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人間の脳が生みだす驚くべき世界　〔見てしまう人びと〕宙を舞うハンカチ、15センチの小人、失った手足の感覚。現実には存在しないものを知覚する「幻覚」。

2010年「国境なき医師団」に参加以来、20回近い海外派遣を経験した著者による生と死のドキュメント。

金と頭は健康に使え！　唯一無二の健康本が誕生！　ホリエモンが世界最先端の抗加齢医学研究者たちにインタビューし得た知見を公開。

「医の仁術」に背を向けた医師たち。病院内の幼き対立構造には呆れるーー作家・塩田武士氏絶賛！日本医学ジャーナリスト協会賞特別賞を受賞した話題作を文庫化。

緩和ケアに携わる身でありながら、萩原健一さんの命を奪ったのと同じ希少がんを患った医師、大橋洋平さん。初めて「患者として」実感した苦しみや気付きを朝日新聞に投稿し、大反響を呼んだ。

20世紀初頭に大流行した脳炎の後遺症で、言葉や感情、体の自由が奪われてしまった患者が、奇跡の新薬L-DOPAの投与によって目覚める。しかし体の機能回復に加え、人格まで変貌してしまうという怖い副作用が……。

10万人に１人の稀少がん・ジストを患いながらも、”心の免疫力が上がる言葉”を支えに生きる緩和ケア医・大橋洋平先生。

Neuroscientist Lipska was diagnosed early in 2015 with metastatic melanoma in her brain's frontal lobe. As the cancer progressed and was treated, she experienced behavioral and cognitive symptoms connected to a range of mental disorders, including dementia and her professional specialty, schizophrenia. Lipska's family and associates were alarmed by the changes in her behavior, which she failed to acknowledge herself.

Ever wondered what it was really like for a nurse on the frontline during the Covid pandemic? How did they juggle work and home life during this unprecedented time? This audiobook shares one nurse’s experience of being redeployed to set up and manage a ward during the first wave of the pandemic, all while running a household and caring for her parents after her mother’s two recent brain haemorrhages.

「私たちは必死に生きた。しかし、どう死ねばよいのか、それが分からなかった」なぜ、透析患者は「安らかな死」を迎えることができないのか？どうして、がん患者以外は「緩和ケア」を受けることさえできないのか？

「白血病で予後が良くない９歳の女の子に、“わたし、死んじゃうの？”と聞かれたら、何と答えますか？」

ＮＨＫ、朝日新聞等メディアの注目を集める「がんを生きる緩和ケア医」大橋洋平先生の著書第三弾。長引くコロナ禍、免疫系統に打撃を受けるがん患者にとっては厳しい日々が続く。

매일매일 마주하는 고통과 슬픔을. 뜨거운 심장과 투명한 눈물로 보듬어 낸 감동의 기록. 병동에서 하루하루를 사투하는 뜨거운 심장의 간호사로서 또는 연민으로 눈물짓는 한 개인으로서 마음의 매듭과도 같은 단상을 담은 이 책은 더불어 사는 세상의 따뜻함과 삶의 소중함을 다시 한 번 느끼게 하는 감동의 기록이다.

At a time when society’s relationship with science is increasingly polarized while threats to human life on earth continue to rise, Townsend offers a balanced, moving perspective on the common ground between science and religion through the spiritual fulfillment he found in his work. Awash in Townsend's electrifying and breathtaking prose, THIS ORDINARY STARDUST offers hope that life can carry on even in the face of near-certain annihilation.

Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their 12 children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins—aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the 10 Galvin boys, one after another, were diagnosed as schizophrenic.

A neuroscientist transforms the way we think about our brains, our health, and our personal happiness in this clear, informative, and inspiring guide - a blend of personal memoir, science narrative, and immediately useful takeaways that bring the human brain into focus as never before, revealing the powerful connection between exercise, learning, memory, and cognitive abilities.

The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar start-up, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose start-up ‘unicorn’ promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier.

Karl Deisseroth has spent his life pursuing truths about the human mind, both as a renowned clinical psychiatrist and as a researcher creating and developing the revolutionary field of optogenetics, which uses light to help decipher the brain’s workings. In Projections, he combines his knowledge of the brain’s inner circuitry with a deep empathy for his patients to examine what mental illness reveals about the human mind and the origin of human feelings - how the broken can illuminate the unbroken.

A political journalist and activist, Cousins was also a professor of medical humanities at UCLA, where he studied the biochemistry of human emotions and their relationship to healing. When Cousins was hospitalized with a debilitating collagen illness, he decided to take his health into his own hands. Cousins and his doctor combated the disease together by creating a regimen of laughter and vitamin C specifically calibrated to his needs. Against all odds, the treatment worked, proving to Cousins that a positive attitude was key to his improvement.

The inspiration for the BBC series of the same name. Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, to the young James Herriot 1930s Yorkshire seems to offer an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world. But from his erratic new colleagues, brothers Siegfried and Tristan Farnon, to incomprehensible farmers, herds of semiferal cattle, a pig called Nugent and an overweight Pekingese called Tricki Woo, James find he is on a learning curve as steep as the hills around him.