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LACAN (Fontana Modern Masters)

By Bowie

Breast Beating: A personal odyssey in the quest for an understanding of breast cancer, the meaning of life and other easy questions

By Professor Michael Baum, MB ChB FRCS ChM MD(Hon) FRCR(Hon); (Professor Emeritus of Surgery, University College London)

The Seven Ages of Death: 'Every chapter is like a detective story' Telegraph

By Dr Richard Shepherd

A Nurse in Time

By Evelyn Prentis

Fortunate Man

By John Berger, Jean Mohr

Flight Risk: The Highs and Lows of Life as a Doctor at Heathrow Airport

By Dr Stephanie Green

How to Starve Cancer: ...and Then Kill It with Ferroptosis

By Jane McLelland

Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s

By Jennifer Worth, SRN, SCM

Running with Scissors: A Memoir

By Augusten Burroughs

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

By Rolt, L.T.C, Buchanan, Angus

Che: A Memoir by Fidel Castro

By Fidel Castro, David Deutschmann, Jesus Montane

Wounded: The Long Journey Home From the Great War

By Emily Mayhew

Farewell To The East End: The Last Days of the East End Midwives (Call The Midwife)

By Worth, Jennifer, Jennifer Worth

Strength in What Remains

By Tracy Kidder

The Seven Ages of Death: 'Every chapter is like a detective story' Telegraph

By Dr Richard Shepherd

A Nurse at the Front: The First World War Diaries of Sister Edith Appleton

By Ruth Cowen

The Trident: The Forging And Reforging of a Navy SEAL Leader

By Jason Redman, John Bruning

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

By Henry Marsh

Snowshoe and Lancet: Memoirs of a Frontier Newfoundland Doctor, 1937-1947

By Robert Skidmore Ecke

An Imperfect Offering: Dispatches from the medical frontline

By James Orbinski (Author)

Churchill's Doctor: Biography of Lord Moran

By R.R.H. Lovell

Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time

By Dr. Michael du Preez, Jeremy Dronfield

Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Mysteries of the Brain and the Border Between Life and Death

By Adrian Owen

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

By Keefe, Patrick Radden

Florence Nightingale

By Struan Reid

The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves

By Siri Hustvedt

A Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein

By John Kerr

Florence Nightingale

By John Malam

And Finally: Matters of Life and Death, the Sunday Times bestseller from the author of DO NO HARM

By Henry Marsh

Adventures in the Orgasmatron: The Invention of Sex

By Christopher Turner