Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World
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The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In The People’s Hospital , physician Ricardo Nuila’s stunning debut, we follow the lives of five uninsu…
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Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
Behind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher’s genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side…
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Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
Women have always been healers, and medicine has always been an arena of struggle between female practitioners and male professionals. This pamphlet explores two important phases in the male takeover …
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Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut
Cutting ties with a toxic family member is a crucial step away from a legacy of dysfunction and toward healing and happiness. This compassionate guide will help you embrace your decision with a sense …
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The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women
Explore real women’s tales of healthcare trauma and medical misogyny with this meticulously researched, in-depth examination of the women’s health crisis in America—and what we can do about it.
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The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It
"A must-read for every American and business leader." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBES
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On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
Written by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler--Ross this book explores the five stages of death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. It’s uses interviews and conversations to give t…
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The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER
The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to steer his patients and colleagues through a crushing pandemic and a violent summer, amidst a healthcare s…
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The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure one of the world’s deadliest plagues: tuberculos…
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Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems of black Americans
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
David Oshinsky chronicles the history of America's oldest hospital and in so doing also charts the rise of New York to the nation's preeminent city, the path of American medicine from butchery and qua…
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Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
“This is the story of one of the boldest women in American history: a self-made millionaire, a celebrity in her era, a woman beloved by her patients and despised by the men who wanted to control them.…
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I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse
This collection of true narratives reflects the dynamism and diversity of nurses, who provide the first vital line of patient care. Here, nurses remember their first “sticks,” first births, and first …
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Lia Lee was born in 1982 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderstanding, ov…
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Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
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 Intensive Care, Dr. Cory Franklin.
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Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
A new book by the Pulitzer Prize – winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity.
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In Our Migrant Souls , the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Héctor Tobar delivers a definit… -