Can Medicine Be Cured? - The Corruption of a Profession by Seamus O'Mahony
$25.00 NZD
Category: Medicine
A fierce, honest, elegant and often hilarious debunking of the great fallacies that drive modern medicine. 'A deeply fascinating and rousing book'Mail on Sunday. 'What makes this book a delightful, if unsettling read, is not just O'Mahony's scholarly and witty prose, but also his brutal honesty'The Ti ...Show more
The Cause of Death by Cynric Temple-Camp
$29.99 NZD
Category: Medicine
Spontaneous combustion and exhumation, drug mules and devil worshippers, a gruesome killing beneath the Palmerston North Airport control tower, a mysterious death in a historic homestead, a first-hand dissection of the infamous Mark Lundy case ... In The Cause of Death, provincial pathologist Dr Cynric ...Show more
Assessment of Mental Capacity by Alison Douglas
$50.00 NZD
Category: Medicine
The ability to make decisions and take actions that influence our life is critically important and ranges from simple everyday choices about what to have for breakfast, to far-reaching decisions about health care, personal or financial matters. When our ability to make our own decisions is impaired, whe ...Show more
How Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon by Joshua Mezrich
$36.99 NZD
Category: Medicine
Gripping and evocative, How Death Becomes Life takes us inside the operating room and presents the stark dilemmas that transplant surgeons must face daily: How much risk should a healthy person be allowed to take to save someone she loves? Should a patient suffering from alcoholism receive a healthy liv ...Show more
The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
$28.99 NZD
Category: Medicine
One of the top ten greatest doctors in the world looks at the lowly checklist, and how this simple idea - which is free to reproduce - will revolutionise the way we approach problems, and help save lives. Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly place in the hands ...Show more
Seven Signs of Life by Aoife Abbey
$24.00 NZD
Category: Medicine
An insightful, tender and inspiring memoir that explores the emotional side of a doctor's working life. 'Brilliant, compelling ... A hugely life-affirming book' Mail on Sunday Grief. Anger. Joy. Fear. Distraction. Disgust. Hope. All emotions we expect to encounter over our lifetime. But what if this ...Show more
Anxiety by Mark Cross
$35.00 NZD
Category: Medicine
Expert advice from a neurotic shrink who's lived with it all his life Consultant psychiatrist Dr Mark Cross knows a lot about anxiety. Many of his patients are sufferers, which is hardly surprising, given anxiety is the most common mental health condition in Australia, affecting up to one in four peo ...Show more