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A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who is suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's is invite to a prestigious conference in Geneva to meet a enigmatic neuroscientist who has developed technology that could change medicine forever and also save her life.
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Theresa MacLean novels volume 2
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Jillian Perry has been found dead in the woods, leaving behind a husband of three weeks and a young daughter. The police can't determine how she died--but forensic investigator Theresa MacLean suspects foul play. To complicate matters, a former boyfriend of Jillian's unexpectedly petitions for custody of the daughter. Obsessed with Jillian, he also suspects that Jillian was murdered, and now he and Theresa believe Jillian's daughter may be in danger...
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Arranged in chronological order from the early Greek mathematicians, Euclid and Archimedes through to present-day Nobel Prize winners, 100 Science Discoveries That Changed the World charts the great breakthroughs in scientific understanding. Each entry describes the story of the research, the significance of the science and its impact on the scientific world. There is also a resume of each scientist's career along with their other achievements, sometimes...
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Over the course of twenty-five years, Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than eighty serial killers around the world. What she learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious criminals known to man.Judging by appearances, Dr. Helen Morrison has an ordinary life in the suburbs of a major city. She has a physician husband, two children, and a thriving psychiatric clinic. But her life is much more than that....
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The Marcé Society had long pointed to the dearth of information on Marcé's life and the need to situate Marcé's magisterial Treatise on the Madness of Pregnant Women in the context of Marcé's entire scholarly production. The thorough investigation conducted by the late Thérèse Lempérière (1925-2013) and Jean-Pierre Luauté brings to light for the first time the facts surrounding Marcé's tragic death and sheds additional light on Marcé's...
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Hanne Schafer, 63, had just retired as a psychologist from her position in a mental health clinic. Youthful and energetic, she looked forward to engaging in more travel, socializing, hiking and ballroom dancing with her partner, Daniel Laurin. When Hanne received a devastating diagnosis, she asked Daniel and Mary, her long-time friends, for help in dealing with a grim reality. She asked them for the 'unthinkable'.
How would you respond? What would...
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Quand la générosité et l'altruisme permettent de soigner de nombreux enfants souffrant de malformations cardiaques
Les familles d'accueil sont un élément essentiel de l'action de Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque. Elles acceptent bénévolement une responsabilité très importante: accueillir dans leur foyer un enfant étranger pour une durée de 8 semaines, et l'accompagner tout au long de son parcours vers la guérison. Ces témoignages sont autant...
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Une agression a changé à tout jamais la vie d'une famille et de ses amis proches. La femme de la victime retrace les événements et les séquelles qui en ont découlé.
La vie de Sabrina bascule le 9 avril 2016. L'homme qui partage sa vie depuis 16 ans, a disparu en pleine nuit. De longues heures de recherches, des battues... Jusqu'à ce qu'un corps inerte et tuméfié soit découvert dans un buisson... Violence urbaine, banale, gratuite... Entourée...
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Une ode à la vie qui nous fera comprendre qu'il faut chérir cette dernière !
Lily S. est une jeune femme de 33 ans vivant en France. Issue d'une formation en archéologie et dans les domaines culturels, elle a toujours été passionnée par de multiples domaines que ce soit l'art, la culture, le patrimoine, l'éthologie, les animaux, la science, et notamment la médecine. La lecture de divers ouvrages a été pour elle la découverte d'histoires...
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Este libro está escrito principalmente para médicos y sanitarios en general, así como para todas aquellas personas que hayan sufrido o estén padeciendo una larga enfermedad, naturalmente, se incluyen los familiares que los acompañan en el dolor. Asimismo, a cuantos puedan estar interesados por este fascinante mundo que es la sanidad, pues, de una manera u otra, todos somos usuarios.
En este ensayo, lo primero que se ofrece es un "desnudo integral...
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Des anecdotes toutes plus étonnantes les unes que les autres.
Il ne faut pas se leurrer, le quotidien d'une aide-soignante, c'est avant tout de laver des postérieurs... des gros, des petits, des flasques et surtout des douteux! Mais que peut-il donc y avoir d'intéressant à raconter sur ce métier? Je vous propose d'embarquer avec moi, vous verrez qu'il foisonne d'anecdotes toutes plus étonnantes les unes que les autres. Les relations humaines...
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Contre-vérités, idées reçues, stéréotypes… L'euthanasie et, plus largement, l'accompagnement de la fin de vie, en sont accablés au quotidien.
Que cache cette violence à l'égard de voies ouvertes avant tout pour soulager la souffrance ? La peur, sans doute, face à cet épisode de vie si particulier. Une part d'incompréhension, certainement.
C'est le besoin de partager une expérience de plus de trente ans en la matière qui a donné...
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Attilio Stajano est volontaire dans l'unité de soins palliatifs d'un hpital bruxellois. À travers les personnes qu'il rencontre au sein de ce service, mais aussi à travers sa propre expérience de la fin de vie, il nous donne à voir des histoires et des sensibilités très différentes, qui ont pourtant toutes un trait commun: à la fin, quand les gestes et les mots se font rares, il ne reste que l'amour. «On sort de la lecture de ce livre convaincus...
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An intertwined tale of a boy's world shattered by suicide and a man's personal story being rewritten by neuroscience.
When Richard Brockman found his mother's body, the simple narrative of his childhood ended. As a young man, when he looked back upon his life, it was through the lens of pain and confusion of his mother's death. As a boy, he'd sought only to survive the aftermath of her actions without coming to terms with his shock and grief. But...
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Milton Wexler was among the most unconventional, compelling, and sometimes controversial figures of the golden age of psychoanalysis in America. From Teachers College at Columbia University to the Menninger Foundation in Topeka to the galleries and gilded hills of Hollywood, he traversed the country and the century, pursuing interests ranging from the treatment of schizophrenia to group therapy with artists to advocacy for research on Huntington's...
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"Our brains are more extraordinary--and far stranger--than we think. We take it for granted that we can remember, feel emotion, navigate, empathize, and understand the world around us, but how would our lives change if these abilities were dramatically enhanced--or disappeared overnight? Helen Thomson has spent years traveling the world, tracking down incredibly rare brain disorders. In Unthinkable she tells the stories of nine extraordinary people...
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"Erik Olin Wright, one of the most important sociologists of his time, takes us along on his intimate and brave journey toward death, and asks the big questions about human mortality. Human life is a wild, extraordinary phenomenon: elements are brewed in the center of stars and exploding supernova, spewed across the universe; they eventually clumped into a minor planet around a modest star; then after some billions of years this "stardust" became...
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This is the story of the author's life as a doctor and a scientist. Despite a youthful ambition to become a jazz musician, he studied medicine and eventually became a medical research scientist, taking up appointments in Germany, Austria and finally in England. His reverence for the pursuit of truth through the application of scientific methods, coupled with a growing interest in the history of medicine during the Nazi era, did not always endear him...
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In this fascinating biography, Annette Wood delves deep into Grandin's life from childhood to adulthood. Wood tells of the trials and tribulations of the icon: What difficulties Grandin struggled with and how she's become a hero for the autistic community. She also tells what Temple has done since the movie came out, where she is today, what kind of difference she's made, and what her future holds. For the 22 million people worldwide afflicted by...
20) Fantastic voyage
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[2007]
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An elite team of medical and scientific specialists race to save a top government scientist who is suffering from blood clot on the brain. Their mission is to be reduced along with their submarine-like craft to microscope size, enter the bloodstream of the ailing scientist, and journey to the brain to perform an emergency procedure. With only sixty minutes to complete their mission, the scientists find themselves fighting off an attack by white corpuscles,...
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