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Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine

Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicineby

William Rosen

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Buzzed: The Straight Facts about the Most Used & Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy

Buzzed: The Straight Facts about the Most Used & Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasyby

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Blue Dreams

Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Mindsby

Lauren Slater

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Get Well Soon

Get Well Soonby

Jennifer Wright

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Deadliest Enemy

Deadliest Enemyby

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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plaguesby

Jonathan Kennedy

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Nodding Off

Alice Gregory

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Deadly Choices

Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us Allby

Paul A. Offit

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The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris

The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubrisby

Mark Honigsbaum

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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemicby

David Quammen

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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in Historyby

John M. Barry

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The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease

The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Diseaseby

Charles Kenny

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The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian Londonby

Steven Johnson

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The Vaccine Race

The Vaccine Raceby

Meredith Wadman

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The American Plague

The American Plagueby

Molly Caldwell Crosby

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Crisis in the Red Zone

Crisis in the Red Zoneby

Richard Preston

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The Hot Zone

Richard Preston

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Rabid

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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

The Premonition: A Pandemic Storyby

Michael Lewis

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The Drug Hunters

The Drug Huntersby

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Ten Drugs

Thomas Hager

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When Doctors Don't Listen

When Doctors Don't Listenby

Leana Wen

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How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't

How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthyby

F. Perry Wilson

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Rigor Mortis

Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billionsby

Richard F. Harris

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Strange Medicine

Strange Medicineby

Nathan Belofsky

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