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A Maverick's Odyssey: One Doctor's Quest to Conquer Disease: The Story of Stephen L. DeFelice, M.D. and FIM, the Foundation for Innovation i
ISBN: 9781434326829 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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A Maverick's Odyssey: One Doctor's Quest to Conquer Disease: The Story of Stephen L. DeFelice, M.D. and Fim, the Foundation for Innovation I
ISBN: 9781434326836 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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113,03 |
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Around the World in Eighty Years
ISBN: 9780979484100 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The international odyssey of an American doctor: The author is a Harvard-educated physician whose career in international medical education has taken him to more than 100 countries during the eight decades of his life. His work brought him into contact with persons in all walks of life, from presidents, kings, and the world's last emperor to the poorest of the poor, with many unusual adventures. His professional accomplishments appear in such standard reference works as Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, and Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare.
The international odyssey of an American doctor: The author is a Harvard-educated physician whose career in international medical education has taken ...
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Pioneers of Cardiac Surgery
ISBN: 9780826515940 / Angielski / Twarda / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Heart operations today are quite common and relatively low-risk, but in the beginning it was just the opposite. Cardiac operations were reserved for desperately ill patients. The author documents this dramatic transition with profiles of 38 surgeons who were active between 1940 and 1985.
The profiles are edited transcripts of interviews videotaped between 1996 and 2004. They tell of the development of new techniques such as the "blue baby operation," the first heart-lung machine, the first artificial heart valve, and the first coronary bypass operation. They also tell the unusual life... Heart operations today are quite common and relatively low-risk, but in the beginning it was just the opposite. Cardiac operations were reserved for d...
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Bettering the Health of the People: W. Reece Berryhill, the UNC School of Medicine, and the North Carolina Good Health Movement
ISBN: 9780807831953 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. W. Reece Berryhill, M.D., (1900-1979) was the founding dean from 1941 to 1964 of the M.D.-granting medical school and today's medical school-hospitals complex at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This biography documents and personalizes the remarkable transformation in daily life, medical education, and health care in North Carolina during the twentieth century. Berryhill's life story is inseparable from the story of how the state mobilized its citizens and resources in the Good Health Movement of the 1940s and 1950s to address the deplorable health status of its citizens (its...
W. Reece Berryhill, M.D., (1900-1979) was the founding dean from 1941 to 1964 of the M.D.-granting medical school and today's medical school-hospitals...
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The Bullet's Yaw: Reflections on Violence, Healing and an Unforgettable Stranger
ISBN: 9780595476480 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jeffrey Mains was in shock.
During a vengeful rampage, a deranged former security guard had fired a hollow point bullet into Mains' truck. The bullet's path through steel slowed its velocity, causing it to tumble sideways when it collided with Mains, a phenomenon that ballistics experts call the "bullet's yaw." The bullet's impact and ensuing yaw were over in a blink, but the effects were profound. Mains' bowel was pierced and leaking, his liver lacerated and one diaphragm ruptured. When the ambulance arrived, Jeffrey Mains was nearly unconscious; he was bleeding internally and desperately... Jeffrey Mains was in shock.
During a vengeful rampage, a deranged former security guard had fired a hollow point bullet into Mains' truck. The bull... |
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Movement: A Memoir of Disability, Cancer, and the Holocaust
ISBN: 9780786437832 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As William Roth was taking his first steps, members of his family were being murdered in Nazi concentration camps. At age four, he began to manifest the symptoms of dystonia, a neurological disease characterized by severe movement disorders. And at age 47, he was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of the tonsil, a cancer that would prove as invasive as his genetic disease and as dreadful as his social persecution.
As William Roth was taking his first steps, members of his family were being murdered in Nazi concentration camps. At age four, he began to manifest t...
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Fire on the Prairie: The Life and Times of Andrew Taylor Still, Founder of Osteopathic Medicine
ISBN: 9781601453617 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This historical novel set in late 19th-century America focuses on the life of Andrew Still and the establishment of osteopathic medicine.
This historical novel set in late 19th-century America focuses on the life of Andrew Still and the establishment of osteopathic medicine.
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One Doctor's Odyssey: The Social Lesion
ISBN: 9781845492762 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir Donald was born in Belfast in 1926; his father was a medical doctor, who specialised in public health, and his mother was the daughter of a Tyneside ship builder. During World War I, Sir Donald's father had been involved in dealing with the epidemic of syphilis which was on such a scale that at one point it was thought possible it would stop the fighting due to lack of troops. His precepts were that strict confidentiality and speedy treatment without embarrassment were the keystones to success in dealing with sexually transmitted disease. Sixty years later these precepts became the...
Sir Donald was born in Belfast in 1926; his father was a medical doctor, who specialised in public health, and his mother was the daughter of a Tynesi...
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The Cup That Divides
ISBN: 9781847482167 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through a series of events taken from her own life, Bailey here demonstrates that the power of God is still alive and well, and that miracles are not confined to the Old Testament. Through her belief in God, she has been chosen to witness certain visions and signs of His love in order to provide comfort and guidance to herself and her loved ones. At the same time she has produced an appealing portrait of life as a nurse in England during and after the Second World War. C M Bailey trained for two years in orthopaedics and four years in general nursing to gain her Hospital and State...
Through a series of events taken from her own life, Bailey here demonstrates that the power of God is still alive and well, and that miracles are not ...
