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André Grimaldi, Frédéric Pierru

Your Health in the Future

How can we maintain the quality of care in hospitals? Is our health system equipped to respond to the challenges of the aging of the population and of chronic illnesses?

Hélène Merle-Béral

The Biology of Immortality Who wants to be immortal?

Immortality is no longer what it used to be. This brief history introduces the proponents and the implications of it. Life can be prolonged; medical science is constantly proving this; but it cannot thwart the great laws of biology.

Albert Najman

Creating Blood, Bone Marrow

The most recent discoveries in the functioning of bone marrow represent a great hope for treating diseases such as thalassemia, leukemia, lymphoma, and others.

Christian Perronne

The Scandal of Lyme Disease New edition 2019

Among 30,000 new cases per year are detected by the Sentinelles network (which estimates pathology in France) and 65,000 cases recorded by France Lyme. The numbers are on the rise in France, particularly in eastern France. There are 65 000 chronic cases of borreliosis (2013 figures). The definitive reference work on Lyme disease by France's foremost specialist in the disease. The story of a health scandal condemned by the author.

Laura Arnal, Charlotte Guttinger

I Beat Lyme’s Disease

With climate change, there is a risk of a proliferation of ticks and contractions of the disease. The book reads like a novel; alongside the main story, other accounts illuminate the struggles of Lyme disease sufferers.

Delphine Lhuillery, Erick Petit, Eric Sauvanet

All about endometriosis Relieving pain, curing illness

This is the first scientific and accessible book on endometriosis, this specifically female disease, which is still too little known to patients, but also to the medical profession.

Jean Abitbol

Woman’s Voice

A comprehensive book on the female voice by one of the best specialists, who works with people whose voice is their primary tool: teachers, singers, men and women politicians.

Éric Vivier, Marc Daëron

Immunotherapy of cancers History of a medical revolution

This book tells the story of the research and ideas that led to this medical revolution.

Guy Simonnet, Bernard Laurent, David Le Breton

Humans In Pain

A complete analysis of the phenomenon of pain on three levels: neurobiological, medical, and anthropological.

Anne-Lise Giraud

The Brain and Speaking Disorders Aphasia, Dyslexia, Deafness, Stuttering

Both clear and detailed, a book that provides correct answers to the questions that are asked about speech and the pathologies related to it.

Gérard Slama

Living Better with Diabetes Third edition revised and expanded

A true little encyclopedia of diabetes. Dr. Gérard Slama: one of the foremost experts, more than 40 years spent treating diabetics. To understand the various types of diabetes, their characteristics, their treatments. Essential rules to treat oneself when one is insulin-dependent.

Bernard Kouchner, Patrick Aeberhard, Jean-Pierre Daulouède, Bertrand Lebeau Leibovici, William Lowenstein

Toxicos Drug addiction: Thirty Years that Changed Everything – But Tomorrow?]

Against the institutional inertia and the comfort of habits of thought, the invigorating and instructive account by five uncommon brothers in arms, driven by the same will to care for those who in the past were despised.

Patrick Clervoy

The Power of Mind over Body

The role and the power of the mind in healing: a completely new approach. An approach that looks to history, philosophy, biology, psychiatry – all that goes into the healing process.

Alain Ehrenberg

The Mechanics of Passions: The New Contemporary Individualism

The book’s very stimulating thesis: the twenty-first century will be the century of the brain and the neurosciences, which are already playing the role that psychoanalysis played in the twentieth century.

Bernard Sablonnière

Hopes For a Long and Good Life

A very accessible, clear book with rigorous scientific explanations, enabling the reader to see the differences between false miraculous recipes and true possibilities to act against aging.

Yves Pouliquen

The Revolution in Eye Surgery the Journey of a Great Surgeon

The exceptional journey of one of the greatest specialists in ocular surgery. A reflection on medicine and the extraordinary progress carried out in 50 years.