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"Dermatologia: Atlas, diagnostico y tratamiento"

By: "Arenas, Dr. Roberto"

Price: $98.95

Publisher: Mexico, McGraw-Hill Interamericana Healthcare: 1987

Seller ID: 7-5Y012

ISBN: 9684221525

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD+

As new except for owner's name inside front cover and neatly indexed with post-it tabs matched to highlighted areas. A scratch on the front cover. Text in Spanish. 642 indexed pages illustrated with photo close-ups.
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Developmental Anatomy: A Text-Book and Laboratory Manual of Embryology

By: "Arey, Leslie Brainerd"

Price: $45.95

Publisher: "Philadelphia, PA", W.B. Saunders Company: 1924

Seller ID: 58X012

Binding: Oversize Hardbound

Condition: GOOD+

"Vintage textbook (1920s). Tight with text as new. 433 indexed pages with 419 illustrations, many with color emphasis. Exterior shows its age: Blue cloth with gilt lettering; Spine softened and worn at ends, stained on top; Corners worn through to board and curled. Exterior page edges show age soil. Owner's name inside front cover. "
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The End of Healing: A Journey through the Underworld of American Medicine

By: "Bailey, Jim"

Price: $9.95

Publisher: The Healthy City:

Seller ID: 9780985420390

ISBN: 0985420391

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

A looming menace lurks within the towers of American medicine. One young doctor is determined to uncover the truth. Follow him on a journey you will never forget.

Don Newman, a resident physician at the renowned University Hospital, awakens to the screams of his pager in a windowless call room in the middle of the night. He runs to a dark ward to attend to a dying woman strapped to a bed and realizes--despite working long and hard to become a doctor and having sworn to do no harm--harm has become his business.

So begins Dr. Newman's quest to find true healing in a world...
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Contemporary Issues in Perimenopause and Menopause

By: "Batzer, Frances R. MD"

Price: $19.95

Seller ID: 97P036

ISBN: 1884065163

Binding: Paperback

Condition: FINE

"As new. ""to acquaint primary care physicians and gynecologists with the necessary information to evaluate specific health concerns unique to women and the most appropriate treatment options."""
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Mummy Dearest: How Two Guys in a Potato Chip Truck Changed the Way the Living See the Dead

By: "Beckett, Ron, Conlogue, Jerry"

Price: $12.45

Publisher: The Lyons Press:

Seller ID: 9781592285440

ISBN: 1592285449

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

A feast for the eyes as well as the mind. Ron Beckett and Jerry Conlogue, the unlikely hosts of the Discovery Channel & Channel 4's popular The Mummy Road Show, recount their adventures both in front of the camera and behind the scenes as they travel the world in a converted Charles Chips delivery van. Beckett And Conlogue pioneered the combined use of radiography and endoscopy to unlock the mysteries of the world's most baffling mummies - and in the process breathed new life into an old science. Their work has led to startling discoveries and unique insights on how people throughout human his...
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The Radiology of Bones and Joints

By: "Brailord, James F. MD, MRCS"

Price: $17.06

Publisher: "Baltimore, MD", William Wood & Company: 1935

Seller ID: 58X010

Binding: Oversize Hardbound

Condition: VERY GOOD

" Blue cloth with gilt lettering, embossed design on front. Spine is slightly rubbed, softened at ends and has 2 @1/8"" rip on bottom. Faint age soil to outside page edges. Interior as new."
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The Digestive Tract in Roentgenology

By: "Buckstein, Jacob MD"

Price: $44.96

Publisher: "Philadelphia, PA", J.B.Lippincott Company: 1948

Seller ID: 58X009

Binding: Oversize Hardbound

Condition: VERY GOOD

"Signed by Author. Oversize, 889 pages with 1030 Illustrations in 659 Figures. Red cloth with black title box and gilt lettering. Spine is slightly sun faded, softened at ends and has @1/4"" rip on bottom. Faint age soil to outside page edges. Interior as new. Author's credentials include Assistant Professor at Cornell University Medical College and service at Bellevue, Beth-David and Central Islip Hospitals in NY, the US Public Health Service and the US Veteran's Bureau. Additional shipping charges due to weight."
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Clinical Roentgenology of the Alimentary tract

By: "Buckstein, Jacob MD"

Price: $53.96

Publisher: "Philadelphia, PA", W.B. Saunders Company: 1940

Seller ID: 58X011

Binding: Oversize Hardbound

Condition: VERY GOOD

" Black cloth with black title block, gilt lettering. Spine softened at ends. Corners rubbed . Faint age soil to outside page edges. Owner's bookplate. Interior as new. 525 Original illustrations. Additional shipping charges due to weight."
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The Confusion About Chiropractors

By: "DeRoeck, Dr. Richard E."

