Injured Brains of Medical Minds by Narinder Kapur (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
This book provides a unique perspective on what it is like to be brain-damaged, seen through the eyes of doctors or neurosurgeons who have themselves suffered a brain injury or brain illness. Each of the personal accounts, written over the past 120 years, is accompanied by a commentary written by the au ...Show more
Spikes - Exploring the Neural Code by Fred Rieke; David Warland; Rob De Ruyter Van Steveninck; William Bialek
$85.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Series: Computational Neuroscience | Reading Level: very good
What does it mean to say that a certain set of spikes is the right answer to a computational problem? In what sense does a spike train convey information about the sensory world? Spikes begins by providing precise formulations of these and related questions about the representation of sensory signals in ...Show more
The Orbitofrontal Cortex by David H Zald; Scott L Rauch
$65.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
The orbitofrontal cortex comprises the ventral surface of the frontal lobe, and is critical for functions ranging from olfaction and emotion to learning and behavioral flexibility. Since the time of Phineas Gage, this enigmatic brain region has intrigued clinicians due to its association with personalit ...Show more
Bleed by Bill Williams
$15.00 NZD
Category: Medicine
Surviving cerebral catastrophe: a tale of the mind, mortality and modern medicine On a trip to visit Pintubi friends in the remote western desert of central Australia, GP Dr Bill Williams wakes to a nightmare. Gisela, his wife, is felled by a thunderclap headache. What are the possibilities - migraine? ...Show more
Pharmacy in New Zealand - Centennial History by Reg Combes
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Being Mortal - Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
$10.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: good
Better - A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
$12.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: good-very good
The struggle to perform well is universal, but nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores grippingly how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountabl ...Show more
Snake Oil Science - The truth about complementary and alternative medicine by R Barker Bausell
$16.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
Every year millions of people flock to complementary and alternative therapists offering a vast array of treatments ranging from acupuncture to biofeedback to urine injections. Millions more purchase over-the-counter alternative medications, such as glucosamine, herbs, and homeopathic remedies. While co ...Show more
The Good Doctor - What patients want by Ron Paterson
$14.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
What makes a good doctor? Are there really bad doctors out there? If so, how can we patients protect ourselves? Can more information, more trust and more assured competence be injected into the medical system to solve these problems? Drawing on his years of dealing with patient concerns, former Health a ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of National Women’s Hospital : a history by Linda Bryder
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
A history of National Women’s Hospital that also tells a wider story of reproduction, motherhood and women’s health in twentieth-century New Zealand. Natural childbirth and rooming in; artificial insemination and in vitro fertilisation; sterilisation and abortion: women’s health and reproduction went th ...Show more
Killing Us Softly - The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine by Paul Offit
$14.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
More people than ever are using alternative medicine. But, as expert Dr Paul Offit explains, these untested therapies are ineffective, expensive and even deadly. Now that homeopathic remedies are offered on the NHS, it's clear that various therapies once considered alternative or complementary, have bec ...Show more
Things That Matter - Stories of Life and Death by David Galler
$10.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: good
In this highly articulate, down to earth, generous and thoughtful book, Dr David Galler tells stories of life and death from his position as head of intensive care at a busy city hospital. Weaving his own personal stories throughout - including the death of his parents - David frames a number of chapte ...Show more