Book reviews

In our third and final installment of The Patient Paradox, Dr Margaret McCartney looks at the phenomenon of the 'expert patient'.

In this week's installment of The Patient Paradox, Dr Margaret McCartney asks: does depression by numbers do any good?

The first in our three-part serialisation of Dr Margaret McCartney's book, The Patient Paradox, asks: what do doctors do?

Copperfield reviews The Patient Paradox, the new book from fellow Pulse columnist Dr Margaret McCartney

A well-researched guide to obesity throughout the ages.

This little book may be aimed at patients, but it is written by leaders in the field and provides plently of useful information for healthcare professionals too

One for those with a special interest rather than most GPs - and short on some of the culturally relevant advice you might expect from a reference text

A reference book rather than a core text, but one packed full of interesting case vignettes, and more relevant to general practice than might at first seem

This doorstop of a book may not be bedtime reading, but it is a comprehensive, high-quality and refreshingly jargon-free reference guide

A personal, often useful and just occasionally baffling book about mental health that strays from practical tips on diagnosis to an academic take on underlying causes

Historical epic meets scientific biography in this account of the struggle to find cures for the diseases spread by mosquitos

The author uses a personal tragedy to make an impassioned, but one-sided, case for the introduction of screening in the UK

Not for reading cover to cover, maybe, but this study guide is meticulously referenced and exceptionally useful

Lots of easily accessible information about the new exam, and lots of bad jokes, in this curate's egg of a book

The new version of this financial manual for general practice provides everything you need to know about acountants, premises and tax in all its various forms

An eccentric and wide-ranging attack on lifestyle advice, screening programmes and the medical profession receives a rather sceptical reception from our GP reviewer

Patients' stories about their own experiences of depression form the basis of this book about the ongoing nature of the illness and recovery from it

Research fraud in all its forms comes under the microscope in this must-read for GPs who play an active role in clinical trials

A personal take on what the Bible teaches us about modern medicine and the part it plays in our lives

A journalist who has lived with diabetes for 35 years gives her take on how to live with - and take control of - the illness

Forget the negativity - our CCG has transformed mental health services, says Dr John Orchard.

The Department of Health, under both the current and previous government, has had an Orwellian tendency to dream up names for its policies that bear little relation to their true purpose.