The Aromatherapy Companion: A Portable Guide to Blending Essential Oils and Crafting Remedies for Body, Mind, and Spirit by Jade Shutes, Amy Galper
$33.00 NZD
Category: Medicine
The Aromatherapy Companion is a brief and essential guide to using aromatherapy and essential oils for healing written by Jade Shutes and Amy Galper of The School for Aromatic Studies.
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté
$40.00 NZD
Category: Medicine
We tend to believe that normality equals health. Yet what is the norm in the Western world? Mental illness is on an unstoppable rise. Some 45% of Europeans suffer high blood pressure, and nearly 70% of Americans take at least one prescription drug. Illness and trauma are defining how we live. In his new ...Show more
Demonising a Good Doctor: A Medical Scandal that Wasn't by Helen Overton
$35.00 NZD
Category: Medicine
Demonising a Good Doctor details every aspect of an inquiry that should go down as one of the worst travesties in New Zealand’s legal and medical history. Screening is more complex than many people realise. Public controversy over screening issues broke out in the 1980s in New Zealand leading to a jud ...Show more
Great Discoveries in Medicine: From Ayurveda to X-rays, Cancer to Covid by Helen Bynum
$30.00 NZD
Category: Medicine
An unrivalled account of turning points and breakthroughs in medical knowledge and practice, from ancient Egypt, India and China to the latest technology. Sickness and health, birth and death, disease and cure: medicine and our understanding of the workings of our bodies and minds are an inextricable pa ...Show more
One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives by Matt Morgan
$38.99 NZD
Category: Medicine
It all started with a Hob Nob. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient who had suffered a cardiac arrest after inhaling some biscuit crumbs, he saw a flock of birds fly past the window. They must inhale objects all the time when flying, how do they survive? he thought to hims ...Show more
This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women by Marieke Bigg
$39.99 NZD
Category: Medicine
Did you know: women are 59% more likely than men to receive an incorrect diagnosis when experiencing heart attack. Or: women are more susceptible to pain medications than men, leading to higher rates of addiction because doctors simply prescribe pain medication in the same way. Or: among alcoholics, wom ...Show more
Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn
$27.99 NZD
Category: Medicine
Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, felt ashamed of them, were humiliated by them. But as doctors, researchers, campaigners and most of all as patients, women have continuously challenged medical ...Show more
After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond by Bruce Greyson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Medicine
The world's leading expert on near-death experiences reveals his journey toward rethinking the nature of death, life, and the continuity of consciousness.What happens when we die? 10% of people whose hearts stop report near-death experiences (NDEs). Stories of lights, tunnels and loved ones have been re ...Show more
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR(tm)) by American Psychiatric Association
$310.35 NZD
Category: Medicine | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), is the most comprehensive, current, and critical resource for clinical practice available to today's mental health clinicians and researchers. DSM-5-TR includes the fully revised text and references, upda ...Show more
Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota
$40.00 NZD
Category: Medicine
A passionate account of the toxic culture of bullying and overwork that junior doctors can experience in the workplace as part of their training. Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream: model student, top of her class in medical school and on track to becoming a surgeon. A self-confessed workah ...Show more
Finding Hope in the Lived Experience of Psychosis: Reflections on Trauma, Use of Power and Re-visioning Psychiatry by Patte Randal, Josephine Stanton
$59.99 NZD
Category: Medicine | Series: International Society for Psychological and Social Approache Ser.
This book offers first-person accounts of the experience of psychosis from the inside and the outside, through the eyes of two doctors, one of whom has experienced psychosis and both of whom have worked for decades in the field of psychiatry. Both authors are New Zealanders. Underpinned by rigorous aca ...Show more
Survival of the Sickest : A Medical Maverick discovers why we need disease by Sharon Moalem with Jonathan Prince
$42.00 NZD
Category: Medicine
In this groundbreaking and absorbing book, wunderkind Dr. Sharon Moalem delves back into the evolution of man to reveal hitherto unknown and astonishing ways the human body is built to survive. With this revolutionary new book, Sharon Moalem completely turns modern medicine's understanding of disease on ...Show more