Autobiography: science, technology & medicine
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Dispatches from the land of Alzheimer’s
£16.99Dispatches from the land of Alzheimer’s
Daniel Gibbs is a retired neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease in 2015. This book presents a hopeful and humane collection of essays written over the past two years about his own experience of navigating the disease and advances in research.
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Everything Is True
£9.99Everything Is True
In early 2020, junior doctor Roopa Farooki lost her sister to cancer. But just weeks later, she found herself plunged into another kind of crisis, fighting on the frontline of the battle taking place in her hospital, and in hospitals across the country. ‘Everything is True’ is the story of Roopa’s first 40 days of the Covid-19 crisis from the frontlines of A&E and the acute medical wards, as struggling through her grief, she battles for her patients’ and colleagues’ survival. Working 13 hour shifts, she returns home each evening to write through her exhaustion, chronicling the devastating losses and slowly eroding dehumanisation happening in real time on the ward.
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Gray matters
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How Stella Learned to Talk
£9.99How Stella Learned to Talk
A pioneering speech therapist’s memoir of her groundbreaking work in communicating with dogs, from social media sensation Christina Hunger and her dog, Stella.
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In two minds
£12.99In two minds
Shocking, eye-opening and grimly fascinating, these are the true stories, patients and cases that have characterised a career spent treating mentally disordered offenders. As a forensic psychiatrist, it’s Dr Das’s job to treat and rehabilitate what the tabloids might call the ‘criminally insane’, many of whom assault, rob, rape, and even kill. His work takes him to high-security prisons and securely locked hospital wards across the country, as well as inside courtrooms, giving evidence as an expert witness. In this honest, revealing and at times humorous memoir, Dr Das shares stories from his fifteen years as a psychiatric doctor working with this dangerous clientele, detailing some of his most extreme, heart-breaking and bizarre cases – and how he’s learned to live with his mistakes when the worse happens.
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Source code
£25.00Source code
‘Source Code’ describes with unprecedented candour Bill Gates’ life from his childhood in Seattle to dropping out of Harvard aged 20 in 1975. Shortly afterwards he wrote, with Paul Allen, the programme which became the foundation of Microsoft and eventually for the entire software industry, changing the way the world works and lives. Gates writes about the centrality of family to his life – his encouraging grandmother and ambitious parents, about struggles to fit in, his rebelliousness, and the impact on him of the death of his closest friend. We see his extraordinary mind developing as a teenager, his excitement about the rapidly emerging technology of computing, and the earliest signs of his phenomenal business acumen. ‘Source Code’ is a warm, wise and revealing self-portrait of one of the most influential people of our age.
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Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman!
£10.99Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman!
Richard Feynman was one of the world’s greatest theoretical physicists. Over a period of years, Feynman’s conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate and totally honest self-portrait.
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Vital organs
£12.99Vital organs
The remarkable stories of the world’s most famous body parts. Louis XIV’s rear end inspired the British National Anthem. Queen Victoria’s armpit led to the development of antiseptics. Robert Jenkin’s ear started a war. All too often, historical figures feel distant and abstract; more myth and legend than real flesh and blood. These stories of bodies and its parts remind us that history’s most-loved, and most-hated, were real breathing creatures who inhabited organs and limbs just like us – until they’re cut off that is. Medical historian Dr Suzie Edge investigates over 40 cases of how we’ve used, abused, dug up, displayed, experimented on, and worshipped body parts, including why Percy Shelley’s heart refused to burn; how Yao Niang’s toes started a 1000 year long ritual; why a giant’s bones are making us rethink medical ethics; and the strange case of Hitler’s right testicle.
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You don’t have to be mad to work here
£18.99You don’t have to be mad to work here
A woman with bipolar flies from America in a wedding dress to marry Harry Styles. A lorry driver with schizophrenia believes he’s got a cure for coronavirus. A depressed psychiatrist hides his profession from his GP due to stigma. Most of the characters in this book are his patients. Some of them are his family. One of them is him. Unlocking the doors to the psych ward, NHS psychiatrist Dr Benji Waterhouse provides a fly-on-the-padded-wall account of medicine’s most mysterious and controversial speciality. Why would anyone in their right mind choose to be a psychiatrist? Are the solutions to people’s messy lives really within medical school textbooks? And how can vulnerable patients receive the care they need when psychiatry lacks staff, hospital beds and any actual cures?
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