Search Results: Returned 12 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 12
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2020., Riverhead Books Call No: BLK Bio H295b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A series of connected personal stories drawn from the author's life and work as an ER doctor that explores how we are all broken--physically, emotionally, and psychically--and what we can do to heal ourselves as we try to heal others.
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-- Case of the murderous Doctor Cream.2021., Adult, Harper Avenue Call No: 364.152 J62c Edition: First Canadian edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An award-winning author and journalist transports readers to the late nineteenth century, tracing the Dr. Cream's life - a man who murdered for the sake of murder, against a backdrop of flawed detection methods, bungled investigations, corrupt officials and stifling morality of Victorian society.
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2021., W.W. Norton & Company Call No: Bio B632d Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment. In 1849, she became the first woman in America to receive an M.D. She was soon joined in her iconic achievement by her younger sister, Emily, who was actually the more brilliant physician. Exploring the sisters’ allies, enemies, and enduring partnership, Janice P. Nimura presents a story of trial and triumph. Together, the Blackwells founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, the first hospital staffed entirely by women. Both sisters were tenacious and visionary, but their convictions did not always align with the emergence of women’s rights—or with each other. From Bristol, Paris, and Edinburgh to the rising cities of antebellum America, this richly researched new biography celebrates two complicated pioneers who exploded the limits of possibility for women in medicine. As Elizabeth herself predicted, "a hundred years hence, women will not be what they are now."
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-- Americans in Paris.2011., Simon & Schuster Call No: 920 M133g Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: McCullough mixes famous and obscure names and delivers capsule biographies of everyone to produce a colorful parade of educated, Victorian-era American travelers and their life-changing experiences in Paris.
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Ã2015., Crown Publishers Call No: Bio B163b Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The author pieces together the story of her absent father's life, beginning with his advancements in isolating the biochemical root of manic depression, which he then began to suffer from himself, leading to years of institutionalization and confinement.
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2004., St. Martin's Press Call No: 610.92 T772t Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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[2016], Adult, Random House Call No: Bio K14w Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? In May of 2013, when he was on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. This memoir chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naive medical student into a neurosurgeon at Stanford studying the brain, and then suddenly into a patient confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015 while working on this book. He was 37 years old. His words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. "I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything," he wrote. "Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: 'I can't go on. I'll go on.'" A, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a man who became both. Paul Kalanithi, M.D. grew up in Kingman, Arizona. His essays and interviews can be viewed on his website, paulkalanithi.com"--Provided by publisher.
