Medical research

  • The Scientist Who Wasn’t There

    £20.00

    Renowned scientist Professor Michael Briggs was many things: A Space expert at NASA; An adviser to the WHO; A successful Big Pharma executive. But Michael Briggs had a secret. A scandal broke out in 1986 when research he conducted was revealed to be compromised. Patients were also claiming that a pregnancy test he pioneered had caused devastating birth defects. Soon after his fall from grace, Briggs was dead, struck down by a mystery illness in a foreign country. Briggs left behind a long list of publications, patents, and inventions. But he also left behind hundreds of people who believe they are victims of his negligence and who are still fighting for justice to this day. And he left someone else: his daughter, Joanne. After decades of wondering who her father really was, Joanne decided to investigate for herself. As she discovered, Briggs’s greatest invention was himself.

  • Pharmanomics

    £18.99

    How Big Pharma failed to end a pandemic, and what it tells us about the global economy

  • Preventable

    £20.00

    Professor Devi Sridhar has risen to prominence for her vital roles in communicating science to the public and speaking truth to power. In ‘Preventable’ she highlights lessons learned from outbreaks past and present in a narrative that traces the COVID-19 pandemic – including her personal experience as a scientist – and sets out a vision for how we can better protect ourselves from the inevitable health crises to come.

  • Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks

    £10.99

    The internationally bestselling story of a young woman whose death in 1951 changed medical science for ever . . .

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