Overview :Henrietta Lacks a poor Southern tobacco farmer was buried in an unmarked grave sixty years ago. Yet her cells -- taken without her knowledge... Read More
Overview :Discover the "dazzling...fascinating" (Los Angeles Times) novel that launched the New York Times bestselling Kay Scarpetta series from #1 be... Read More
Overview :Ten Days in A Mad-House, Was Written By Nellie Bly in 1887, after she lived, undercover, at a women's insane asylum at Blackwell's Island in... Read More
Overview :#1 New York Times bestseller "Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history.... Read More
Overview :Nearly two decades after it closed, the South Carolina State Hospital continues to hold a palpable mystique in Columbia and throughout the s... Read More
Overview :Little more than one hundred years ago, maps of the world still boasted white space: places where no human had ever trod. Within a few short... Read More
Overview :"Comprehensive, encyclopedic, and lucid, this book is a must for all practitioners of the healing arts who want to broaden their understandi... Read More
Overview :Here David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the di... Read More
Overview :The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year From the Pulitzer P... Read More
Overview :"Although When Death Becomes Life is about courage and innovation and dedication, it is foremost a book about hope.... This monumental and e... Read More
Overview :The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also... Read More
Overview :In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belong... Read More
Overview :Covers the history of twelve important diseases and addresses public health responses and societal upheavals.Chronicles the ways disease out... Read More
Overview :What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morp... Read More
Overview :An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through the eyes of its longtime Director of Intens... Read More