Health
The Heart of the Matter
Peter Pugh
The official history of one of the UK's most outstanding medical institutions.
Being Mortal
Atul Gawande
Format: Paperback
From the international bestselling author of Better, Complications and The Checklist Manifesto and Reith Lecturer 2014, a revolutionary and emotionally searing account of death, dying and medicine.
The Checklist Manifesto
Atul Gawande
Format: Paperback
One of the top ten greatest doctors in the world looks at the lowly checklist, and how this simple idea - which is free to reproduce - will revolutionise the way we approach problems, and help save lives.
Sex, Lies & Pharmaceuticals
Ray Moynihan
A hard-hitting and provocative expose that takes us inside the corridors of medical power to watch the birth of the new 'disease' - Female Sexual Dysfunction - and the marketing machine that will create it.
Better
Atul Gawande
Format: Paperback
The struggle to perform well is universal, but nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine.
Complications
Atul Gawande
Format: Paperback
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.
