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Medicine and Psychology
Medicine Gifted Hands, Ben Carson
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Dr. Ben Carson is known around the world for breakthroughs in neurosurgery that have brought hope where no hope existed. In this book he tells of his inspiring odyssey from his childhood to his position as director of paediatric neurosurgery at age 33. Taking you into the operating room where he has saved countless lives, Ben Carson is a role model for anyone who attempts the seemingly impossible. Dear Life: A doctor’s story of love and loss, Rachel Clarke
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As a specialist in palliative medicine, Dr Rachel Clarke chooses to inhabit a place many people would find too tragic to contemplate. Every day she tries to bring care and comfort to those reaching the end of their lives and to help make dying more bearable.
Unbecoming Jenny Downham
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Katie's life is falling apart: her mum's controlling, her dad's run off, she's in love with someone whose identity she can't reveal and now her estranged grandmother's turned up on the doorstep and Katie's expected to take care of her. A story about family and dementia.
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Medical Ethics Michael Dunn and Tony Hope This area of ethics covers a wide range of issues, from mental health to reproductive medicine, as well as including management issues such as resource allocation, and has proven to hold enduring interest for the general public as well as the medical practitioner. 174.2
Bad Pharma Ben Goldacre
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Ben Goldacre is Britain’s finest writer on the science behind medicine, and Bad Pharma is the book that finally prompted Parliament to ask why all trial results aren’t made publicly available. Let the witty and indefatigable Goldacre show you how medicine went wrong, and what you can do to mend it.
This is Going to Hurt Adam Kay
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Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, this book provides a noholds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heart-breaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know – and more than a few things you didn't – about life on and off the hospital ward.
Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery Henry Marsh
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Henry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical frontline. There have been highs and lows, but his love for the practice of neurosurgery has never wavered. Prompted by his retirement from his full-time job in the NHS, and through his continuing work in Nepal and Ukraine, Henry has been forced to reflect more deeply about what forty years spent handling the human brain has taught him. War Doctor : Surgery on the Front Line, David Not
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For more than 25 years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out life-saving operations and field surgery in the most challenging conditions, and with none of the resources of a major London teaching hospital.
Trust Me I'm a Junior Doctor Max Pemberton This book charts Max Pemberton's touching and funny journey through his first year in the NHS. Along the way, Max and his fellow fledgling doctors grapple with the complicated questions of life, love, mental health and how on earth to make time to do your laundry. 610.69
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole Allan Ropper and Brian David Burrell What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? In this gripping and illuminating book, Dr Allan Ropper reveals the extraordinary stories behind some of the life-altering afflictions that he and his staff are confronted with. 612.82
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells – taken without her knowledge – became a multimilliondollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine. Yet Henrietta's family did not learn of her 'immortality' until more than twenty years after her death, with devastating consequences.
Every Last Word Tamara Ireland Stone Samantha looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her class. But hidden beneath the expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off…
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Why We Sleep Mathew Walker Looking at creatures from across the animal kingdom as well as major human studies, this book delves into everything from what really happens during REM sleep to how caffeine and alcohol affect sleep and why our sleep patterns change across a lifetime. 612.821
Everything, Everything Nicola Yoon Maddy is so allergic to the outside world that she has never left the house. But with Olly moving in next door, things might be about to change. Olly writes his IM address on a piece of paper, shows it at her window, and suddenly, a door opens. But does Maddy dare to step outside her comfort zone?
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Psychology The Idiot Brain Dean Burnet
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In this book, neuroscientist Dean Burnett explains the human brain's imperfections in all their glory and how these influence everything we say, do and experience. Expertly researched and entertainingly written, this book is for anyone who has wondered why their brain appears to be sabotaging their life, and what on earth it is really up to. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? Frans De Waal
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Frans de Waal overturns the view of animals as stimulus-response beings and opens our eyes to their complex and intricate minds. With astonishing stories of animal cognition, this book challenges everything you thought you knew about animal - and human intelligence.
Thinking in Pictures Temple Grandin
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Temple Grandin is a gifted and successful animal scientist, and she is autistic. Here she tells us what it was like to grow up perceiving the world in an entirely concrete and visual way - somewhat akin to how animals think, she believes - and how it feels now. Through her finely observed understanding of the workings of her mind, she gives us an invaluable insight into autism and its challenges. Is Gender Fluid? Sally Hines
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When we are born, we are each assigned a gender based on our physical anatomy. But why is it that some people experience such dissonance between their biological sex and their inner identity? This stimulating volume assesses the connections between gender, psychology, culture and sexuality, and reveals how individual and social attitudes have evolved over the centuries.
30-Second Psychology Christian Jarret
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The key ideas in Psychology explained in half a minute. Pavlov's Dogs, Psychoanalysis, Milgram's Obedience Study, and Beck's Cognitive Therapy? Sure, you know what they all mean. That is, you've certainly heard of them. But do you know enough about these psychology theories to join a dinner party debate or dazzle the bar with your knowledge?
I Had a Black Dog Mathew Johnstone
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Winston Churchill used the term ‘Black Dog’ to describe depression. Matthew Johnstone, a sufferer himself, has written and illustrated this insight into what it is like to have a Black Dog as a companion and how he learned to tame it and bring it to heel.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey
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Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict, unbending routine. Her patients, cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy, dare not oppose her. But everything changes with the arrival of McMurphy, who challenges everyone’s beliefs about madness‌ who, of them all, is really insane?
The Language Instinct Steven Pinker
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How do babies learn to speak? Why are there so many languages? Why do we think in our mother tongue? How did language evolve? In this landmark book, Pinker explains the mysteries of language with a coherent theory: that language is an adaptation for communication.
The Gendered Brain Gina Rippon
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We live in a gendered world where we are bombarded with messages about sex and gender. Drawing on her work as a professor of cognitive neuroimaging, Gina Rippon unpacks the stereotypes that bombard us from our earliest moments and shows how these messages mould our ideas of ourselves and even shape our brains.
The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks
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These are case studies of people who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people or common objects; whose limbs have become alien; who are afflicted and yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. In Dr Sacks’s splendid and sympathetic telling, each tale is a unique and deeply human study of life struggling against incredible adversity.
Forensic Psychology Adrian J. Scot
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This introduction shows the reader how much forensic psychology informs us about every step of the criminal process. From biological, social and cognitive theories of crime to eyewitness testimony and the penal system, this is essential reading for students seeking a deeper understanding of the key topics.
Black Box Thinking Mathew Syed Drawing on a dizzying array of case studies and real-world examples, together with cutting-edge research on marginal gains, creativity and grit, Matthew Syed tells the inside story of how success really happens - and how we cannot grow unless we are prepared to learn from our mistakes. 158.1
Art of Statistics : Learning from Data, David Spiegelhalter How many trees are there on the planet? Do busier hospitals have higher survival rates? Why do old men have big ears? Spiegelhalter reveals the answers to these and many other questions - questions that can only be addressed using statistical science. 519.5
Before I Go to Sleep S J Watson
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Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story. Welcome to Christine's life.
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