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With more than one in ten Americans — and more than one in five families — affected, the phenomenon of migraine is widely prevalent and often ignored or misdiagnosed.

In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teen from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight—she had received a heart-lung transplantation of the wron

A dazzling memoir of chronic illness that explores the fraught intersection between pain, language, and gender, by a debut author.

An "obsessive, mystical, terrifying" exploration of the shadowy world of the anesthetized mind—and what it can teach us about the nature of memory and consciousness (*New Yorker*).

One of medicine's most remarkable therapeutic triumphs was the discovery of insulin in 1921.

"Ideas tumble out of Porter like wonders from some scholarly horn of plenty." -Sherwin B. Nuland, The New Republic.

This groundbreaking book chronicles the history of sickle cell anemia in the United States, tracing its transformation from an "invisible" malady to a powerful, yet contested, cultural sy

“[A] noteworthy examination of women and alcohol delivers compelling personal stories that illuminate previously neglected aspects of this devastating social problem.” —Publishers Weekly Mixing cut

A startling and important exposé on the state of medicine, research, and healthcare today by the Chief Medical and Scientific Officer of the American Cancer Society.

On Call begins with a newly-minted doctor checking in for her first day of residency—wearing the long white coat of an MD and being called “Doctor” for the first time.

An intimate and darkly comic memoir of a woman who does a 180 with her body. In the opening pages of *Passing for Thin*, Frances Kuffel waits at the airport to be picked up by her brother, Jim.

Patient by Patient is the memoir of a young doctor, fresh from residency, as she explores the joys and frustrations of beginning her medical practice.

Other twelve-step programs make small changes to the original Twelve Traditions used in Alcoholics Anonymous and offer interpretations specific to their programs.

Before she became a psychiatric nurse at "The Mental" in the 1950s, Kay Parley was a patient there, as were the father she barely remembered and the grandfather she'd never met.

A timely, insider account of an important and controversial step in British Columbia's strategic effort to respond to the overdose crisis.