New York: Other Press, (2010). First edition - A report on the latest thinking in prostate cancer therapy: close monitoring - active surveillance rather than surgery or radiation - should be the initial treatment approach for many men. While that is probably still the best option, since this book was written, testing guidelines have been changed, and there has been an increase in prostate cancer. Notes, glossary, bibliography, resources. vi, 293 pp.

New York: Kensington, (2002.). First edition - Foreword by by Ifeanyi C. O. Obiakor, M.D. Written by a woman who herself had surgery for her fibroids, this is packed full of good advice - not just for black women with fibroids, but for all women - on exercise, diet, taking control of your health and health care and more. Monique Brown's name and phone number handwritten on first page. Resources, notes. 283 pp.

Philadelphia and New York: Lea & Feibiger, (1920). Hardcover - A comprehensive look at the topic, illustrated with 329 engravings. The sixth edition adds chapters on light and sterilization in Part I, among other changes. Index. xi, 954 pp.

New York: Ballantine, 1999. SIGNED - All the facts about the new treatment for nearsightedness, astigmatism and farsightedness, by one of the leading surgeons in this area. SIGNED by the author on the half title page, bookplate with 'compliments of the author' inside the front cover. ISBN: 0-345-409515.

Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1960. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Autobiography of the early life of a doctor who came to California with his family in 1881 when he was just one year old, who grew up in Garden Grove in southern California, attended Stanford and Johns Hopkins Medical School, served in both World War I and World War II, and practised medicine for most of his life in the Long Beach area, Includes early history of the area, an account of the earthquake of 1906 which hit was he was at Stanford, his training at Johns Hopkins, and service during the first World War and more. Illustrated with many photographs .Foreword by Merton E. Hill, Ed.D. SIGNED on the half title page. 264 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book under his own name, and the first work of nonfiction by the author of The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park. Glossary, bibliography. 231 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon.

New York: Berkley, (2006). First edition - Although most U.S. cities in both the North and the South suffered through yellow fever outbreaks for 200 years, the worst in the history of the U.S. was in Memphis Tennessee in 1878, when Memphis became a 'city of corpses.' The federal government to finally determined to find the cause of these debilitating outbreaks. Work that took twenty years but led to one of our greatest successes in medical history: Walter Reed's work in Cuba that finally proved mosquitoes, not "miasma" or filth, brought on a yellow fever season. His work led to later development of a vaccine, the same one still in use today. Notes, selected bibliography. 296 pp.

Kill Devil Hills, N.C.: Transpersonal Publishing, (2007). SIGNED - "A book which offers strategic information and hope for parents of A.D.D./A.D.H.D. children by taking a holistic, mind-body approach to the disorder. In this second edition, the authors give up-to-date information about current drug therapies with penetrating insights about their use and abuse, challenging readers to either integrate holistic and conventional medical approaches or abandon alopathics for a natural, effective approach for 'moving beyond'." INSCRIBED on the first page by the author, Rita Kirsch Debroitner. Notes, bibliography, index. xviii, 320 pp. ISBN: 978-1929661190.

Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1823. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays by this noted Philadelphia physician, who is considered as changing the history of obstetrics in the US; he was among the first to contend with professional prejudice against doctors delivering babies, and his work helped to make it a respected branch of medicine. Topics include blood-letting; premature birth; rupture, inversion, haemorrhage and retroversion of the uterus; a reply to Dr. Peachy Harrison re impregnation; observation on Burns' "History of the Gravid Uterus;" sudden alteration of the color of the hair; use of volatile tincture of guaiacum in Catamenia; puerperal convulsions; dysmenorrhoea; suppression of menses; Bell's paper on the muscularity of the uterus and much more. iv, 9-479 pp.

New York: The Free Press 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition -. ISBN: 0-684-869004.

Boulder CO: Blue Poppy Press, 1988. Articles on Chinese medicine, including acupuncture which have not previously been available in English. Calligraphy by Zhang Ting-Liang. End Notes. 332 pp. ISBN: 0-936185104.

London: Tavistock Publications. (1962) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of reports by ten doctors associated with Family Planning Association clinics, who participated with a psychoanalyst in a supervisory seminar in which new techniques were developed for dealing with problems of non-consummation. Includes the findings in 100 cases, with a detailed discussion of 16 of these. A title in the Minda and Medicine Monograph series, edited by Michael Balnit, and with a foreword by him. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. Appendix, bibiolography, index, xiii, 161 pp.

New York: Picador, (2008). An examination of medical failure and triumph, and of how success is achieved in this complex and risk-filled profession. "At once unflinching and compassionate, 'Better' is an exhilarating journey, narrated by 'arguably the best nonfiction doctor-writer around'." Notes on sources. 273 pp. ISBN: 978-0312427658.

