A uniquely personal and insightful delve into one man's family history, as seen through the prism of two-hundred years of medicine in the British Isles.
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A fascinating narrative history of our major psychotropic drugs and the way in which they have shaped us from the author of Opening Skinner's Box.
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A fascinating narrative history of our major psychotropic drugs and the way in which they have shaped us from the author of Opening Skinner's Box.
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Published October, 2017
By Dean Sherzai and Ayesha Sherzai
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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By Dean Sherzai and Ayesha Sherzai
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Rating:
in-stock
Alzheimer's Research UK estimates that 850,000 people in the UK are suffering from dementia and that number is set to rise. Two of the world's leading neurologists present an effective programme for preventing and reversing the effects of cognitive decline no matter what your age.
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His family survived famine-ravaged Ireland in the 1850s. His ancestors setteld in poverty-rife Victorian Liverpool, working to survive and thrive. Some of them became soldiers serving in Galipoli and on the Western Front. One would be the last man to step off the SS Titanic as it sank beneath the icy waves. He would testify at the inquest. This is their story. Stephen McGann is Doctor Turner in the BBC hit-drama series Call the Midwife. Flesh and Bloodis the story of the McGann family as told through seven maladies - diseases, wounds or ailments that have afflicted Steve's relatives over the last century and a half, and which have helped mould him into what he now perceives himself to be. It's the story of how health, or the lack of it, fuels our collective will and informs our personal narrative. Health is the motivational antagonist in the drama of our life story - circumscribing the extent of our actions, the quality of our character and the breadth of our ambition. Our maladies are the scribes that write the restless and mutating genome of our self-identity. Flesh and Blood combines McGann's passion for genealogy with an academic interest in the social dimensions of medicine - and fuses these with a lifelong exploration of drama as a way to understand what motivates human beings to do the things they do. He looks back at scenes from his own life that were moulded by medical malady, and traces the crooked roots of each affliction through the lives of his ancestors, whose grim maladies punctuate the public documents or military records of his family tree. In this way he asks a simple, searching question: how have these maladies helped to shape the story of the person he is today?
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A uniquely personal and insightful delve into one man's family history, as seen through the prism of two-hundred years of medicine in the British Isles.
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Anarchic, hilarious and insightful, Graeme Fowler's look at life and cricket is a compelling and unmissable read
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Dr. Mukherjee, a celebrated cancer research doctor and author of The Gene and The Emperor of All Maladies, takes the reader on a soulful journey to discover the essence of his profession.
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Compelling memoir of a young man who emerged from the darkness of being locked into his body after doctors had given up on him
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A moving story of a woman with early onset Alzheimer's disease, now a major film starring Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart.
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