God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, an...
Victoria SweetA medical "page-turner" that traces one doctor's "remarkable journey to the essence of medicine" (The San Francisco Chronicle).San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendan...
His Brother's Keeper: One Family's Jo...
Jonathan WeinerStephen Heywood was twenty-nine years old when he learned that he was dying of ALS -- Lou Gehrig's disease. Almost overnight his older brother, Jamie, turned himself into a genetic engineer in a quixotic race to cure the incurable. Hi...
Here is the remarkable and inspirational autobiography of Ann Wigmore, an internationally recognized name synonymous with the discovery and use of raw and living foods for nutrition and health. This fascinating first-hand account incl...
The Demon Under the Microscope: From ...
Thomas HagerThe Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. This incredible discovery was sulfa, the first antibiotic. In' The Demon Under the Micr...