hallucinations, terrible headaches, boiling fever, and often death. The disease plagued the German army on the Eastern Front and left the Reich desperate for a vaccine. For this they turned to the brilliant and eccentric Polish zoologist Rudolf …More

Dr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine By O'Keefe Aptowicz, Cristin Author Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe 2014-09 - Gotham Books 9781592408702 Check Our Catalog A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country's most famous museum of medical oddities Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools--or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mutter began his trailblazing career as …More

William Harvey: A Life in Circulation By Wright, Thomas 2012-10 - Oxford University Press, USA 9780199931699 Check Our Catalog In 1628, the English physician William Harvey published his revolutionary theory of blood circulation. Offering a radical conception of the workings of the human body and the function of the heart, Harvey's theory overthrew centuries of anatomical and physiological orthodoxy and had profound consequences for the history of science. It also had an enormous impact on culture more generally, …More