Wellcome Trust Book Prize

Given by Wellcome Trust

Otros Nombres: Wellcome Book Prize (Inglés)
86 Obras / 87 Items 100,893 Libros 4,881 Reseñas 4.1
"The Wellcome Trust Book Prize will highlight the value literature can bring to medicine by recognising the outstanding books that change the way each of us understands health and disease. The mostrar más Wellcome Trust aims to stimulate interest, excitement and debate about medicine and literature, reaching audiences not normally engaged with medical science."
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Stages:
Todos, Winner (10), Shortlist (51), Longlist (26)
Categorias:
Todos, No Category (87)
Years:
Todos, 2019 (12), 2018 (12), 2017 (12), 2016 (6), 2015 (6), 2014 (7), 2012 (14), 2011 (6), 2010 (6), 2009 (6)

Winner 10

ObraAño
Murmur por Will Eaves2019
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death por Mark O'Connell2018
The Heart por Maylis de Kerangal2017
Todo está en tu cabeza : historias reales de enfermedades imaginarias por Suzanne O'Sullivan2016
El iceberg por Marion Coutts2015
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity por Andrew Solomon2014
William Harvey: A Life in Circulation por Thomas Wright2012
Turn of Mind por Alice LaPlante2011
La vida inmortal de Henrietta Lacks por Rebecca Skloot2010
Keeper: One House, Three Generations, and a Journey into Alzheimer's por Andrea Gillies2009

Shortlist 51

ObraAño
Mind on Fire por Arnold Thomas Fanning2019
Heart: A History por Sandeep Jauhar2019
The Trauma Cleaner por Sarah Krasnostein2019
Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man por Thomas Page McBee2019
Mi año de descanso y relajación por Ottessa Moshfegh2019
Stay with Me por Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀2018
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine por Lindsey Fitzharris2018
With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial por Kathryn Mannix2018
Mayhem: A Memoir por Sigrid Rausing2018
The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease por Meredith Wadman2018
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS por David France2017
When Breath Becomes Air por Paul Kalanithi2017
The Tidal Zone por Sarah Moss2017
The Gene: An Intimate History por Siddhartha Mukherjee2017
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life por Ed Yong2017
The Outrun por Amy Liptrot2016
Signs for Lost Children por Sarah Moss2016
Playthings por Alex Pheby2016
The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister por Cathy Rentzenbrink2016
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity por Steve Silberman2016
Ante todo no hagas daño por Henry Marsh2015
Bodies of Light por Sarah Moss2015
The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us por Alice Roberts2015
My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind por Scott Stossel2015
All My Puny Sorrows por Miriam Toews2015
La firma de todas las cosas por Elizabeth Gilbert2014
Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I por Emily Mayhew2014
Creation: How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself por Adam Rutherford2014
Alucinaciones por Oliver Sacks2014
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity por Andrew Solomon2014
Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England por Sarah Wise2014
The hour between dog and wolf : risk-taking, gut feelings and the biology of boom and bust por John Coates2012
The Train in the Night: A Story of Music and Loss por Nick Coleman2012
Our Lady of Alice Bhatti por Mohammed Hanif2012
Perfect People por Peter James2012
Merivel: A Man of His Time por Rose Tremain2012
The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir por Sarah Manguso2011
El emperador de todos los males una biografía del cáncer por Siddhartha Mukherjee2011
State of Wonder por Ann Patchett2011
Némesis por Philip Roth2011
Querido, quería contarte por Louisa Young2011
Grace Williams Says it Loud por Emma Henderson2010
Medic: Saving Lives - From Dunkirk to Afghanistan por John Nichol2010
Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing por Tim Parks2010
So Much for That por Lionel Shriver2010
Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox por Gareth Williams2010
Illness: The Cry of the Flesh (The Art of Living) por Havi Carel2009
The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives por Brian Dillon2009
Intuition por Allegra Goodman2009
Sizwe's Test: A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS Epidemic por Jonny Steinberg2009
Hijos del ancho mundo por Abraham Verghese2009

Longlist 26

ObraAño
Polio: The Odyssey of Eradication por Thomas Abraham2019
This Really Isn't About You por Jean Hannah Edelstein2019
Freshwater por Akwaeke Emezi2019
Sight por Jessie Greengrass2019
Astroturf por Matthew Sperling2019
Educated: A Memoir por Tara Westover2019
The White Book por Kang Han2018
In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's por Joseph Jebelli2018
Plot 29: A Memoir por Allan Jenkins2018
Midwinter Break por Bernard MacLaverty2018
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death por Maggie O'Farrell2018
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst por Robert M. Sapolsky2018
Homo Deus: Breve historia del mañana por Yuval Noah Harari2017
The Golden Age por Joan London2017
Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body por Jo Marchant2017
The Essex Serpent por Sarah Perry2017
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes por Adam Rutherford2017
Miss Jane por Brad Watson2017
[sic]: A Memoir por Joshua Cody2012
The Evolution of Inanimate Objects por Harry Karlinsky2012
What is Madness? por Darian Leader2012
Intrusion por Ken MacLeod2012
No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses por Peter Piot2012
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths por Michael Shermer2012
Identically Different: Why We Can Change Our Genes por Tim Spector2012
The Moral Molecule: The Source of Love and Prosperity por Paul J. Zak2012

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