Health & Medicine

David Kirk / Understanding Prostate Disorders

The prostate gland lies just beneath the bladder. Many men, as they get older, experience prostate symptoms such as a poor urine stream or having to urinate frequently. This book explains diseases of the prostate, how they cause problems and what can be...

Jules Montague / The Imaginary Patient

An incisive analysis and fascinating history of modern medicine's flawed relationship with diagnosis, and a clarion call to our medical establishment to do better     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Karen Kenyon / The Physiotherapist's Pocketbook

'The Physiotherapist's Pocketbook' is a handy reference that is ideal for clinicians in their daily practice and students on core clinical placements - musculoskeletal, neurology, respiratory. This edition has been updated and expanded to...

Rachel Kelly / Black Rainbow

Black Rainbow is the powerful first-person story of one woman's struggle with depression and how she managed to recover from it through the power of poetry. In 1997, Oxford graduate, working mother and Times journalist Rachel Kelly went from feeling...

Bryony Gordon / Mad Woman (Hardback)

'Bryony Gordon is a terrific, compassionate writer' Elizabeth Day What if our notion of what makes us happy is the very thing that's making us so sad? Ten years on from first writing about her own experiences of mental illness, Bryony...

Linda T. Kohn / To Err is Human - Building a Safer Health System (Hardback)

"To Err is Human breaks the silence that has surrounded medical errors and their consequences - but not by pointing fingers at caring health care professionals who make honest mistakes. Instead, this book sets forth a national agenda - with state...

Karen Sullivan / Vitamins and Minerals: A Step (Hardback)

One in a series of guides to complementary treatments, this book focuses on vitamins and minerals. It includes vitamins and minerals in natural foods, a "materia medica" of vitamins and minerals, and a self-help for common ailments  ...