New York: Metropolitan Books/ Henry Holt, (2014) dj. Hardcover - ,Gawande examines the "ultimate limitations and failures - in his own practices as well as others - as life draws to its close. He follows a hospice nurse on her rounds, a geriatrician in his clinic, and reformers turning nursing homes upside-down. He finds people who shows us how to have the hard conversations and how to ensure we never sacrifice what people really care about." Notes on sources. 282 pp. ISBN: 978-0805095159.

New York: World Publishing Co., (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the discovery by an Irish doctor working in Uganda of a previously undiagnosed form of cancer which was killing children in Africa - and his search for an effective treatment for it. At the time this book was written the cure rate for Burkitt's lymphoma was greater than 60%; it is now 85-90%. Map, photographs. xii, 236 pp.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Young actor's memoir of his fight against leukemia - including several rounds of chemotherapy, remission and a recurrence treated with an autologous bone marrow transplant. Informative and moving. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-316-344095.

Pony, MT: HOPS Press, (2009.). SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A tale of herbal wisdom and personal empowerment" written and illustrated by Jesse Wolf Hardin and inspired by his young daughter's questions. Includes a 'Name the Herb Game.' SIGNED on the front endpaper and dated in 2009. Large format, 43 pp plus 3 pp advertisements. ISBN: 9781892784315.

New York & London: Methuen (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first comprehensive look at the literature on a sometimes controversial alternative to treatment of alcoholism - one which says that total abstinence is not the only answer. Foreword by D. L. Davies. References. Name and subject indexes. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-416-719708.

Tucson: Galen Press, Ltd, (1994) dj. Hardcover - A comprehensive book on the physical and cultural aspects of death - from "embalming, cremation, cryogenics, autopsies, organ donation, anatomical dissection, burials, funerals, decay, cannibalism, body snatching, use of corpses in secret rituals and religious ceremonies. This book sheds light on a subject that our society conveniently buries - literally and figuratively." References at the end of each chapter. Illustrated with drawings. Glossary, appendices, index. 705 pp. ISBN: 1-883620074.

New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1867. Hardcover - Illustrated with many small drawings. Includes questions for each chapter. 427 pp.

New York: McGraw-Hill, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by author on title page. The story of an emergency room psychiatrist who traveled to Zimbabwe to take the helm at a hospital there - a story of medicine at the crossroads of two cultures, where mental illness is often considered a sign of witchcraft or a contagious illness to be shunned. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-071367349.

New York: Physical Culture Publishing, c, 1899. Hardcover - Advice on caring for your hair for both men and women from one of the leading proponents of physical fitness of his time. Photographs. 140 pp. A small volume measuring just 4 3/4 by 6 3/4 inches.

Atlanta: Turner Publishing, Inc. (1996.) dj. First edition - "An intense personal account of more than a quarter-century on the front lines - in the ultra high-tech "hot zone" lab that the author createdat the Centers for Disease Control headquarters in Atlanta, as well as in the most primitive places on the planet. . . in the villages of Zaire and Sudan, the ghettoes and rain forests of Brazil, the nomadic settlements of Northern Pakistan." Photographs, maps, index. 379 pp. ISBN: 1-57036-2777.

New London, New Hampshire: Tiffin Press, (1995.). Hardcover first edition - Biography (by his eldest daughter) of this doctor, a college and Olympic athlete, and a deeply religious man, who spent most of his life serving in China - from 1907 to 1912 and in Shanghai from 1914 to 1942, including under the Japanese occupation, and following repatriation to the U.S. during World War II, he returned to China after the war, " helping in the monumental task of revitalizing the St. John's University medical department, coping with wartime devastation, shortages of money, fuel, food, supplies, and the vagaries of an emerging communist government." Photographs. List of graduates of St John's Medical College, Notes. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-9646018-18.

San Francisco: The Femina Company, 1893. Hardcover first edition - The author was a graduate of the Medical Department of the University of California who also held credentials from the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg. The prefatory note indicates that this work, deals mainly with inflammatory diseases in women and while imparting strictly scientific information, uses familiar language, avoiding technical terms where possible, to make it accessible to the general reader. For example, in a chapter entitled "Delusions on the Curative Powers of Drugs" Miller emphasizes the body's ability to heal itself. There is also an occasional reference to patent medicines like the "gentle Femina laxative syrup." Frontispiece portrait, illustrated with several full page drawings. Index. 422 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000). Hardcover first edition - A book by this surgeon who is also an award-winning writer on how human have perceived the organs of our bodies over the centuries - he "shows us how we came to understand the organs from which we've derived the strongest and strangest mythology--stomach, liver, heart, spleen, and uterus. After reading this book, you'll be able to smile appreciatively when someone expresses a 'gut feeling'." Index. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-684854864.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Hardcover first edition - A book by this surgeon who is also an award-winning writer - "an inspiring search - within the interior of our bodies - for the biologically elusive quality of life that defines us. . . a portrait of the tumultuous universe within us - and shows how, amazingly, the stability of health rides on these tempests." Glossary, Index. xxiv, 395 pp. ISBN: 0-679444076.