The explosive new thriller from "New York Times-"bestselling author and master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook, takes readers back to where the genre began, with "Coma" what happens when innocent hospital patients are used as medical "incubators" against their will. Lynn Pierce, a fourth-year medical student at Mason Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine...

A science writer specializing in medicine, Fleischman tells how Gage, foreman of a railroad construction gang, survived an iron rod being blasted through his brain in 1848, and how the subsequent study of him contributed to the modern understanding of the central nervous system.

"Since THE THYROID DIET hit the New York Times bestseller list in 2004, the number of Americans diagnosed with thyroid disease has more than doubled--and that's just a fraction of the 50 million people suspected of living with the condition in the US. Now even more topical than its predecessor, THE THYROID DIET REVOLUTION identifies the factors that inhibit a thyroid patient's inability to lose weight and offers much-needed solutions"--

A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella. James Joyce, Ulysses Recently having abandoned his RD Laing-influenced experiment in running a therapeutic community - the so-called Concept House in Willesden - maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner arrives at Friern Hospital, a vast Victorian mental asylum in North London, under a professional and a marital cloud. He has every intention of avoiding controversy, but then he encounters Audrey Dearth, a...

The story of anti-vaccine activity in America, its origins, leaders, influences, and impact.