With the End in Mind - Dying Death &... by Kathryn Mannix
$14.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: good-very good
What colour is cancer? Why do some people appear to have made miraculous recoveries? How can you tell when someone is in the final hours of their life? How can we ensure our most vulnerable are treated with the dignity they deserve? In this unprecedented memoir, a palliative medicine pioneer explores th ...Show more
Conversations with Neil's Brain - The neural nature of thought and language by William H. Calvin; George A. Ojemann
$15.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
A Guide to Health on Nervous and Hypochondriac Complaints, Lowness of Spirits &c. by Samuel Solomon
$80.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: good-very good
Brave New Humans - The Dirty Reality of Donor Conception by Sarah Dingle
$14.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: good
An astonishing real-life whodunnit and investigative exposé, Brave New Humans reveals the uncomfortable realities of assisted reproduction and its very human fallout. Journalist Sarah Dingle was 27 when she learnt that her identity was a lie. Over dinner one night, her mother casually mentioned Sarah ha ...Show more
The Dark Island - Leprosy in New Zealand and the Quail Island Colony by Benjamin Kingsbury
$16.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
From 1906 to 1925 Quail Island was the site of New Zealands leprosy colony. The colony began by accident, as it were, after the discovery of a leprosy sufferer in Christchurch. As further patients arrived from across the country, it grew into a controversial and troubled institution an embarrassment to ...Show more
A History of the New Zealand Medical Association - The first 100 years by R E Wright-St Clair
$25.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
Hardback with no dust jacket. 217 pages. SECONDHAND
Health and Health Care in New Zealand by Peter Davis
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
His Brother's Keeper - A Story from the Edge of Medicine by Jonathan Weiner
$16.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
From Jonathan Weiner, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Beak of the Finch, comes His Brother's Keeper -- the story of a young entrepreneur who gambles on the risky science of gene therapy to try to save his brother's life.Stephen Heywood was twenty-nine years old when he learned that he was dying of ...Show more
Sir William Petty - Portrait of a genius by E Strauss
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
The Health of the People (BWB Texts) by David Skegg
$8.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
In August 2016, forty per cent of the residents of Havelock North were suddenly struck down by a serious bacterial infection. The outbreak of campylobacter, caused by the contamination of the water supply with sheep faeces, hospitalised forty-five people and left at least three dead. Eminent public heal ...Show more
White Plague, Black Labor - Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa by Randall M. Packard
$20.00 NZD
Category: Africa | Series: Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Why does tuberculosis, a disease which is both curable and preventable, continue to produce over 50,000 new cases a year in South Africa, primarily among blacks? In answering this question Randall Packard traces the history of one of the most devastating diseases in twentieth-century Africa, against the ...Show more