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Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 22 cm
Description
It all started the previous summer. Marc, his wife, and their two beautiful teenage daughters agreed to spend a week at the Meier's extravagant summer home on the Mediterranean. Joined by Ralph and his striking wife Judith, her mother, and film director Stanley Forbes and his much younger girlfriend, the large group settles in for days of sunshine, wine tasting, and trips to the beach. But when a violent incident disrupts the idyll, darker motivations...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (972 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hugh Laurie stars as the brilliant but sarcastic Dr. Gregory House, a maverick physician who is devoid of bedside manner. Dr. House thrives on the challenge of solving medical puzzles that other doctors give up on.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
"Science is a force for good in the world--at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn't everything, it's the only thing--no matter thecost. Bestselling author Sam Kean tells the true story of what happens when unfettered ambition pushes otherwise rational men and women to cross the line in the name of science, trampling ethical boundaries...
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
viii, 291 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Offering examples of how to make medicine better for the healers and those they serve, If I Betray These Words profiles clinicians across the country who are tough, resourceful, and resilient, but feel trapped between the patient-first values of their Hippocratic oath and the business imperatives of a broken healthcare system.
6) Splice
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two young scientists become superstars by splicing different animal DNA to create fantastical new creatures. Ignoring legal and ethical boundaries, the scientists, who are romantically involved, introduce human DNA into their experiment and risk the dawn of a terrifying new era.
7) Anya
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this contemporary sci-fi love story about a newlywed couple, they turn to a scientist for help having a baby. Then, they find themselves at the center of a genetic puzzle with far-reaching implications and an ethically ambiguous solution.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
vii, 278 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"American taxpayers spend $30 billion annually funding biomedical research. By some estimates, half of the results from these studies can't be replicated elsewhere-the science is simply wrong. Often, research institutes and academia emphasize publishing results over getting the right answers, incentivizing poor experimental design, improper methods, and sloppy statistics. Bad science doesn't just hold back medical progress, it can sign the equivalent...
9) Charlatans
Author
Description
"Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from patient deaths. Known for its medical advances, the famed teaching hospital has fitted several ORs as "hybrid operating rooms of the future"--an improvement that seems positive until an anesthesia error during a routine procedure results in the death of an otherwise healthy man....
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018].
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (615 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A powerful new medical drama that focuses on the final years of a young doctor's training and rips back the curtain to reveal both the good and the bad in hospitals across the country.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 848 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As the courageous team of doctors, nurses and staff of Chicago Med deal with the pulse pounding pandemonium of the emergency room, heart wrenching drama impacts them both professionally and personally. With lives on the line every day, the ED team finds themselves on an emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the hospital that gets Chicago's most difficult and challenging cases.
14) Saving Amelie
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
453 pages
Description
Increasingly wary of her father's genetic research, Rachel Kramer has determined that this trip with him to Germany--in the summer of 1939--will be her last. But a cryptic letter from her estranged friend, begging Rachel for help, changes everything. Married to SS officer Gerhardt Schlick, Kristine sees the dark tides turning and fears her husband views their daughter, Amelie, deaf since birth, as a blight on his Aryan bloodline. Now hunted by the...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (997 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The dedicated doctors, nurses, and staff of Gaffney Chicago Medical Center are back for the pulse-pounding fourth season. The series continues to chronicle the daily life-and-death battles of Chicago2s elite medical professionals as they navigate challenging medical emergencies and intense personal drama. In last season's cliffhanger finale, Dr. Will Halstead got down on one knee and proposed to Dr. Natalie Manning, but will the two ever make it down...
Author
Description
"Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first 'immortal' human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (916 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Dr. Will Halstead balances the stress as the ER's supervising attending physician with his complicated relationship with Dr. Natalie Manning, an attending physician in emergency pediatrics. Newly remarried, Dr. Daniel Charles remains the Sherlock Holmes of psychiatry. Former Navy flight surgeon Dr. Ethan Choi brings his battlefield skills to the front lines of Chicago's busiest ER, the go-to-place for victims of the city's gun violence. Work and...
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"George Orr is haunted by dreams that become reality. In a world where pollution has destroyed the ice caps and plagues rage unchecked, a psychiatrist sees Orr's power as a way for humanity to escape its bleak fate. But as each attempt to direct Orr's dreaming ends in failure, the doctor's obsession with playing God grows stronger."--Container.
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