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  • Tragedy to Triumph

    The Story of Tom’s Heart

    Tragedy to Triumph—The Story of Tom's Heart provides an up-close and personal look at the journeys of two individuals facing death as they present their individual perspectives as the donor family and the recipient.There are very few stories in life that grip you like the loss of a child. When that story hits home, it can feel like your very heart is being ripped out. This story is about life and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Organic Psychoses

    A Guide to Diagnosis

    Series series Heritage
    Psychoses due to physical disturbances involving the brain are common and can complicate a bewildering variety of illnesses. Patients with such disorders may be encountered in general practice, emergency wards, medical services, on the surgical ward, post-operatively as well as in psychiatric clinics and of course in mental hospitals. A specialist in psychiatry and a specialist in internal ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • L' Acte chirurgical

    Un des grands noms de la chirurgie cardiovasculaire, Jean-Paul Binet, a voulu embrasser sa discipline dans sa généralité (le travail de la main), mais aussi en montrer la prodigieuse diversité, les progrès et les transformations. À le suivre, le lecteur est invité à dépasser le sentiment mêlé de fascination et d'effroi qu'inspire parfois cette branche de la médecine. Membre des Académies de ... Read more

    $16.49 USD

  • Recovering from Breast Surgery

    Exercises to Strengthen Your Body and Relieve Pain

    by Diana Stumm ...
    A practical guide for women to accelerate and ease recovery from breast cancer surgery and other breast-related surgeries offers exercises to strengthen the body and relieve pain, uses real women's stories as examples, and addresses emotional issues involved. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mortal Lessons

    Notes on the Art of Surgery

    A surgeon shares true stories of life, death, and the human body in an essay collection that “will nail you to your chair” (Saturday Review).With settings ranging from the operating theater to a Korean ambulance, and topics as varied as the disposition of a corpse and the author’s own childhood, these nineteen captivating, wry, and intimate vignettes offer a poignant examination of health, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Letters to a Young Doctor

    A timeless collection of advice, operating-room wisdom, and reflections on the practice of medicine, from the “best of the writing surgeons” (Chicago Tribune).“Richard Selzer does for medicine what Jacques Cousteau does for the sea,” raved The New York Times of this extraordinary collection. “He transports the reader to a world that most of us never see, a world that is vivid and powerful, often ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Neurosurgery

    In Its Scientific and Professional Contexts

    A History of Neurosurgery is the first thorough book on the history of neurosurgery published since 1951. The book is organized around a specific historiographic framework that traces the advancement of the specialty. Included are chapters on ancient trepanation, Macewen's first use of the combined technologies of anesthesia, antisepsis and cortical localization in 1879 to plan and perform ... Read more

    $112.99 USD

  • Ulykken

    Series series Læseværkstedet
    Peter arbejder på et kontor. Han har altid meget travlt. Chefen vil gerne have, at han arbejder meget. Men Peter har også familie. En dag skal han hente sin søn Anders i børnehaven efter en travl arbejdsdag. Han er sent på den, og så går det galt.Bogen udkom oprindeligt i 1995 som en del af serien Læseværkstedet på Special-pædagogisk forlag. Den henvender sig til børn, unge og voksne med ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Xeno: The Promise of Transplanting Animal Organs into Humans

    The plight of a patient waiting months, sometimes years, for an organ transplant is one of the most heart-wrenching predicaments confronting medicine today. But the current critical shortage of human donor organs has had one positive consequence: it has stimulated promising new research into the field of xenotransplantation--the transplantation of organs from one animal species to another. In Xeno ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Arterial Circulation

    Physical Principles and Clinical Applications

    by John K-J Li ...
    After yet another decade of leaming, experimenting, and inves tigating since my first book, Arterial System Dynamics, the many new medical breakthroughs and technological advances have inspired me to write this book to bridge the gap between basic research and clinical applications. The application of physical principles and quantitative approaches to the understanding of the arterial circulation ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Minimally Invasive Abdominal Surgery

    Series series Atlas of Operative Surgery: Surgical Anatomy, Indications, Techniques, Complications
    Step-by-step, full-color approaches and tactical guidelines on new minimally invasive proceduresMagnificently illustrated with clear depictions of key anatomic relationships, this new surgical atlas covers all minimally invasive abdominal procedures as well as combined endoluminal and endocavitary operations. A systematic organization of test and illustrations that facilitates the choice between ... Read more

