physicians

Albucasis was born near C?rdoba in al-Andalus, the center of a flourishing culture of science and philosophy. There, the two disciplines often complimented one another as traditional Islamic theology and law were embraced alongside the secular sciences. Among the many Islamic physicians and scientists who advanced medical science in their lifetimes, Albucasis would codify the art of surgery in an encyclopedic work, al-Tasrif, that it is still read today. His story is intimately connected to the history of Islam and how Muslims preserved the knowledge of the old Roman world, information that Europe would not rediscover for another four hundred years.

"Here, in his own words, is the story of one of the twentieth century's most creative medical innovators, Dr. Henry Heimlich. The thoracic surgeon is best known for having developed the Heimlich Maneuver, the world's easiest-to-learn and most universally known method to save people from choking to death on food or foreign objects... Interweaving the author's personal life with riveting stories of his numerous medical breakthroughs, this ... memoir provides insights into the workings of a creative mind and the machinations of the American medical system"--Amazon.com.

Dr. Steven Hatch came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead, or barely clinging to life, and Ebola had become a world health emergency. With little help from the international community and a population ravaged by disease and fear, the war-torn African nation was simply unprepared to deal with the catastrophe. A physician's memoir, this book is also an explanation of the science and biology of Ebola---how it is transmitted and spread with such ferocity. While Ebola is temporarily under control, it will inevitably re-emerge, as will other plagues, notably the Zika virus, which the World Health Organization has declared a public health emergency.

In 1965, drafted into the Army to serve in Vietnam, Lawrence Climo, a young physician just out of training, learned of a unique humanitarian mission with counter-insurgency objectives that was looking for doctors: Military Provincial Hospital Augmentation Program (MILPHAP). Because it seemed an honorable as well as a doable enterprise he volunteered and began keeping a journal. At the time he appreciated the varied interactions with people of different relitious, social, radical, and ethnic cultures. But then he encountered a culture shock that proved toxic and threatened to corrupt everything.

"A young girl pretends to be a pediatrician while waiting for her baby brother's checkup and shows what it's like to be a professional doctor"--.

A graphic novel adaptation of the novel in which Arab-Israeli doctor Amin Jaafari is torn between his cherished memories of his wife and the inescapable realization that she was responsible for a deadly car bombing at a local restaurant.

A biography of Mary Edwards Walker, who shocked people in the last half of the 1800s by wearing men's pants and becoming one of the first women physicians in the United States. During the Civil War, she tended to the wounded on both sides, was given an officer's post, was arrested as a spy, and spent several months in a prison in Atlanta, Georgia. After the war, Mary Walker became the first female recipient of the Medal of Honor.

Explore the life and achievements of Elizabeth Blackwell. Photographs, a timeline, and easy-to-read text tell the story of America's first woman doctor.

When Grace Mae is sent to the Boston insane asylum she is pregnant with her father's baby and mute. But when the staff of the asylum push her too far, her voice erupts as she acts out violently causing her to lose her baby. Locked away in the basement for her actions, Grace is discovered by a visiting doctor who sees a brilliance inside her mind. He sneaks her away to his asylum in Ohio where she assists him in solving a string of murders. But the pair soon find themselves in the sights of the murderer, and Grace will need to face the pain she has been hiding from within herself so she can survive.

Tegan signs on as a ship's doctor, hoping for an epic adventure, but soon finds romance with Szarok, the Uroch vanguard, in a relationship that is both alien and forbidden.