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          Hitler’s Maladies and Their Impact on World War II

          Hitler's Maladies and Their Impact on World War II

          A Behavioral Neurologist's View

          by Tom Hutton

          Foreword by Ronald F. Pfeiffer

          Price: $27.95

          ISBN: 9781682831663

          Pub Date: February 2023

          A neurobehavioral analysis of Adolf Hitler drawn from a lifetime of medical research and clinical experience.
          Carrying the Black Bag

          Carrying the Black Bag

          A Neurologist’s Bedside Tales

          by Tom Hutton M.D.

          Price: $27.95

          ISBN: 9780896729544

          Pub Date: November 2015

          During his thirty-plus years of practicing in West Texas and Minnesota, physician and neurologist Tom Hutton discovered that a doctor’s best teachers are often his patients. From these (extra)ordinary...
          Anatomy of a Kidnapping

          Anatomy of a Kidnapping

          A Doctor’s Story

          by Steven L. Berk M.D.

          Price: $18.95

          ISBN: 9780896729346

          Pub Date: February 2015

          In March 2005, medical school dean Steve Berk was kidnapped in Amarillo, Texas, by a dangerous and enigmatic criminal who entered his home, armed with a shotgun, through an open garage door. Forced...
          The Notorious Dr. Flippin

          The Notorious Dr. Flippin

          Abortion and Consequence in the Early Twentieth Century

          by Jamie Q. Tallman

          Foreword by Harriet Washington

          Price: $34.95

          ISBN: 9780896726758

          Pub Date: March 2011

          In 1910 a central Nebraska newspaper, the Aurora Sun, printed an editorial condemning a physician it dubbed “the notorious Dr. Flippin.” Dr. Charles Flippin’s reputation came under siege throughout the state as another newspaper editor alleged that the African American physician had committed “that most despicable of all crimes”—illegal abortion. For thirty years rural Kansans and Nebraskans had hailed Flippin as a godsend because of his skill as a physician and his willingness to help anyone regardless of race or social class. Despite performing abortions even for young white women, Flippin managed to avoid conviction in several trials until finally pleading guilty in 1924. Tallman details the doctor’s extraordinary life and analyzes the forces behind the prosecution of the aging physician. The first book to focus exclusively on attitudes towards abortion in early twentieth-century rural communities, The Notorious Dr. Flippin supplies long overlooked context for current debate and enriches studies...
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