Published January, 2020
By Aoife Abbey
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An insightful, tender and inspiring memoir that explores the reality of life on the NHS front line. 'Brilliant, compelling... A hugely life-affirming book' Mail on Sunday Grief.

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Published April, 2019
By Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan and Suzanne O'Sullivan
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The brain is the most complex structure in the universe, and neurologists must puzzle out life-changing diagnoses from the tiniest of clues - it's the ultimate in medical detective work.

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Published February, 2019
By Daniel M. Davis
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Published January, 2019
By Christie Watson
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Published June, 2018
By Laura Spinney
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Read the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century's greatest killer - and discover what it can teach us about the current Covid-19 pandemic. 'Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story...

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Published May, 2018
By Thomas Morris
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In eleven landmark operations, Thomas Morris tells us stories of triumph, reckless bravery, swaggering arrogance, jealousy and rivalry, and incredible ingenuity, from the trail-blazing 'blue baby' procedure to the first human heart transplant.

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Published February, 2018
By Paul Bloom
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Research in psychology and neuroscience shows that we feel empathy most for those we find attractive and who seem similar to us and not at all for those who are different, distant or anonymous. This book demonstrates that, when faced with moral decisions, we must choose reason and compassion, not empathy, as our guides.

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Published January, 2018
By Ruth Fitzmaurice
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The author's tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker husband, Simon, who has Motor Neurone Disease and can only communicate with his eyes. An invocation to all of us to love as hard as we can, and live even harder, this is the author's urgent and uplifting letter to a husband, family, friends, the natural world and the brightness of life.

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Published August, 2017
By Colin Grant
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He shows us the famous people with epilepsy like Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc and Vincent van Gogh, the pioneering doctors whose extraordinary breakthroughs finally helped gain an understanding of how the brain works, and, through the tragic tale of his brother, he considers the effect of epilepsy on his own life.

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Published August, 2017
By Luke Dittrich
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In the summer of 1953, maverick neurosurgeon William Beecher Scoville performed a operation on a twenty-seven-year-old epileptic patient named Henry Molaison. The operation failed to eliminate Molaison's intractable seizures, but it did have an unintended effect: Henry was left profoundly amnesic, unable to create long term memories.

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