Biomedical Engineering Books

The Age of Genomes
by Jon Luoma, Steven Monroe Lipkin
Review
Outbreaks and Epidemics
by Meera Senthilingam
Sex Matters
by Alyson J. McGregor
Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens
by Muhammad H. Zaman
Epidemics and Society
by Frank M. Snowden
Multiphoton Microscopy
by Espen Hartveit
Review
The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are
by Libby Copeland
Review
Virus: An Illustrated Guide to 100 Incredible Microbes
by Marilyn Roossinck
Review
Nano Comes to Life
by Sonia Contera
Review
The Rules of Contagion
by Adam Kucharski
Review
Immortality, Inc
by Chip Walter
Review
Elderhood
by Louise Aronson
Review
Chasing the Invisible
by Thomas Grogan MD
Review
How the Brain Lost Its Mind
by Allan Ropper
Review
Sex, Lies, and Brain Scans
by Barbara J. Sahakian and Julia Gottwald
Review
Wavefront Shaping for Biomedical Imaging
by Joel Kubby, Meng Cui, Sylvain Gigan
Review
The NeuroGeneration
by Tan Le
Review
Advanced Biophotonics: Tissue Optical Sectioning
by Ruikang K. Wang and Valery V Tuchin
Review
Superbugs: the race to stop an epidemic
by Matt McCarthy
Review
Miracle Cure
by William Rosen
Review
The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
by Azra Raza
Review
Radical: The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America
by Kate Pickert
Review
The Remarkable Life of the Skin
by Monty Lyman
Review
Collecting Experiments: Making Big Data Biology
by Bruno J. Strasser
Review
Meat Planet: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food
by Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
Review
The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
by Susan Hockfield
Review
Volume Control
by David Owen
Review
Neurophotonics and Biomedical Spectroscopy
by Lingyan Shi and Robert R. Alfano
Review
Empirical Nursing: The Art of Evidence-based Care
by Bernie Garrett
Review
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
by Joshua D. Mezrich
Review
Skeleton Keys
by Brian Switek
Review
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
by Thomas Hager
Review
Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
by Eric Topol
Review
The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer
by Charles Graeber
Review
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood
by Rose George
Review
Heart: A History
by Sandeep Jauhar
Review
Fiber-Optic Sensors for Biomedical Applications
by Daniele Tosi and Guido Perrone
Review
Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart
by Mimi Swartz
Review
Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
by Randi Hutter Epstein
Review
The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel
by Rainer Willmann and Julia Voss
Review
Brainstorm: Detective Stories From the World of Neurology
by Suzanne O'Sullivan
Review
The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body’s Natural Defences
by Daniel M. Davis
Review
Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s Pain
by Abby Norman
Review
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth (Random House Large Print)
by Michio Kaku
Review
The Stem Cell Revolution
by Mark Berman and Elliot Lander
Review
Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness
by Kate Cole-Adams
Review
Counting Backwards: A Doctor’s Notes on Anesthesia
by Henry Jay Przybylo
Review
The Psychobiotic Revolution
by Scott C Anderson, John F. Cryan Ph.D, and Ted Dinan M.D. Ph.D
Review
Life through Time and Space
by Wallace Arthur, Stephen Arthur
Review
Imaging in Photodynamic Therapy (Series in Cellular and Clinical Imaging)
by Michael R. Hamblin, Yingying Huang
Review
3D Printing in Medicine
by Deepak M Kalaskar
Review
Immune: How Your Body Defends and Protects You
by Catherine Carver
Review
The Vaccine Race: How Scientists Used Human Cells to Combat Killer Viruses
by Meredith Wadman
Review
The Seeds of Life: From Aristotle to Da Vinci, from Sharks’ Teeth to Frogs’ Pants, the Long and Strange Quest to Discover Where Babies Come from
by Edward Dolnick
Review
Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions
by Richard Harris
Review
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
by Mark O'Connell
Review
Welcome to the Microbiome: Getting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes in, on, and Around You
by Rob Desalle and Susan L. Perkins
Review
Dawn of the Neuron
by Michel Anctil
Review
The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines
by Malcolm Gay
Review
Nonlinear Optical Systems: Principles, Phenomena, and Advanced Signal Processing (Optics and Photonics)
by Le Nguyen Binh and Dang Van Liet
Review
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ
by Giulia Enders
Review
The Handbook of Medicinal Chemistry: Principles and Practice
by Simon Campbell
Review
The Death of Cancer: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable–and How We Can Get There
by Vincent T. DeVita and Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
Review
The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science (Ted Books)
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Review
Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum
by Gavin Francis
Review
