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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Perineum Dialogues (The) - Lifting the veil on perineal disorders

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..

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.