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  • Working with Paper

    Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge

    Edited by Elaine Leong, Christine von Oertzen, Carla Bittel ...
    Series series Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
    Working with Paper builds on a growing interest in the materials of science by exploring the gendered uses and meanings of paper tools and technologies, considering how notions of gender impacted paper practices and in turn how paper may have structured knowledge about gender. Through a series of dynamic investigations covering Europe and North America and spanning the early modern period to the ... Read more

    $72.79 CAD

  • Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Politics of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Carla Bittel ...
    Series series Studies in Social Medicine
    In the late nineteenth century, as Americans debated the “woman question,” a battle over the meaning of biology arose in the medical profession. Some medical men claimed that women were naturally weak, that education would make them physically ill, and that women physicians endangered the profession. Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842-1906), a physician from New York, worked to prove them wrong and argued ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

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  • Nurse, Come You Here!

    More True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle (The Country Nurse Series, Book Two)

    by Mary J. MacLeod ...
    Series Book 2 - The Country Nurse
    From the author of Call the Nurse, come new tales of a London nurse working to help and heal a community on a remote Scottish island. Lively, touching, engaging reading for fans of Call the Midwife and All Creatures Great and Small."Julia MacLeod shares unique and enchanting experiences as a nurse in rural Scotland. Her stories will ring true with every nurse—or anyone—who has ever cared for a ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Two Small Footprints in Wet Sand

    The Uplifting True Story of a Mother's Brave Quest to Save Her Daughter

    by Anne-Dauphine Julliand ...
    Translated by Adriana Hunter ...
    Thaïs is almost two. Like most well-loved children, she is happy. She laughs as she runs on the beach. But her footprints in the sand, with toes turned out, tell a different story. Two Small Footprints in Wet Sand relates the overwhelming tragedy experienced by a family as a result of a genetic disorder.A true tale told by a mother, it’s the story of a little girl, of family, friends, and the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • How Not to Die

    Surprising Lessons on Living Longer, Safer, and Healthier from America's Favorite Medical Examiner

    by Jan Garavaglia M.D. ...
    WHEN THIS DOCTOR TALKS, YOU SHOULD LISTEN.Thousands of people make an early exit each year and arrive on medical examiner Jan Garavaglia’s table. What is particularly sad about this is that many of these deaths could easily have been prevented. Although Dr. Garavaglia, or Dr. G, as she’s known to many, could not tell these individuals how to avoid their fates, we can benefit from her experience ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Something for the Pain: Compassion and Burnout in the ER

    Compassion and Burnout in the ER

    by Paul Austin ...
    “What makes this inspiring medical memoir stand out is the courageous measure of Austin’s humanity.”—Publishers WeeklyIn this eye-opening account of life in the ER, Paul Austin recalls how the daily grind of long, erratic shifts and endless hordes of patients with sad stories sent him down a path of bitterness and cynicism. Gritty, powerful, and ultimately redemptive, Something for the Pain is a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Walk It Off

    The True and Hilarious Story of How I Learned to Stand, Walk, Pee, Run, and Have Sex Again After a Nightmarish Diagnosis Turned My Awesome Life Upside Down

    by Ruth Marshall ...
    Furiously Happy meets Elaine Lui in this truly original—and surprisingly hilarious—memoir about one woman’s journey to learn how to walk after a debilitating diagnosis turned her life upside down.Learn How to Walk (Again) To-Do List:Step 1: StandStep 2: StepStep 3: Pee (Yes!)Step 4: Walk with walkerStep 5: Walk with stick... ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Adventures in Human Being

    A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum

    by Gavin Francis ...
    "Adventures in Human Being, with its deft mix of the clinical and the lyrical, is a triumph of the eloquent brain and the compassionate heart." -- Wall Street JournalWe assume we know our bodies intimately, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory, an enigma of bone and muscle, neurons and synapses. How many of us understand the way seizures affect the brain, how the heart is connected ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Rescue 471

    A Paramedic's Stories

    by Peter Canning ...
    TRUE LIFE-AND-DEATH DRAMAIn taut, thrilling prose, Peter Canning has written a book that captures the rarely seen real world of emergency medicine. A seasoned paramedic who fights under enormous pressure to save lives, Canning trains new paramedics for the rigors of a nonstop, action-packed battle. From a four-month-old baby who has stopped breathing to a sixty-seven-year-old woman with a strange ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • In an Instant

    A Family's Journey of Love and Healing

    by Lee Woodruff, Bob Woodruff ...
    In one of the most anticipated books of the year, Lee Woodruff, along with her husband, Bob Woodruff, share their never-before-told story of romance, resilience, and survival following the tragedy that transformed their lives and gripped a nation.In January 2006, the Woodruffs seemed to have it all–a happy marriage and four beautiful children. Lee was a public relations executive and Bob had just ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Baby's Coming

    A Story of Dedication by an Independent Midwife

    by Virginia Howes ...
    Virginia Howes was a mother of four doing the ironing when she had a revelation. Still broody, but not really wanting to add to her family, she realised that becoming a midwife was her true vocation.It was a long journey to get the education and qualifications she needed, especially with a young family, but she was determined and never doubted her decision. Following her training, she spent three ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • 12, 20 & 5

    A Doctor's Year in Vietnam

    by John A. Parrish ...
    The wry and heart-wrenching memoir of a young doctor's year behind the frontlines in Vietnam.Assigned to the marine camp at Phu Bai, Dr. John A. Parrish confronted all manner of medical trauma, quickly shedding the naïveté of a new medical intern. With this memoir, he crafts a haunting, humane portrait of one man's agonizing confrontation with war. With a wife and two children awaiting his return ... Read more

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