Titres dans Médecine

A “delightfully macabre” (The New York Times) Cold War medical history about a brilliant and eccentric surgeon and his quest to transplant the human soul. In the early days of the Cold War, a spirit of desperate scientific rivalry birthed a different kind of space race: not the race to outer...

This program includes an introduction read by the author. “Mikita Brottman is one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction.” —The New York Times Book Review Critically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers literary true crime writing at its best, taking us into...

Horrifying, heartbreaking and eye-opening, these are the stories, the patients and the cases that have characterised a career spent behind bars. The no-holds-barred memoirs of a GP who went from working at a quiet suburban practice to treating the country’s most dangerous criminals - first in young offenders’ institutions, then at the notorious Wormwood Scrubs and finally at Europe’s largest women-only prison in Europe, Bronzefield.

When Hassan Torabi arrived in Denmark as a refugee from Iran, he quickly became the big hope of the local wrestling club. When he participated in the first Danish reality TV show, the Danish version of “Survivor”, he became known throughout the country as the warm and helpful man who had...

Wir erleben einen radikalen globalen Stimmungswechsel. Die Gewissheiten der letzten Jahrzehnte bröckeln, und viele von uns blicken mit Sorge auf eine Welt, die zunehmend unvorhersehbar scheint. In seinem beeindruckenden Sachhörbuch-Debüt entwirft der Host des Erfolgspodcasts Die Peter Thiel Story ein hellwichtiges Szenario für die Zeit nach der Krise.

***** Berlingske ***** Journalisten Elizabeth Holmes (f. 1984) har altid været bange for nåle. Hendes livsmission var at opfinde en nem, smertefri og billig metode til at tage blodprøver, der kunne afdække en lang række sygdomme. Som 19-årig droppede hun ud af universitetet og stiftede...

Reversing Time illustrates Dr. Sashi Kuppala’s two-year-long personal journey to lower his biological age through science-based lifestyle choices. In this book, he explains why biological age matters and how exercise, nutrition, stress reduction, and targeted supplements led to measurable improvements in his biological age. Each strategy is examined honestly, including what worked, what didn’t, and why. The narrative combines medical insights with personal experience rather than abstract theories.

A psychotherapist with terminal cancer approaches the end of his life with the understanding that he is being called home and that cancer is the body’s response to the call to facilitate the journey. How he comes to this realization is documented as a journey starting when he discovered Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and psychedelic medicine work in the same year, 20 years before his diagnosis.

'There is something very special about finding a spectacular objective, looking forward to it for a long time and then achieving exactly what one has set out to do.' Newly retired and immersed in the logistical and bureaucratic maze of planning an expedition to Chombu–an unclimbed Himalayan peak in the Indian state of Sikkim–Mick Fowler's life is turned upside down by a cancer diagnosis.

The most transformative memoir you will read this year - a radical, fiercely compassionate journey to reclaim the narrative around mental health. UnSound is an astoundingly brave, deeply moving memoir of life as a voice hearer and one woman’s battle to reshape how we understand the human mind...

Near shipwrecks, exotic wild animals, nasty tropical diseases, and dedicated mission work. Follow Anna from her childhood in Illinois to India and China as she seeks to serve her Lord as a missionary and doctor for over 50 years.

Nach einer Routineoperation wacht eine junge Krankenschwester während der Narkose auf. Sie hört Stimmen, spürt Berührungen und erlebt die Operation bei vollem Bewusstsein, unfähig, sich zu bewegen oder bemerkbar zu machen. Was als medizinischer Albtraum beginnt, zerstört nach und nach ihr gesamtes Leben. Panikattacken, Angst und verdrängte Erinnerungen aus der Kindheit brechen mit voller Wucht hervor. Während sie gegen Ärzte, Gutachter und ein Krankenhaus kämpft, beginnt gleichzeitig eine viel tiefere Reise: die Suche nach der Wahrheit über sich selbst.

From Ada Lovelace to Florence Nightingale, Rosalind Franklin to Tu Youyou—discover the women who changed science forever Imagine a scientist. White lab coat and goggles . . . check! A passing resemblance to Albert Einstein . . . yes, that too. So, most likely it's a man. However, from...

This is Emily Blooms journey towards and through motherhood, a path that has become, for the average woman, laden with data and medical technology. Emily faces decisions regarding genetic testing and diagnosis, technologies that offer the illusion of certainty but carry the weight of hard...

One of the most influential living psychologists looks at the history of his life and discipline, and paints a much brighter future for everyone. When Martin E. P. Seligman first encountered psychology in the 1960s, the field was devoted to eliminating misery: it was the science of how past...

For readers of Atul Gawande and Jerome Groopman, a book of beautifully crafted stories about what life is like for patients kept alive by modern medical technology. Modern medicine is a world that glimmers with new technology and cutting-edge research. To the public eye, medical stories often...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER For readers of Andrew Solomon's Far From the Tree and Ian Brown's The Boy in the Moon, here is a heartfelt, funny and surprising memoir about one year spent driving a bus full of children with special needs. One morning in 2008, desperate, broke and living alone while trying...

In the early hours of Thursday 19 March 2020, the luxury cruise liner Ruby Princess docked at Sydney's Circular Quay, the gateway to Australia. Hours later, 2700 passengers disembarked. Yet in the middle of a pandemic sweeping the planet, there were no health checks. Over the next few days, the...

It is 1941. While the "war of chaos" rages in the skies above London, an unending fight against violence, murder and the criminal underworld continues on the streets below. One ordinary day, in an ordinary courtroom, forensic pathologist Dr. Keith Simpson asks a keen young journalist to be his...

A book for psychotherapists and their clients — and for anyone who wants to make the journey from shame to unshame. Carolyn Spring, author of ‘Recovery is my best revenge: my experience of trauma, abuse and dissociative identity disorder’, documents in this, her second book, her journey through psychotherapy to heal and resolve trauma-based shame, which had resulted in a catastrophic mental breakdown in her early thirties and an eventual diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder (DID).