Anita Morrison, a Ph.D. research professor at the university's Nutrition Institute, has upset her director. Her negative results may jeopardize research funds critical for the institute's survival. Anita has other worries. With her biological clock approaching midnight, she desperately desires motherhood, a role thwarted by her previous husband. Can she accomplish this without another disastrous relationship? The sudden death of her director's wife sets in motion a series of events that change her life and offer the possibility that her wish may come true. Deception by Design suggests that...

Dr. Jim Roberts, an overweight, lifelong bookworm, is struggling as a newly hired Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases at University Hospital. Unable to secure research funds, Jim's career is stalled below the first rung of the academic ladder. Jim sees an opportunity for a career-making publication as he investigates a series of patients' deaths that appear to be caused by a rare pulmonary condition. He turns for help to his former medical school classmate, Dr. Rita Moore, a wiry, aggressive, pulmonary specalist. Their investigation is interrupted by Dr. Edward King, Jim's ambitious...

Dr, David Harper, an American professor of cardiology, is on sabbatical living in London and commuting to the Clinical Research Centre near Harrow, where he hopes to test a new cardiac pacemaker. He is separated from his wife, Elizabeth, who, back home, is having an affair with her English exchange professor. David's research is going badly. An English nurse develops an unexpected interest in him, and he collides with his neighbor, a kindergarten teacher who lives in the apartment across the hall. When David is implicated in a dognapping from the CRC animal quarters, he believes that his...

A retired academic infectious diseases physician has assembled a collection of short stories, personal letters, and previously published medical essays which deal with the relations between physicians and pharmaceutical companies, the concept of safe sex, and the hazards of eating raw shell-fish.

Memories is a memoir of a southern boy's early life and education through medical school. The book spans the years from 1938 through 1964. Childhood in Raleigh, N.C. . . . Saturday mornings as a museum rat in the Natural History Museum . . . Boy Scouts and eating dust at the 1953 National Jamboree . . . Two summers as an instructor at a Girl Scout Camp . . . Needham Broughton High School . . . Dodging the freshmen football players at Cobb Dorm in UNC . . . A year at the University of Gottingen in Germany . . . Slogging through Duke Medical School . . . Unlucky in love . . . A religious...