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American Overdose

American Overdose
ByChris McGreal

2018 • 9 Readers • 336 pages 4

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition

1987 • 145 Readers • 666 pages 4.3

Awakenings

Awakenings
ByOliver Sacks

90 Readers 4.2

Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens

2020 • 5 Readers • 320 pages 4

Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague

2019 • 13 Readers • 304 pages 3.6

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

5 Mary Roach's Curiosities

2008 • 242 Readers • 327 pages 3.9

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

2012 • 319 Readers • 288 pages 4

Breathless

Breathless
ByDavid Quammen

2022 • 27 Readers 4.4

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

1998 • 8 Readers • 385 pages 4

Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal

2015 • 24 Readers • 304 pages 4.5

Crisis in the Red Zone

Crisis in the Red Zone
ByRichard Preston

2019 • 35 Readers • 375 pages 4.3

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2001 • 6 Readers

Death in Mud Lick

2020 • 3 Readers • 8h 7m 3

Dopesick

Dopesick
ByBeth Macy

2018 • 161 Readers • 384 pages 3.9

Five Days at Memorial

2013 • 107 Readers • 546 pages 4.1

Get Well Soon

Get Well Soon
ByJennifer Wright

2017 • 91 Readers • 336 pages 4.2

Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe

2016 • 4 Readers • 289 pages

Gory Details

Gory Details
ByErika Engelhaupt

2021 • 68 Readers • 304 pages 4.2

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

5 Mary Roach's Curiosities

2016 • 160 Readers • 285 pages 3.8

Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive

2021 • 176 Readers • 462 pages 4.6

Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues

1999 • 14 Readers • 424 pages 3

Insane

Insane
ByAlisa Roth

2018 • 16 Readers • 320 pages 4.2

Is It All in Your Head?

Is It All in Your Head?
BySuzanne O'Sullivan

2015 • 2 Readers

Kill Shot: A Shadow Industry, a Deadly Disease

2020 • 10 Readers • 6h 34m 4.8

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

2017 • 5 Readers • 370 pages 4.5

Mystery of the Exploding Teeth And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

2018 • 18 Readers • 400 pages 3.3

My Stroke of Insight

My Stroke of Insight
ByJill Bolte Taylor

2006 • 6 Readers • 206 pages 3.5

Neurotribes

Neurotribes
BySteve Silberman

2015 • 147 Readers • 400 pages 4.3

Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood

2018 • 40 Readers • 368 pages 3.7

Nodding Off

Nodding Off
ByAlice Gregory

2018 • 6 Readers • 304 pages

Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine

2004 • 4 Readers • 356 pages 4

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

2023 • 155 Readers • 304 pages 3.9

Patient H.M

Patient H.M
ByLuke Dittrich

2016 • 5 Readers • 440 pages 4.5

Rabid

Rabid
ByBill Wasik,Monica Murphy

2012 • 70 Readers • 275 pages 3.5

Radiation

Radiation
ByRobert Peter Gale

3 Readers 3.5

Raising Lazarus

Raising Lazarus
ByBeth Macy

2022 • 14 Readers • 400 pages 3

Rough Sleepers

Rough Sleepers
ByTracy Kidder

2023 • 36 Readers • 320 pages 4.1

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Slime
ByRuth Kassinger

2019 • 10 Readers • 320 pages 5

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

2012 • 103 Readers • 592 pages 4.4

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

2005 • 156 Readers • 295 pages 3.5

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

5 Mary Roach's Curiosities

2003 • 692 Readers • 303 pages 3.9

Strange Medicine

Strange Medicine
ByNathan Belofsky

2013 • 5 Readers • 213 pages 4

Survival of the Sickest

Survival of the Sickest
BySharon Moalem,Jonathan Prince

2007 • 17 Readers • 267 pages 3.8

Ten Drugs

Ten Drugs
ByThomas Hager

2019 • 23 Readers • 320 pages 3.8

That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour

2019 • 8 Readers 4

The American Plague

The American Plague
ByMolly Caldwell Crosby

2006 • 30 Readers • 400 pages 3.6

The Cruelest Miles

The Cruelest Miles
ByGay Salisbury,Laney Salisbury

2003 • 14 Readers • 320 pages 3.5

The Doctors Blackwell

The Doctors Blackwell
ByJanice P. Nimura

2021 • 56 Readers • 336 pages 3

The Drug Hunters

The Drug Hunters
ByDonald R. Kirsch,Ogi Ogas

2017 • 10 Readers • 328 pages 3.5

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

2010 • 488 Readers • 571 pages 4.2

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

2006 • 251 Readers • 299 pages 3.9

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

2004 • 173 Readers • 609 pages 3.7

The Guarded Gate

The Guarded Gate
ByDaniel Okrent

2019 • 18 Readers • 496 pages 4

The Hot Zone

The Hot Zone
ByRichard Preston

1994 • 247 Readers • 448 pages 4

The Invention of Surgery

The Invention of Surgery
ByDavid Schneider

2020 • 8 Readers • 384 pages 3.5

The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

2018 • 19 Readers • 235 pages 4.3

The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women

2023 • 19 Readers • 208 pages 3.8

The Least of Us

The Least of Us
BySam Quinones

2021 • 24 Readers • 433 pages 4.5

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

2021 • 153 Readers • 320 pages 4.2

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

2016 • 518 Readers • 404 pages 4.2

The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

2018 • 34 Readers • 544 pages 4.2

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

2022 • 183 Readers • 496 pages 4.3

The Spiral Notebook

The Spiral Notebook
ByStephen Singular,Joyce Singular

2015 • 3 Readers • 304 pages 2.5

The Vaccine Race

The Vaccine Race
ByMeredith Wadman

2017 • 11 Readers • 436 pages 5

The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's

2008 • 9 Readers • 339 pages 3

Uncaring: How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Patients

2021 • 4 Readers • 320 pages

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2014 • 17 Readers 4

Unwell Women

Unwell Women
ByElinor Cleghorn

2021 • 82 Readers • 400 pages 4.3

Venomous

Venomous
ByChristie Wilcox

2016 • 15 Readers • 256 pages 3.8

When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

2019 • 15 Readers • 339 pages 3

When Doctors Don't Listen

2013 • 2 Readers • 334 pages 3