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1) Brain
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Putnam
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[1981]
Language
English
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A young girl arrives at Hobson University Medical Center to obtain her medical records and is never seen again... Inexplicably, another woman dies a horrible and agonzing death during brain surgery while under local anesthesia... Hidden in a drawer deep in the hospital morgue lies a female cadaver whose organs are intact, but whose brain is missing... When Assistant Chief of Neuroradiology Martin Philips and Denise Sanger, the beautiful young resident...
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Following his doctor's instructions, engaging simpleton Charlie Gordon tells his own story in semi-literate "progris riports." He dimly wants to better himself, but with an IQ of 68 can't even beat the laboratory mouse Algernon at maze-solving. Algernon is extra-clever thanks to an experimental brain operation so far tried only on animals. Charlie eagerly volunteers as the first human subject. After frustrating delays and agonies of concentration,...
3) Host
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The explosive new thriller from "New York Times-"bestselling author and master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook, takes readers back to where the genre began, with "Coma" what happens when innocent hospital patients are used as medical "incubators" against their will. Lynn Pierce, a fourth-year medical student at Mason Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine...
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