Ребекка Склут4.1 Книга, которая потрясла мир в 2010 году. Бестселлер, побивший все мыслимые рекорды продаж.
Кто имеет право на наше тело, или его части, или биоматериал, взятый для анализов: мы, врачи, ученые?.. Впервые удалось культивировать "бессмертные" клетки человеческого тела в 1950-х. Это буквально перевернуло всю медицинскую науку. Клетки HeLa помогли разработать вакцины от полиомиелита, раскрыть секреты раковых заболеваний, вирусов и влияния ядерного взрыва; они помогли сделать важные шаги в изучении искусственного оплодотворения, клонирования и составления генетических карт.
И неизбежно стали предметом "купли-продажи": одни богатели, другие и не подозревали, что над ними проводят "опыты".
Это книга - драматичная история о судьбе простой женщины, которая подарила миру свои бессмертные клетки, о честных и нечестных врачах, о судебных баталиях, рождении биоэтики. Красивое и драматичное научное исследование, от которого невозможно оторваться.
Gareth Williams0.0 Angel of Death is a lively and powerful account of our battle against smallpox, the only disease that mankind has successfully eradicated from the planet. By weaving previously unrecorded voices in with the personal experiences of colourful historical figures such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Edward Jenner, Gareth Williams brings alive one of the most exciting success stories in the history of medicine. His book also gives original and engaging insights into the anti-vaccination campaigns which remain active today, and into the many unlearned lessons of smallpox. Angel of Death will appeal to all those moved by the excitement of discovery and stories of people fighting against adversity, and to anyone interested in history or medicine.
Tony Rennell, Eleo Gordon, John Nichol0.0 Doctors, nurses, medics and stretcher bearers go where the bullets are thickest, through bomb alleys and mine fields, ducking mortars and rockets, wherever someone is hit and the shout goes up - 'Medic! We need a medic over here'! This title tells the story of these brave men and women.
Lionel Shriver0.0 What do you pack for the rest of your life? The explosive new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin
Shepherd Knacker has been saving all his working life for a one way ticket away from the daily grind. When he sells his handyman business for $1million, ‘The Afterlife’ seems tantalisingly within reach. Yet his wife has concocted one reason after another why now isn’t the time to go. Determined to take the plunge, Shep announces that he is leaving for an island off the coast of Tanzania: with or without her. However, Glynis has an announcement of her own – she needs his health insurance.
Illustrating how a marriage is both stressed and strengthened by medical crisis, So Much for That puts the uncomfortable fiscal question: how much is one life worth? Enlivened by Shriver’s signature acerbity and political outrage, it’s surely the funniest and most entertaining novel about illness and death one’s ever likely to read.
Tim Parks5.0 Teach Us to Sit Still is the visceral, thought-provoking, and inexplicably entertaining story of how Tim Parks found himself in serious pain, how doctors failed to help, and the quest he took to find his own way out.
Overwhelmed by a crippling condition which nobody could explain or relieve, Parks follows a fruitless journey through the conventional medical system only to find relief in the most unexpected place: a breathing exercise that eventually leads him to take up meditation. This was the very last place Parks anticipated finding answers; he was about as far from New Age as you can get.
As everything that he once held true is called into question, Parks confronts the relationship between his mind and body, the hectic modern world that seems to demand all our focus, and his chosen life as an intellectual and writer. He is drawn to consider the effects of illness on the work of other writers, the role of religion in shaping our sense of self, and the influence of sports and art on our attitudes toward health and well-being. Most of us will fall ill at some point; few will describe that journey with the same verve, insight, and radiant intelligence as Tim Parks. Captivating and inspiring Teach Us to Sit Still is an intensely personal—and brutally honest—story for our times.