Price: $29.95

Publisher: "Danbury, CT", Impulse: 1989

Seller ID: 68T001

ISBN: 0923748253

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

"As new except for the obituary and article about Dr. DeRoeck's death from the local news paper that has been stapled to the back of the title page. The newsprint has slightly yellowed the facing page. ""Chiropractors: What They are, What They do, and What they can do for you."""
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The New Rays of Professor Rontgen

By: "Dibner, Bern"

Price: $29.95

Publisher: "Norwalk, CT", Burndy Library #20: 1963

Seller ID: 04Y012

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

"Stiff cardboard cover. As new and unread but has spine shows slight age soil and rubbing to edges. The story of Professor Rontgen's discovery of X-rays for which he was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1902. 56 pages, with illustrations and bibliography "
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The Cure for the American Healthcare Malady: Socialized Medicine - The Apple in the Garden of Eden

By: "DiGerome, James N."

Price: $21.95

Publisher: NY, Strategic Book Publishing: 2009

Seller ID: 2NT008

ISBN: 1608602257

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: FINE / Fine dj

"As new except for inscriptioon signed by author. ""an intelligent logical and meticulously researched examinatin of healthcare by an author and physician who knows firssthand the problems we, as a nation, face with large numbers of families unable to afford proper medical care."""
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Man Adapting (Mrs. H. E. Silliman Memorial Lecture)

By: "Dubos, Rene"

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Yale University Press:

Seller ID: 9780300000764

ISBN: 0300000766

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

El Medico de Cabecera: Como No Matar a Sus Hijos (Original title: How Not to Kill Your children)

By: "Elena Arnedo Sorianno, trans.)"

Price: $18.95

Publisher: "Madrid, Spain", Bolsillo /Alianza Editorial: 1971

Seller ID: 22P017

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: FAIR

"Reading copy. Tight, clean interior, light age soil to exterior. Covers are worn and creased. 6 pages with folded edges. Text in Spanish."
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Modeling and Role-Modeling: A Theory and Paradigm for Nursing

By: "Erickson, Tomlin & Swain"

Price: $52.95

Publisher: "Englewood Cliffs, NJ", Prentice-Hall: 1983

Seller ID: 16H002

ISBN: 0135861802

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD-

"Tight, bright, clean, slight curl. A corner bump has dog-eared 5 pages and left a crease on the top corner of each cover. ""Two requisites for wise and effective nursing are the basics of this book: Scientific Habits of Thought using existing knowledge about healthy functioning; Clinical Sensitivity and expertise enabling humane and knowledgeable intervention..."" 283 indexed pages including Bibliography and Glossary."
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"Spirit Catches you and You Fall Down: a Hmong Child, her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures"

By: "Fadiman, Anne"

Price: $7.00

Seller ID: 9780374525644

ISBN: 0374525641

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely people, have been less amenable to assimilation than most immigrants, adhering steadfastly to the rituals and beliefs of their ancestors. Lia's ...
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

By: "Fitzharris, Lindsey"

Price: $8.00

Publisher: FSG Adult:

Seller ID: 9780374537968

ISBN: 0374537968

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing
Short-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize
A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers Weekly
A Best History Book of 2017, The Guardian

"Warning: She spares no detail " --Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead Wake

In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed by advances made in germ theory and antiseptics between 1860 and 1875. S...
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Prayers & Rituals at a time of Illness & Dying: The Practices of Five World Religions

By: "Fosarelli, Pat"

Price: $9.95

Publisher: "West Conshohocken, PA", Templeton Foundation Press: 2008

Seller ID: 6-4P001

ISBN: 1599471469

Binding: Paperback

Condition: FINE

"As new - gift quality! ""clear instructions for both health care professionals on how to address the spiritual needs of ailing Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Christians and Jews…basic beliefs as they relate to illness and end-of-life issues…also includes specific suggestions about what not to do or say in respect to different faith traditions..."" 92 annotated pages including Bibliography."
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Arzt bei den Vergessenen in Afghanistan: Mit dem Kauf dieses Buches unterstutzen Sie die Arbeit von Dr. Freigang in Afghanistan

By: "Freigand, Dr. med. Karl Viktor"

Price: $9.95

Publisher: "Munich, Germany", promultis: 1986

Seller ID: 02T052

ISBN: 3921842707

Binding: Paperback

Condition: FINE

"As new paperback, except for faint shelfwear to covers. Text in German. 137+ pages with map and photos, 7.1x5x.6"" (112.5x18x1.5cm). ""Ein deutscher Arzt hilft der Bevolkerung im besetzten Afghanistan."" (""A German doctor helps the population in occupied Afghanistan""). Text in German. 137+ pages with map and photos, (112.5x18x1.5cm)."
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

By: "Gawande, Atul"

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Picador:

Seller ID: 9780312421700

ISBN: 0312421702

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is--uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.

Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

Tumors of Bone (Including the Jaws and Joints)

By: "Geschickter & Copeland, MDs"

Price: $44.96

Publisher: NY, American Journal of Cancer: 1936

Seller ID: 58X015

Binding: Oversize Hardbound

Condition: NEAR FINE

"Blue cloth w/gilt lettering. Slight softening to bottom of spine. Rubbing to edges. Light age soil to page edges. Owners stamp inside front covers. Interior excellent. ""Developments in roentgenology, the use of radium as a therapeutic agent and more thorough histologic studies have reawakened interest in the subject of bone tumors."" Additional shipping charges due to weight."
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