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Uncertain Precision: Managing Health Care with Personalized Technologies

July 29, 2026 03:34 PM
Health care is becoming more personalized because all aspects are becoming more precise, in large part because of advances in technology. Examples include examining a person’s DNA to detect changes that cause or predispose to disease, enhanced imaging, enabling a person’s own immune cells to attack cancer, and connecting the brain directly with a computer. Many advances are supported by artificial intelligence.

Uploaded July 2026

The Asylum in the Long Nineteenth Century: Volume I, Lunacy and Lunatic Asylums in the Long Nineteenth Century

July 23, 2026 03:22 PM
This volume is concerned with the public and private lunatics asylums of England in the long nineteenth century, focusing on transcriptions of unusual and difficult-to-access primary source materials.

Uploaded July 2026

Committee Worlds: Governing Medical Research Through Ethics in the Asia-Pacific

July 23, 2026 03:20 PM
Committee Worlds: Governing Medical Research Through Ethics in the Asia-Pacific is an ethnographic book that explores how research ethics committees act as crucial, contested spaces where the standards, practices, and future directions of global medical research are determined.

Uploaded July 2026

Escape the Cape, From Existing to Evolving: Amplifying Voices of Black and Brown Women in the Mental Health Profession

July 23, 2026 03:16 PM
Escape the Cape, From Existing to Evolving: Amplifying Voices of Black and Brown Women in the Mental Health Profession examines the narratives of Black and Brown women all over the world who adherently take on the Superwoman Persona. The book amplifies the voices of Black and Brown women in the mental health and academia professions who needed a healthy outlet to shed light on their experiences.

Uploaded July 2026

Go/No-Go: A Journey Into the Research and Treatment of Mental Health Disorders

July 23, 2026 03:13 PM
Go/No-Go: A Journey Into the Research and Treatment of Mental Health Disorders by Marianne Apostolides explores contemporary neuroscience through the lens of a personal crisis. The book blends hard data with personal narrative, investigating emerging psychiatric treatments, the flaws of current mental health systems, and how neuroscience redefines the human mind.

Uploaded July 2026

Mental Illness: What Everyone Needs to Know

July 23, 2026 03:11 PM
Mental Illness: What Everyone Needs to Know tackles the enormous societal impact of mental health disorders. The book distills complex scientific and clinical data into easily digestible facts, utilizing a question-and-answer format to cover common symptoms, diagnostic processes, genetic factors, and treatments.

Uploaded July 2026

Savoring Care: Flourishing With Diabetes Across Cultures

July 23, 2026 03:08 PM
Savoring Care challenges conventional narratives about living with type 2 diabetes. This book moves the focus away from blame and stigma towards the ways people with this chronic illness foster care, resilience, and well-being in their daily lives. Rather than centering diabetes management solely on diet and personal responsibility, this book explores how individuals and communities support one another through shared meals, therapies, and other forms of practical care.

Uploaded July 2026

Schizophrenia: Your Questions Answered

July 23, 2026 03:05 PM
Schizophrenia: Your Questions Answered provides a broad, stigma-free introduction to the disorder. Written by psychologist Dr. Romeo Vitelli, the Q&A-style guide covers the origins, diagnosis, and management of schizophrenia while dispelling long-standing media myths.

Uploaded July 2026

USMLE Step 2 CK

July 23, 2026 03:01 PM
Using proven strategies from USMLE expert Dr. Conrad Fischer, Master the Boards USMLE Step 2 CK has the targeted review you need to excel on the exam and match into the residency program you want.

Uploaded July 2026

The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany

July 23, 2026 03:00 PM
In The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany, historian Barbara Duden challenges modern assumptions by arguing that our basic biological concepts are cultural constructs. By analyzing the medical records of 1,800 women treated by an 18th-century German physician, Duden reveals a radically different historical understanding of the female body.

Uploaded July 2026

Meg Frost

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