    $148.99 USD

  • Surgical Research

    With the recent changes in the health care industry, surgeons face increasing pressure to devote their time to their clinical activities, thus limiting their research efforts. It is essential that young and creative individuals are encouraged to perform research and are given incentives to participate in research under the mentorship of more experienced research investigators.Surgical Research is ... Read more

    $391.99 USD

  • Lung Volume Reduction Surgery

    A panel of recognized authorities comprehensively review the medical, surgical, and pathophysiologic issues relevant to lung volume reduction surgery for emphysema. Topics range from the open technique and video-assisted thoracoscopic approaches to LVRS, to anesthetic management, to perioperative and nursing care of the patient. The experts also detail the selection of candidates for LVRS, the ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Vaginal Hysterectomy

    Edited by Shirish S Sheth, John Studd ...
    In recent years advances in laparoscopic technologies have led to renewed interest in the vaginal approach to hysterectomy, which has many proven benefits for patients. This volume, dedicated to explaining and promoting the vaginal route of hysterectomy, is written and edited by an international team of experts and provides a much-needed source of ... Read more

    $325.99 USD

  • Pediatric Orthopedic Deformities

    Specific operative and nonoperative techniques and their results are stressed. The book is extensively illustrated with drawings, most of which were made for this book, microscopy photos, and serial radiographs. The reader learns of pediatric orthopedic deformity in relation to normal and abnormal developmental biology, the worsening of untreated disease with growth, and the diagnostic and ... Read more

    $265.99 USD

  • Raising the Dead

    Organ Transplants, Ethics, and Society

    by Ronald Munson ...
    Perhaps no medical breakthrough in the twentieth century is more spectacular, more hope-giving, or more fraught with ethical questions than organ transplantation. Each year some 25,000 Americans are pulled back from the brink of death by receiving vital new organs. Another 5,000 die while waiting for them. And what distinguishes these two groups has become the source of one of our thorniest ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Operative Neurosurgical Anatomy

    This book presents neurosurgical anatomy by detailing approaches on cadavers in the same position patients would be placed in during a real operative procedure. Anatomy is described in:all commonly used cranial and cranial base approachesanterior, posterior, anterolateral and posterolateral approaches to all segments of the spineall commonly performed procedures on peripheral nervesendoscopic ... Read more

    $112.99 USD

  • Hip Replacement

    Current Trends and Controversies

    by Raj K. Sinha ...
    Hip Replacement offers useful strategies tochoose the appropriate biomaterials and implant structureavoid complications in hip replacement surgeryanalyze the bone-biomaterial interfaceperform difficult hip reconstructionstrack in vivo performance of hip prostheticsinhibi ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Cleft Lip and Palate

    From Origin to Treatment

    Edited by Diego F. Wyszynski ...
    Majoradvances in the diagnosis and treatment of oral clefts have been made in the past 50 years, and recent genetics and epidemiological studies have led to new theories about the causes of cleft lip and palate. Addressing issues that are relevant to clinicians, researchers and family members, this book is a comprehensive, well-illustrated, and up-to-date account of the many facets of this common ... Read more

    $197.99 USD

  • What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM): Circumcision

    Untold Facts on America's Most Widely Perfomed-and Most Unnecessary-Surgery

    This guide aims to explode the myths and misinformation about circumcision in an accessible, easy-to-read format. After describing the anatomy of the penis, the book explains the procedure, describes the risks associated and debunks the six most common reasons doctors will give when recommending it. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Color Atlas of Microsurgery of Acoustic Neurinomas

    Endoscope-Assisted Techniques - Neuronavigational Techniques - Radiosurgery

    An extensively illustrated surgical atlas from pioneers of the technique!In Wolfgang Koos' final work, a lifetime of experience in the surgical treatment of the acoustic neurinoma is presented in the style of the brilliantly successful Koos-Spetzler microneurosurgery series.Diagnosis is a strong point of this atlas, as surgical strategies are planned according to the anatomic location and growth ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Surgical Critical Care Vivas

    by Mazyar Kanani ...
    An understanding of critical care is one of the key objectives of medical and surgical training, and viva examinations in particular remain a source of anxiety for many candidates. Surgical Critical Care Vivas follows the same format as the hugely popular General Pathology Vivas and gives candidates a means of practising some of the most common questions that they will be asked in their viva ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Seeing Space

    Spatial vision is a subject in which philosophy, psychology, ophthalmology, neurophysiology and pathology meet. It is the unique contribution of this book that gives a survey of the whole subject, in historical perspective. The author, a former professor of ophthalmology at the University of Amsterdam, is an authority in the field of binocular visi ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Complications

    A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

    by Atul Gawande ...
    A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine.Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD