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Being Mortal - Illness Medicine & What by Atul Gawande
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Wellcome | Reading Level: very good
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safet ...Show more
Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
$39.99 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction | Series: Wellcome
New York Times Number One bestseller Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2014 In Being Mortal, Gawande examines his experiences as a surgeon, as he confronts the realities of aging and dying in his patients and in his family, as well as the limits of what he can do. And he emerges with story that cr ...Show more
Forensics by McDermid Val
$49.99 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction | Series: Wellcome Ser.
Bestselling author of Broken Ground "offers fascinating glimpses" into the real world of criminal forensics from its beginnings to the modern day (The Boston Globe). The dead can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them. Using th ...Show more
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop by Adam Kucharski
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Wellcome Collection
The bestselling - and hugely timely - guide to the science of contagion, revised and updated to address Covid-19. 'Astonishingly bold' - Daily Mail 'It is hard to imagine a more timely book...much of the modern world will make more sense having read it.' - The Times We live in a world that's more interc ...Show more
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread and Why They Stop by Adam Kucharski; Francesca Barrie (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Wellcome Collection
The new science of contagion, and the surprising ways it shapes our lives and behaviour.
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