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Christian Boitard

Overcoming Diabetes insulin

A clear and passionate account to better understand diabetes and the history of this illness.

Public Hospital is Ill: Diagnosis and Treatment (The) - Hospitals save lives, let’s save them too!

André Grimaldi

The Public Hospital is Ill: Diagnosis and Treatment Hospitals save lives, let’s save them too!

A diagnosis made on the basis of a 50-year decline in public hospital services, by one of the best specialists.

Wounds of the Soul (The) - When energy opens the way to healing

Alain Cassourra

The Wounds of the Soul When energy opens the way to healing

A contribution to the reflection on the art of osteopathic care.

After two years of health crisis, emergency response measures, overflowing hospitals and mass mobilization, a clear-eyed account of the state of hospitals today based on insider experience and lived examples.

Jocelyne Rolland

What To Do After Breast Cancer?

Concrete answers and adapted exercises, guided by a physiotherapist specialized in working with women who have had breast cancer.

Patrice Debré

Research in Times of Epidemics From AIDS to Covid

The views of a doctor, who analyzes the AIDS crisis as the catalyst for a new health democracy, in relation to the recent debates on the management of public health policies.

Jacques Laloum

Glaucoma Prevention, Detection, and Treatment

For the first time, a book of information written for a general audience and for patients, by one of the foremost specialists of this disease which affects more than a million French people.

Philippe Siou

Living

Starting with an account from the field written in an unrestrained tone by a practitioner dealing with a patient’s end of life, an unprecedented questioning on the deontology of a doctor and the intricacies of our hospital system.

Bernard Sablonnière

The Mysteries of the Human Body

Do your organs interest you? In this new book, Professor Sablonnière offers a guided tour of them, a new Fantastic Voyage that plunges us into the mysteries of the body and its arcana.

André Grimaldi

My Battle for Health Putting an End to 20 Years of Neglect

For a complete understanding of our health system and the succession of reforms “for increased productivity” of hospitals that have harmed it, without responding to the true new challenges happening now and to come.

Jean-Philippe Derenne

Covid-19

All that we know about the plasticity of this virus, which is constantly mutating and changing, which makes it completely unpredictable. Even in countries where the crisis was believed to be over (China, Iceland, Slovakia, etc.), new cases are emerging.

Michel Craplet

Alcohol, the Foremost Addiction Overcoming a Chronic Illness

Alcoholism remains a major subject in public health, much more toxic than drug addiction

Brain, Degenerative Diseases, and the Discovery of Deep Brain Stimulation (The) - The History of a Discovery

Alim Louis Benabid

The Brain, Degenerative Diseases, and the Discovery of Deep Brain Stimulation The History of a Discovery

An extraordinary journey into the world of neurosurgery and a fascinating presentation of the mysteries of a scientific and medical discovery and its consequences.

Anne de Kervasdoué

New Questions from Women Responses to 1001 questions that women ask about their health and their well-being, at every age in life

All the experience and knowledge of a gynecologist who has been listening to women for 40 years.

Jean Becchio, Bruno Suarez

What is New in Hypnosis From Hypnosis to Consciousness Activation

A subject that arouses very broad interest, approached here without the usual esoteric or spiritualist connotations, backed by the most recent advances in the neurosciences, and with very illuminating clinical cases.

Patrick Zylberman

The Vaccine War

An essential book for reflecting on the relationships between: the state and public health policies; scientists and experts; anti-vaccine movements (their ideological roots and sometimes conspiracy theories) and public opinion.

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?

Biology of Immortality (The) - Who wants to be immortal?

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.

Scandal of Lyme Disease (The) - New edition 2019

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.

Brain and Speaking Disorders (The) - Aphasia, Dyslexia, Deafness, Stuttering

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.