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  • The Lock and Key of Medicine

    Monoclonal Antibodies and the Transformation of Healthcare

    par Lara V. Marks ...
    This book is the first to tell the extraordinary yet unheralded history of monoclonal antibodies. Often referred to as Mabs, they are unfamiliar to most nonscientists, yet these microscopic protein molecules are everywhere, quietly shaping our lives and healthcare. Discovered in the mid-1970s in the laboratory where Watson and Crick had earlier unveiled the structure of DNA, Mabs have radically ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

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  • The Drug Hunters

    The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines

    The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity- by chewing, brewing, and snorting-some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the five ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Fluoride Deception

    With the narrative punch of Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action and the commitment to environmental truth-telling of Erin Brockovich, The Fluoride Deception documents a powerful connection between big corporations, the U.S. military, and the historic reassurances of fluoride safety provided by the nation’s public health establishment. The Fluoride Deception reads like a thriller, but one supported by ... En savoir plus

    $17.19 CAD

  • Permanent Present Tense

    The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H. M.

    par Suzanne Corkin ...
    In 1953, 27-year-old Henry Gustave Molaison underwent an experimental "psychosurgical" procedure -- a targeted lobotomy -- in an effort to alleviate his debilitating epilepsy. The outcome was unexpected -- when Henry awoke, he could no longer form new memories, and for the rest of his life would be trapped in the moment.But Henry's tragedy would prove a gift to humanity. As renowned neuroscientist ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Vaccine Race

    Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease

    par Meredith Wadman ...
    **"A real jewel of science history...brims with suspense and now-forgotten catastrophe and intrigue...Wadman’s smooth prose calmly spins a surpassingly complicated story into a real tour de force."—The New York Times“Riveting . . . [The Vaccine Race] invites comparison with Rebecca Skloot's 2007 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”—NatureThe epic and controversial story of a major breakthrough ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Great Starvation Experiment

    The Heroic Men Who Starved so That Millions Could Live

    par Todd Tucker ...
    What does it feel like to starve? To feel your body cry out for nourishment, to think only of food? How many fitful, hungry nights must pass before dreams of home-cooked meals metastasize into nightmares of cannibalism? Why would anyone volunteer to find out?In The Great Starvation Experiment, historian Todd Tucker tells the harrowing story of thirty-six young men who willingly and bravely faced ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Talking Back to Prozac

    What Doctors Aren't Telling You About Prozac and the Newer Antidepressants

    A psychiatrist takes a critical look at this SSRI and newer medications that are among the most frequently prescribed drugs in America.Prozac. Millions of Americans are on it. And just about everyone else is wondering if they should be on it, too. The claims of the pro‑Prozac chorus are enticing: that it can cure everything from depression (the only disorder for which Prozac was originally ... En savoir plus

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  • Plagues in World History

    par John Aberth ...
    Collections series Exploring World History
    Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, and AIDS. Geographically, these diseases have spread across the entire globe; temporally, they stretch from the sixth century to the present. John Aberth considers not only the varied impact that disease has had upon human history ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD

  • Blue Dreams

    The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds

    par Lauren Slater ...
    The explosive story of the discovery and development of psychiatric medications, as well as the science and the people behind their invention, told by a riveting writer and psychologist who shares her own experience with the highs and lows of psychiatric drugs.Although one in five Americans now takes at least one psychotropic drug, the fact remains that nearly seventy years after doctors first ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Special Hell

    Institutional Life in Alberta's Eugenic Years

    Using rare interviews with former inmates and workers, institutional documentation, and governmental archives, Claudia Malacrida illuminates the dark history of the treatment of “mentally defective” children and adults in twentieth-century Alberta. Focusing on the Michener Centre in Red Deer, one of the last such facilities operating in Canada, A Special Hell is a sobering account of the ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • Generic

    The Unbranding of Modern Medicine

    The turbulent history of generic pharmaceuticals raises powerful questions about similarity and difference in modern medicine.Generic drugs are now familiar objects in clinics, drugstores, and households around the world. We like to think of these tablets, capsules, patches, and ointments as interchangeable with their brand-name counterparts: why pay more for the same? And yet they are not quite ... En savoir plus

    $30.79 CAD