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Bernard Croisile
Alzheimer Everything You Need to Know about Alzheimer’s
A reference work that offers hope, by a top specialist on Alzheimer’s disease
David Khayat
To Prevent Cancer It Is Also Up To You!
Everything you need to know to adopt anti-cancer behaviour in your daily life
Steven Laureys
Such a Brilliant Brain The Boundaries of Consciousness
An engrossing book on states of consciousness and the workings of the brain, by one of the world’s top specialists
Jacques Thèze
The Immune System’s Strategies Developing New Treatments for Major Diseases
Ground-breaking approaches to the treatment of major diseases
Bruno Millet-Ilharreguy
Improved Therapies for OCD Brain Stimulation Offers Hope
A new therapy to overcome Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Luis Alvarez, Véronique Cayol
Psychology and Psychiatry of Pregnancy Becoming a Mother
The great upheaval of motherhood
Alexandra Meert
Living With Cancer A Better Quality of Life Thanks to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
A book that gives cancer patients the guidance and support they need
Stanley B. Prusiner
The Madness and Memory The Discovery of Prions — A New Biological Principle of Disease
Stanley B. Prusiner’s fascinating discovery, which revolutionised medicine
André Grimaldi, Jean-François Bergmann, François Chast, Claire Le Jeunne
The Truth About the Medications You Take
Medications, their benefits and risks, are closely scrutinised here by a team of experts
Fleur Lejeune, Édouard Gentaz
The Premature Child Cognitive Development in Premature Infants
Is brain development slower in preterm infants?
Patrick Bellet
Hypnosis, or How to Make Healthcare More Humane
Using hypnosis to improve personal healthcare
Jean-Philippe Wolf
Assisted Reproductive Technology: What Are the Limits? Donor Anonymity, Same-Sex Parenting, Surrogacy
An eminent biologist discusses the diversity of infertility cases, existing medical responses, current hopes — and the controversies surrounding Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART)
Annick Perrot, Maxime Schwartz
The Genius of Pasteur: Saving the ‘Poilus’
How Pasteur and his followers saved lives and changed the course of the war in 1914-1918
Michel Jouvet
The Sleep, Consciousness and Wakefulness
A major scientific work that offers a sweeping panorama of the state of consciousness, from Hippocrates to the latest findings in neurology.
David Khayat, Cécile Khayat , Nathalie Hutter-Lardeau
Anti-Cancer Cooking
A healthy, tasty and convivial style of cooking that is easy to prepare and fits with the tastes and constraints of modern living. Information on familiar and some less familiar foods with recognized anti-cancer properties.
Sylvie Geismar-Wieviorka
Treating drug users From cold turkey to shooting galleries
A front-line doctor explains how to treat drug addicts
Lionel Coudron
Yoga Therapy:Managing Pain About fibromyalgia syndrome
Fibromyalgia affects 2% of the general population, predominantly female. Practicing yoga does not replace treatment but complements it by applying simultaneously to the physical and psychological self.
Lionel Coudron
Yoga Therapy:Breaking Free from Anxiety and Panic
Yoga acts upon both the physiological and psychological aspects of fear, worry and all manifestations of anxiety. Medical expertise, step-by-step guide to exercise, and advice on general wellbeing.
Sylvie Angel, Pierre Angel
To avert medical errors with Medical Simulation
Models, role play, serious games, quizzes: a comprehensive description of materials and technical resources available today that can help caregivers and trainees in their practice. An outreach work aimed at ensuring that we are all aware of the importance of critical pedagogical practice in improving the quality of care that we tend to take for granted.
Boris Cyrulnik, Patrick Lemoine
The Crazy History of Crazy Ideas in Psychiatry
A lively and illuminating perspective on the history of a discipline that is still young. Unusual reflections on the future of treatment for psychiatric illness, based on past mistakes. Suggestions for helping the near future to become the Golden Age of psychiatry.
Jean Juras, Alain Bourcier
The Perineum Dialogues Lifting the veil on perineal disorders
A subject that can be hard to discuss, and a light-hearted yet well-documented way of addressing a taboo. Aimed at both women and men. Perineal issues after giving birth, after cancer treatments, in old age, after treatment for prostate cancer, etc..
Philippe Sansonetti
Vaccines
Yes, vaccines are necessary to good health. Fighting against short memory: who would want to return to the epidemics of the past? Why are vaccines crucial to health? An articulate and uncompromising argument.
André Grimaldi, Yvanie Caillé, Frédéric Pierru, Didier Tabuteau
The Truth About Chronic Diseases
A team of authors that brings together the greatest specialists in French medicine in the most important fields: diabetes, cardiovascular disease, neurology, infectious disease and allergies. A real encyclopedia, which leaves no point in the shadows: from difficulties in following treatment to patient-physician relations, from families and carers to the public health system. A book that anticipates future problems faced by medicine, by doctors and by patients.
François-Xavier Poudat, Marthylle Lagadec
Sex Out Of Control Overcoming Addiction
A unique practical guide that dares to tackle sex addiction without taboo. Information on sexual addiction, both in terms of research and treatment. Advice on how to deal with possible relapses.
Gilles Mondoloni
Guide to Osteopathy Edition 2017
Osteopathy, an effective treatment for commonplace aches and pains
Patrice Queneau, Claude de Bourguignon
Saving the General Practitioner
A powerful argument for keeping medicine human, citing the general practitioner as the guarantor. A book that can contribute to the debate on healthcare, and one that will find a favourable reception among general practitioners.
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.
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.
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.