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  • Founders

    by C. Max Lang ...
    Founders is about the development of a new College of Medicine and Teaching Hospital, located 90 miles from the parent University campus. The goal was to examine the role of senior leaders, department chairs, division chiefs, senior faculty and administrators in this venture with a focus on their vision and goals and, upon reflection, their achievements. The book discusses the role of the founders ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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    Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America

    by Gerald Posner ...
    Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald Posner reveals the heroes and villains of the trillion-dollar-a-year pharmaceutical industry and delivers “a withering and encyclopedic indictment of a drug industry that often seems to prioritize profits over patients” (The New York Times Book Review).Pharmaceutical breakthroughs such as antibiotics and vaccines rank among some ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Rigor Mortis

    How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions

    by Richard Harris ...
    An essential book to understanding whether the new miracle cure is good science or simply too good to be trueAmerican taxpayers spend $30 billion annually funding biomedical research, but over half of these studies can't be replicated due to poor experimental design, improper methods, and sloppy statistics. Bad science doesn't just hold back medical progress, it can sign the equivalent of a death ... Read more

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  • Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime

    How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare

    by Peter Gotzsche ...
    PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE THE THIRD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AFTER HEART DISEASE AND CANCER. In his latest ground-breaking book, Peter C Gotzsche exposes the pharmaceutical industries and their charade of fraudulent behaviour, both in research and marketing where the morally repugnant disregard for human lives is the norm. He convincingly draws close co ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Can Medicine Be Cured?

    The Corruption of a Profession

    by Seamus O'Mahony ...
    A fierce, honest, elegant and often hilarious debunking of the great fallacies that drive modern medicine. By the award-winning author of The Way We Die Now.Seamus O'Mahony writes about the illusion of progress, the notion that more and more diseases can be 'conquered' ad infinitum. He punctures the idiocy of consumerism, the idea that healthcare can be endlessly adapted to the wishes of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Danger Within Us

    America's Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man's Battle to Survive It

    by Jeanne Lenzer ...
    Did you know...Medical interventions have become the third leading cause of death in America.An estimated 10 percent of Americans are implanted with medical devices -- like pacemakers, artificial hips, cardiac stents, etc.The overwhelming majority of high-risk implanted devices have never undergone a single clinical trial.In The Danger Within Us, award-winning journalist Jeanne Lenzer brings these ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Best Practice

    How the New Quality Movement is Transforming Medicine

    by Charles C. Kenney ...
    Americans have always thought their healthcare system was the best in the world. But starting in the late 1990s, shocking reports emerged that showed this was far from the truth. Treatment-related deaths or "complications" were found to be the fifth leading cause of death for Americans, and hundreds of thousands of patients were being harmed by botched medical procedures.Spurred by the quality ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Truth in Small Doses

    Why We're Losing the War on Cancer-and How to Win It

    by Clifton Leaf ...
    A “brilliant” (Fortune), eye-opening history of the war on cancer, The Truth in Small Doses asks why we are losing this essential fight and charts a path forward.Over the past half century, deaths from heart disease, stroke, and so many other killers have fallen dramatically. But cancer continues to kill with abandon. In 2013, despite a four-decade “war” against the disease that has cost hundreds ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Age of Anxiety

    A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers

    by Andrea Tone ...
    Anxious Americans have increasingly pursued peace of mind through pills and prescriptions. In 2006, the National Institute of Mental Health estimated that 40 million adult Americans suffer from an anxiety disorder in any given year: more than double the number thought to have such a disorder in 2001. Anti-anxiety drugs are a billion-dollar business. Yet as recently as 1955, when the first ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Acres of Skin

    Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison

    by Allen M. Hornblum ...
    At a time of increased interest and renewed shock over the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, Acres of Skin sheds light on yet another dark episode of American medical history. In this disturbing expose, Allen M. Hornblum tells the story of Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison. ... Read more

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  • The Book of Odds

    From Lightning Strikes to Love at First Sight, the Odds of Everyday Life

    by Amram Shapiro, Louise Firth Campbell, Rosalind Wright ...
    From the popular Book of Odds website, this stylish and accessible reference book offers a fascinating peek at the probabilities that govern every aspect of human lifeDid you know that your odds of dying from drowning are higher than the odds of meeting your mate on a blind date? That the odds a child has seen Internet porn are the same as the odds a person is right-handed? That nearly one in ... Read more

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  • Partnership for Excellence

    Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals

    by Edward Shorter ...
    The University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine is North America’s largest medical school and a major health consortium, boasting nine affiliated teaching hospitals and a network of research institutes. It is where insulin was pioneered, stem cells were first discovered, and famous physicians from Vincent Lam to Sheela Basrur began their careers. But despite all its major accomplishments, the ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD