My journal of a doctor experiencing community service inunder-resourced medical facilities, during public sector strikesand the world cup addresses the diffi cult and often funnyexperiences of providing medical care to divers and oftenpoverty-stricken patients.
A physician, a Northerner, a teacher, a school administrator, a suffragist, and an abolitionist, Esther Hill Hawks was the antithesis of Southern womanhood.
Little Boy Lost:Little Boy Lost depicts the life journey of an American male, as his studies in the chosen field of psychology, play a secondary role to the more profoundly influencing people, places, and events which he encounters along the way shaping his perceptions and beliefs.
Thank God I'm a Sucker is an autobiographical account of an eye surgeon, demonstrating through his own personal battles the conflicts between the ancient arts of healing of the East and the Western system of Medicine.
Acklima Akbar draws on her past experience as a manager in the NHS (National Health Service) to lead us into the fascinating world of decision-making right at the heart of this closed world.
In these two American literary classics, Henry David Thoreau offers readers his experiences and thoughts on how to live a more fulfilling life and stand up for what is right.
In these two American literary classics, Henry David Thoreau offers readers his experiences and thoughts on how to live a more fulfilling life and stand up for what is right.
Owing up to and admitting to having a learning disability as an adult something I have tried to cover up for most of my 45 years is not an admission that I would have considered making until four years ago.
An engaging series of vignettes reflective of fifty years as a practicing dermatologist specializing on sexually transmitted diseases (STD), incorporating the author's views on the sexual revolution of the 1960s, AIDS, death, melancholy, racism, legal aspects of STDs and focusing on the author's world travels
A world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon shares the lessons of courage, compassion, and resilience that he's learned from his exceptional young patients.
"e;The scientists who made the nuclear bomb are the focus of this detailed, engrossing history of one of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century.
Based on a true story, this is the tale of Adlade Labille-Guiards fight to take her rightful place in the competitive art world of eighteenth-century Paris.
SOCIETY NEEDS A WAKE-UP CALLWritten for all the tens of thousands of doctors who write prescriptions, thepharmaceutical companies who create these concoctions and dont warn thepublic of their dangers, and the pharmacies that fill but have the right and oath todeny those quantities.
Each of us has at least once in our lifetime come into contact with nurses of all backgrounds, whether in the course of being cared for or while they care for our family and friends.
My Journey to Freedom is a tale of a young girl growing up in war torn Romania and her trials and efforts to become a physician and practice medicine in communist Romania and free America.
This book follows a previously published selection of poems and pictures by the children of Terezin and Osvtim, the 'camp of lies' of the Theresienstadt Ghetto and the 'camp of death' of Auschwitz.
Un mdico, la gente de las montaas y el desafo de un proyecto de salud en el cruce de sus caminos se desarrollan historias que contar, que manifestar y de las que hay que aprender.
En Nuestra Medicina: De Los Remedios para el Aire y Los Remedios para el Alma, la autora presenta una compilacin de experiencias propias que tienen que ver con el cuidado y alcance de su propia salud y, ms tarde, de la de otros.
This book is the dramatic, inspiring story of a remarkable man, born in Germany, who achieved greatness and fame in the United States, but who, like many other distinguished persons, undeservedly faded from history.
This book is a testament to the courage and determination of my late mother Sherry Herrington in her 10-month long battle against this horrible disease.
Here, Jean Langenheim presents her odyssey as a woman field scientist, who crossed boundaries of botany, geology, and chemistry in doing ecological studies.
On their 100th anniversary, the story of the extraordinary scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativityIn 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century's most celebrated scientific experiment.
