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Ethics: A Very Short Introduction

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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in med…

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Bad Science

How do we know if a treatment works, or if something causes cancer? Can the claims of homeopaths ever be as true—or as interesting—as the improbable research into the placebo effect? Who created the M…

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Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor

In the vein of the best 'blog books' - the real life story of a hapless junior doctor, based on his columns written anonymously for the Telegraph.

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In his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. These are case studies of people who have los…

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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here and here.

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Hacking the Code of Life: How gene editing will rewrite our futures

'An excellent, brisk guide to what is likely to happen as opposed to the fantastically remote.' - Los Angeles Review of Books In 2018 the world woke up to gene editing with a storm of controversy over…

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Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss

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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you.

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