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Rocke Robertson: Surgeon and Shepherd of Change
ISBN: 9780773533745 / Angielski / Twarda / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rocke Robertson was a McGill-trained surgeon who served at the front lines in the Sicilian and Italian campaigns in World War II. Post-war experience led him to the height of the medical profession and appointment as Chief of the Department of Surgery at McGill and Surgeon-in-Chief at the Montreal General Hospital. From those posts, he was named Principal of McGill University, the first of its graduates to hold the office. Apart from the usual demanding job of managing faculty, students and alumni and the general business of the University, he was plunged into the midst of political upheaval...
Rocke Robertson was a McGill-trained surgeon who served at the front lines in the Sicilian and Italian campaigns in World War II. Post-war experience ...
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This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor
ISBN: 9781586486471 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "This Common Secret" Dr. Susan Wicklund chronicles her emotional and dramatic twenty-year career on the front lines of the abortion war. Growing up in working class, rural Wisconsin, Wicklund had her own painful abortion at a young age. It was not until she became a doctor that she realized how many women shared her ordeal of an unwanted pregnancy--and how hidden this common experience remains.
This is the story of Susan's love for a profession that means listening to women and helping them through one of the most pivotal and controversial events in their lives. Hers is also a calling... In "This Common Secret" Dr. Susan Wicklund chronicles her emotional and dramatic twenty-year career on the front lines of the abortion war. Growing up...
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Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele
ISBN: 9781845117207 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele tells for the first time the riveting life-story of an extraordinary individual, who came to define the times he lived in. The precociously bright son of a Swedish pharmacist, Axel Munthe worked under Jean Martin Charcot, and in 1880, became the youngest doctor in French history. By the 1890s, he was world-famous for his healing powers, believed by some to be supernatural. He moved in the most colourful and exalted circles of fin-de-siecle Europe, counting amongst his friends Henry James, Howard Carter, Rainer Maria Rilke, Lady Ottoline... Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele tells for the first time the riveting life-story of an extraordinary individual, who came to define the... |
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Memory Is a Dwelling Place
ISBN: 9780615169347 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Breast Stays Put: No Chemo-No Radiation-No Lumpectomy-No Thank You
ISBN: 9781604771039 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After running her own successful business in Wellness Alternatives, Hoeppner was diagnosed with a malignant, fast-growing breast cancer. In her inspiring book, she shares her courageous story of overcoming a deadly diagnosis, and provides prevention and treatment information. (Practical Life)
After running her own successful business in Wellness Alternatives, Hoeppner was diagnosed with a malignant, fast-growing breast cancer. In her inspir...
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The Day Donny Herbert Woke Up: A True Story
ISBN: 9780307383174 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The remarkable story of a reman who miraculously came out of a coma for one full day
On a brutally cold December day, Donny Herbert, a hardworking re ghter from Buffalo, New York, was searching the attic of a burning house. The roof, heavy with snow, suddenly collapsed, and for six minutes he was without oxygen. Donny a beloved husband, a father of four boys, and a neighborhood xture who was always willing to lend a helping hand fell into a vegetative state that lasted nearly a decade. His prognosis was poor, and while he could open his eyes, he was unresponsive to the world around him.... The remarkable story of a reman who miraculously came out of a coma for one full day
On a brutally cold December day, Donny Herbert, a hardworking... |
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Sick Girl
ISBN: 9780802143877 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The hardcover publication of "Sick Girl" garnered tremendous attention, generated impressive sales, andignited controversy.Both inspiringand provocative, reactions to the book ranged from inflammatory posts on a U.S. News & World Report blog, to hundreds of letters from readers, toa full-page review in "People." Amy s force, candor, and her refusal to be the thankful patient from whom weexpect undilutedgratitude for the medical treatments that have extendedher life, have put her at the center of a debate on patientrights and the omnipotent power of doctors. At twenty-four, Amy was a typical...
The hardcover publication of "Sick Girl" garnered tremendous attention, generated impressive sales, andignited controversy.Both inspiringand provocati...
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Crashing Through: The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See
ISBN: 9780812973686 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision. Then, in 1999, a chance encounter brought startling news: a revolutionary stem cell transplant surgery could restore May s vision. It would allow him to drive, to read, to see his children s faces. But the procedure was filled with gambles, some of them deadly, others beyond May s wildest dreams. Beautifully written and thrillingly told,...
Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the...
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The Long and Tumultuous Journey of My Life
ISBN: 9781425742409 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Memoir entitled 'The Long and Tumultuous Journey of My Life" consists of 183 pages with 112 interior pictures, most of immediate family pictures. It contains 10 chapters. Chapter One: portrays the first 24 years of author's personal and professional life. It illustrates the difficulty of author's life living in desolated area because of his father military assignments. It shows author's anxiety about the Second World War and occupation of his beloved country by foreign troops. It also gives information about his personal life, his immediate family, Persian traditions and customs and his...
This Memoir entitled 'The Long and Tumultuous Journey of My Life" consists of 183 pages with 112 interior pictures, most of immediate family pictures....
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Paracelsus: Medicine, Magic and Mission at the End of Time
ISBN: 9780300139112 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), better known as Paracelsus, was a physician, natural magician, radical activist of the early Reformation, and commentator on the social and religious issues of his day. This elegantly written book is the defining account of the man known as "Paracelsus the Great." Drawing on the whole range of relevant manuscript and printed sources, Charles Webster considers Paracelsus's life and works, explores his advocacy for total reform of the clerical, legal, and medical professions, and describes his precise expectations for the Christian church of the...
Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), better known as Paracelsus, was a physician, natural magician, radical activist of the early Reformation, and ...
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