Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations
By: Arnold van de Laar
4.15
Format: 357 pages, Paperback
In Under the Knife, surgeon Arnold Van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell the wi…
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1. Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage
By: Hazel Rowley
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt’s marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized part… read more
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2. The Hidden White House: Harry Truman and the Reconstruction of America’s Most Famous Residence
By: Robert Klara
4.00
Format: 50 pages, Hardcover
Critically acclaimed author Robert Klara leads readers through an unmatched tale of political ambit… read more
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3. The House of God
By: John Updike , Samuel Shem
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
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4. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
By: Atul Gawande , None
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medic… read more
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5. Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
By: Henry Marsh
3.69
Format: 192 pages,
What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cu… read more
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6. The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The gripping story of how Joseph Lister's antiseptic method changed medicine forever In The Butcher… read more
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7. Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table
By: Stephen Westaby
4.21
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
An incredible memoir from one of the world's most eminent heart surgeons and some of the most remar… read more
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8. Blood and Guts A History of Surgery by Hollingham, Richard
By: Richard Hollingham
3.91
Format: 318 pages,
Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making face transplants, limb transplants and a host … read more
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9. How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes
By: Cody Cassidy
4.06
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
A detailed guide to surviving history’s most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to maki… read more
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10. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
By: Neil Bradbury
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more
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"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
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11. The Facemaker
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
4.29
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
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12. The Seven Ages of Death
By: Richard Shepherd
4.38
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Conducting many thousands of post-mortems has given Dr Richard Shepherd the opportunity to examine … read more
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13. Heart: A History
By: Sandeep Jauhar
4.07
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
The heart lies at the centre of every facet of our existence. It’s so bound up with our deepest fee… read more
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"For even if the heart is not the seat of the emotions, it is highly responsive to them."-Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: A History
"Continuous blood flow is antithetical to the way that humans, pulsatile beings, evolved. Though continuous flow can keep us alive, it alters ours physiology in idiosyncratic and unpredictable ways."-Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: A History
"In many ways, the heart does resemble a house. It is divided into multiple chambers, separated by doors. The walls have a characteristic texture. The house is old, designed over many millennia. Hidde…"-Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: A History
"Traditional" Japanese immigrants had coronary disease rates in line with their homeland counterparts. "Westernised" immigrants had a prevalence that was at least 3 times higher. "Retention of Japanes…"-Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: A History
14. Murder: The Biography
By: Kate Morgan
4.00
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
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15. Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations
By: Arnold van de Laar
4.15
Format: 357 pages, Paperback
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16. Beklaute Frauen
By: Leonie Schöler
4.64
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
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17. The Invention of Surgery: A History of Modern Medicine: From the Renaissance to the Implant Revolution
By: David Schneider
3.75
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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18. The Knife’s Edge: The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon
By: Stephen Westaby
4.30
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
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19. Kopfarbeit: Ein Gehirnchirurg über den schmalen Grat zwischen Leben und Tod | Der SPIEGEL-Bestseller jetzt im Taschenbuch (German Edition)
By: Peter Vajkoczy
4.51
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
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20. Keine halben Sachen: Wie die Notaufnahme den Blick aufs Leben verändert
By: Carola Holzner
4.34
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Keine halben Sachen. Die Notärztin Carola Holzner spricht Klartext. Dabei bleibt sie immer sie selb… read more
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21. Das Mädchen mit den zwei Blutgruppen: Unglaubliche Fallgeschichten aus der Medizin. Erweiterte Neuausgabe (German Edition)
By: Martina Frei
3.57
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
Wussten Sie, dass sich eine verrutschte Kunstlinse durch eine Fahrt mit der Achterbahn wieder in di… read more
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