Surgery under local anaesthetic by the travelling surgeon Dr Naga.
by Gregory Kleiman
Cor Blimey! Where 'ave You Come From?
by Winifred Tovey and Frank Tovey
Winifred Tovey's autobiography is packed with stories and historic photos of India after Independence. In 1951 she travelled to India with her medical missionary husband, Frank, and two small daughters, to start life as medical missionary's wife in the southern city of Mysore. When they first arrived, the 'old India missionaries' instructed them to, 'listen, learn and on no account express an opinion'. But they found too much need around them, and in no time at all they were extending Frank's wo...
No one would have blamed Donald Seldin for running away. When he arrived at Southwestern Medical College in 1951, it was a collection of hastily repurposed military shacks creaking in the wind. On practically day one he became chair of the department of medicine-when the only other full-time professors departed. By the time he stepped down thirty-six years later, Seldin had transformed a sleepy medical college into the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center-a powerhouse of research and...
Karl Popper has been hailed as the greatest philosopher of all time and as a thinker whose influence is ackowledged by a variety of scholars. This work demonstrates Popper's importance across the whole range of philosophy and provides an introduction to the main themes of philosophy itself.
"[Dr. Reicher] lived through the Second World War in Poland, dodging bullets, uprisings and deportations--not to mention betrayal, starvation and airless hideouts--in a manner more reminiscent of a talented outlaw than a mild-mannered dermatologist ...It is the impressive simplicity of the good doctor's writing that makes [t]his book resemble [Victor] Klemperer's, and the detailed observations of its report that makes it emotionally memorable...William Carlos Williams once said that people who p...
"Genuine and heartfelt."—San Diego Union-TribuneRonald Reagan’s daughter writes with a moving openness about losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease. The simplicity with which she reveals the intensity, the rush, the flow of her feelings encompasses all the surprises and complexities that ambush us when death gradually, unstoppably invades life.In this moving and illuminating portrait of a woman and her father, Patti Davis describes saying goodbye in stages, helpless against the onslaught of a...
“Give yourself a gift and read Flying Without Wings. You will be kinder, wiser, and more compassionate for having read it. I am.”—Abigail (Dear Abby) Van Buren At twenty-four, Arnold Beisser was a recent medical school graduate and a nationally ranked tennis player. But overnight a devastating bout of polio left him permanently paralyzed from the neck down and dependent on an iron lung to draw his next breath. Polio robbed Arnold Beisser of his strength, his athletic ability, and almost his lif...
When the beautiful home that Janita Sakoschek had built for her family burned down it caused a catastrophic breakdown. She lost everything she owned: her clothes and furniture, her diaries and photographs, her antiques and paintings and, ultimately, her sanity. We find her rooted to a borrowed sofa, chain-smoking, and blackly depressed. Friends and family try to intervene but she only resents the intrusions and the humiliations.When she finally agrees to see a psychologist, she gets incarcerated...
