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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Dr Marco Rossi, Consultant Neuropathologist at the Corsellis Collection, Runwell Hospital, Essex, examines different examples of human brains presenting evidence of trauma or disease. Through external examination or partial dissection the viewer is able to see the damage to the brain after a road traffic accident and in another example, observe the effects Alzheimer's Disease has on its structure. As the various symptoms present themselves, Dr Rossi...
Publisher
[BBC America]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After reuniting with his long-lost daughter in Singapore, Dr. Lucien Blake returns to Ballarat, Australia, where a new Senior Constable and an old foe do their best to thwart his work as police surgeon. And yet they need Blake's help to solve the murder of the mayor of Ballarat, the stabbing of a rock 'n' roll star and the poisoning of a well-dressed picnicker.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Things have changed for Doctor Lucien Blake. His co-conspirator Lawson has been fired from Ballarat, his emotional embrace with Jean has changed life in the house and a new arrival leaves his tenure under threat. But that's the least of his troubles when he uncovers a dark story behind his mother's death. In this eight-part series return, the wonderfully maverick Doctor Blake is pushed to his limits to find the truth behind a range of intriguing murders...
5) Swallow
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A newly pregnant housewife, she seems content to spend her time tending to an immaculate home and doting on her Ken-doll husband, Richie. However, as the pressure to meet her controlling in-laws and husband's rigid expectations mounts, cracks begin to appear in her carefully created facade. Hunter develops a dangerous habit, and a dark secret from her past seeps out in the form of a disorder called pica, a condition that has her compulsively swallowing...
Author
Language
English
Description
Here the author, a physician and reporter, provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. She reconstructs 5 days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amid chaos. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Taking readers inside the nation's preeminent Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the author, who spent ten years with the Maryland OCME, explores the year-by-year story of a pioneer in the field of forensic medicine that is now chronically in crisis.
"Equipped with a journalist's eye, a paramedic's experience and a sardonic wit, Bruce Goldfarb spent ten years with Maryland's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, where every sudden or unattended...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Act of violence (1948): Ex-World War II pilot Frank Enley is a respected contractor and family man. Then his troubled, gimp-legged bombardier shows up with a gun and a score to settle. Perhaps neither man is what he seems to be.
Mystery street (1950): Vivian is being brushed off by her rich, married boyfriend. To confront him, she hijacks Henry Shanway and his car from Boston to Cape Cod. Once there, she strands Henry. Months later, a skeleton is...
Author
Series
Publisher
KidHaven Pub
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"What leads to one fainting or having a seizure can be quite serious. Witnessing or experiencing either of these health issues can also be very scary. In this book, young readers are introduced to why someone might faint or have a seizure and what to do should that occur. Age-appropriate, clear explanations ready kids for anything, in addition to emphasizing getting an adult's help or calling 911. Full-color photographs depict realistic situations...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The gripping true story of a Supreme Court civil rights battle to prevent biotech companies from owning the very thing that makes us who we are--our DNA"--
When attorney Chris Hansen learned that the U.S. government was issuing patents for human genes to biotech companies, he discovered that women were being charged exorbitant fees to test for hereditary breast and ovarian cancers, tests they desperately needed-- because Myriad Genetics had patented...
12) Cometierra
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando era chica, Cometierra tragó tierra y supo en una visión que su papá había matado a golpes a su mamá. Esa fue solo la primera de las visiones. Nacer con un don implica una responsabilidad hacia los otros y a Cometierra le tocó uno que hace su vida doblemente difícil, porque vive en un barrio en donde la violencia, el desamparo y la injusticia brotan en cada rincón y porque allí las principales víctimas son las mujeres. En la persecución...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people-morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners-who work in it and what led them there. We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we're so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look? Fueled by...
Series
Publisher
Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Actual business plans compiled by, and aimed at, entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses. Presents sample plans taken from businesses in the manufacturing, retail and service industries which serve as examples of how to approach, structure and compose business plans.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The Invention of Surgery explains this dramatic progress and highlights the personalities of the discipline's most dynamic historical figures. It links together the lives of the pioneering scientists who first understood what causes disease, how organs become infected or cancerous, and how surgery could powerfully intercede in people's lives, and then shows how the rise of surgery intersected with many of the greatest medical breakthroughs of the...
Author
Publisher
Holt Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The seventh edition of The Breast Cancer Survival Manual provides essential updates on treatment and care, enhancing the basic information that has made this the most trusted guide for women diagnosed with breast cancer for the past two decades. This edition includes the most current advice on: · The genomic basis of breast cancer and recent changes in the genomic breast cancer types · The need for individual tailoring of a treatment plan, resulting...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Go, an imprint of Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"While the amount of information regarding a breast cancer diagnosis is vaster than ever, online and off, what continues to be missing is the explanation behind the options. Most of the data online on medical sites is generic and often comes from the same source. Then there are the patient sites as well as many social media outlets that provide peer to peer support and information. This is important for emotional support but still leaves out the full...
Series
Studies in funerary archaeology volume 2
Publisher
Oxbow Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
This volume contains 12 papers that present evidence on non-normative burial practices from the Neolithic through to Post-Medieval periods and includes case studies from some ten countries.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the 'collected schizophrenias' but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, Wang discusses the medical community's own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations...
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