Our Grandchildren Redesigned: Life in the Bioengineered Society of the Near Future
by Michael Bess
Review
The Heart Healers: The Misfits, Mavericks, and Rebels Who Created the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of Our Lives
by James S. Forrester
Review
The End of Memory: A Natural History of Aging and Alzheimer’s
by Jay Ingram
Review
Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson S Disease
by Jon Palfreman
Review
Applied Minds – How Engineers Think
by Guru Madhavan
Review
Eternal Ephemera: Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and Beyond
by Niles Eldredge
Review
In Search of Cell History: The Evolution Of Life’s Building Blocks
by Franklin M. Harold
Review
Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy
by Matthew Smith
Review
The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands
by Eric Topol
Review
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science — And the World
by Rachel Swaby
Review
p53: The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code
by Sue Armstrong
Review
Standardisation in Cell and Tissue Engineering: Methods and Protocols
by V. Salih
Review
Hydrogels in Cell-Based Therapies
by William L. Murphy, Bing Xu, Sarah Heilshorn, Roanne Jones, Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy, Rein Ulijn, Bernice Wright, Che J. Connon, and Ian W. Hamley
Review
The Organic Chemistry of Drug Design and Drug Action
by Richard B. Silverman and Mark W. Holladay
Review
In Retrospect: From the Pill to the Pen
by Carl Djerassi
Review
At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise
by Michael Brooks
Review
The Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery
by Rob Dunn
Review
The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity
by Norman Doidge
Review
Conquering Concussion: Healing TBI Symptoms with Neurofeedback and Without Drugs
by Mary Lee Esty and C. M. Shifflett
Review
On Immunity: An Inoculation
by Eula Biss
Review
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande
Review
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
by Jonathan Eig
Review
Falling Behind?: Boom, Bust, and the Global Race for Scientific Talent
by Michael S. Teitelbaum
Review
Dr. Mutter’s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Review
The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
by Arthur Allen
Review
The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers
by Joanna Bourke
Review
Lasers for Medical Applications: Diagnostics, Therapy and Surgery
by Helena Jelinkova
Review
Handbook of Biologically Active Peptides
by Abba Kastin
Review
Madness and Memory: The Discovery of Prions – a New Biological Principle of Disease
by Stanley B. Prusiner
Review
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
by Henry Marsh
Review
Paul Lauterbur and the Invention of MRI
by M. Joan Dawson
Review
Our Posthuman Frontier: Transhumanism, Human Purpose & Our Future Evolution
by Ted Chu
Review
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
by Martin Blaser
Review
On the Cancer Frontier
by Paul Marks and James Sterngold
Review
Cured: How the Berlin Patients Defeated HIV and Forever Changed Medical Science
by Nathalia Holt
Review
Brain Imaging: What it Can (and Cannot) Tell Us About Consciousness
by Robert G. Shulman
Review
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
by Michio Kaku
Review
Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century
by Kevin Fong
Review
Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
by Alexandra Levitt
Review
Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
by J. Craig Venter
Review
The Drugs Don’t Work (Penguin Special): A Global Threat (Penguin Shorts/Specials)
by Professor Dame Sally Davies
Review
Exploring Personal Genomics
by Joel T. Dudley and Konrad J. Karczewski
Review
The Essential Physics of Medical Imaging
by Jerrold T. Bushberg, J. Anthony Seibert, Edwin M. Leidholdt, and John M. Boone
Joining and Assembly of Medical Materials and Devices
by Y (Norman) Zhou and Mark D. Brevan
Review
Me Medicine Vs. We Medicine: Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good
by Donna Dickenson
Review
The End of Plagues: The Global Battle Against Infectious Disease
by John Rhodes
Review
Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know
by Peter C. Doherty
Review
The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine’s Deepest Mystery
by George Johnson
Review
An Introduction to Medicinal Chemistry
by Graham L. Patrick
Review
Computational Systems Biology of Cancer
by Emmanuel Barillot, Laurence Calzone, Philippe Hupe, Jean-Philippe Vert, and Andrei Zinovyev
Review
Genes, Cells and Brains: Bioscience’s Promethean Promises
by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose
Review
The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care
by Eric Topol
Review
NanoCellBiology: Multimodal Imaging in Biology & Medicine
by Bhanu P. Jena and Douglas J. Taatjes
Review
Statistics Explained: An Introductory Guide for Life Scientists
by Steve McKillup
Review
Denying Science: Conspiracy Theories, Media Distortions, and the War Against Reality
by John Grant
Review

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