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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vi...

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Published: Mar 2011

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pionee...

Janice P. Nimura

New York Times Bestseller "Janice P. Nimura has resurrected Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell in all their feisty, thrilling, trailblazing splendor." —Stacy Schiff Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she w...

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Published: Jan 2022

The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the YearFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and "...

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Published: May 2017

Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fuel...

Philip Alcabes

Deaths from epidemic disease are rare in the developed world, yet in our technically and medically advanced society, an ever-present risk of disease has created an industry out of fear.As Philip Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, o...

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Published: Apr 2010

The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl...

Arthur Allen

"Thought-provoking. . . . [Allen] writes without sanctimony and never simplifies the people in his book or the moral issues his story inevitably raises."―Wall Street Journal Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus. Tran...

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Published: Jul 2015

Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic That R...

Molly Caldwell Crosby

A fascinating look at a bizarre, forgotten epidemic from the national bestselling author of The American Plague. In 1918, a world war raged, and a lethal strain of influenza circled the globe. In the midst of all this death, a bizarr...

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Published: Feb 2011

Witches, Midwives & Nurses: A History...

Barbara Ehrenreich

As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of health care in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work.Witches, Midwives, and Nurs...

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Published: Jul 2010

Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Tra...

Kevin Fong

Little more than one hundred years ago, maps of the world still boasted white space: places where no human had ever trod. Within a few short decades the most hostile of the world's environments had all been conquered. Likewise, in the...

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Published: Mar 2015

The Heart Healers: The Misfits, Maver...

James Forrester

At one time, heart disease was a death sentence. In The Heart Healers, world renowned cardiologist Dr. James Forrester tells the story of the mavericks and rebels who defied the accumulated medical wisdom of the day to begin conquerin...

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Published: Aug 2016

The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Eas...

Hannah Glasse

Revised and republished many times since its 1747 debut, this cookbook was a bestseller in England and the United States for more than 100 years. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owned copies, and Benjamin Franklin even translat...

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Published: Aug 2015

The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan...

Thomas Goetz

The riveting history of tuberculosis, the world's most lethal disease, the two men whose lives it tragically intertwined, and the birth of medical science. In 1875, tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in the world, accountable for...

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Published: Mar 2015

Kipling's If Meets Osler's Aequanimit...

John Clay McHugh M. D.

Kipling's "If" is arguably the most popular poem of all time in Britain. Osler is considered the "Father of Modern Medicine" and is unique in history in that he touted the importance of the humanities in the practi...

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Published: Feb 2016

The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medi...

Seth Mnookin

WHO DECIDES WHICH FACTS ARE TRUE? In 1998 Andrew Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist with a history of self-promotion, published a paper with a shocking allegation: the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine might cause autism. The media s...

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Published: Jan 2012

A Short History of Medicine

Steve Parker

Immerse yourself in the history of medicine, a colorful story of skill, serendipity, mistakes, moments of genius, and dogged determination.From ancient ideas about anatomy to today's sophisticated gene therapies and robotic surgery, A...

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Published: May 2019

In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room: Tra...

Aarathi Prasad

WINNER OF BEST POPULAR MEDICINE BOOK AT THE BMA MEDICAL BOOK AWARDSLONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 JHALAK PRIZEThe story of medicine in India is rich and complex: uniting cutting-edge technological developments with ancient cultural tradition...

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Published: Jan 2018

Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibio...

William Rosen

The epic history of how antibiotics were born, saving millions of lives and creating a vast new industry known as Big Pharma.As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver ...

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Published: May 2018

Outbreak!: 50 Tales of Epidemics that...

Beth Skwarecki

From ancient scourges to modern-day pandemics! Throughout history--even recent history--highly contagious, deadly, and truly horrible epidemics have swept through cities, countrysides, and even entire countries. Outbreak! catalogs fif...

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Published: Oct 2016

Through the Darkness: Glimpses into t...

Monica-Maria Stapelberg

The fascinating history of medicine in Europe is filled with curious, often bizarre, strange, and gruesome cures, enthusiastically espoused by physicians and other medical practitioners of the times. Repulsive and disgusting examples ...

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Published: Jan 2016

Medicine From Cave Dwellers to Millen...

MD Jonathan L. Stolz

Medicine and disease has preoccupied man from the age of the cave dweller to the present day millennial generation. In all cultures and eras populations have sought the means to preserve health and restore it when absent. How physicia...

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Published: Jul 2018

Rabid: A Cultural History of the Worl...

Bill Wasik

An engrossing, lively history of a fearsome and misunderstood virus that binds man and dog The most fatal virus known to science, rabies—a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans—kills nearly one hundred percent of its...

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Published: Jun 2013

Battlefield Medics: How Warfare Chang...

Martin King

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Published: Jul 2021
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