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History Of Medicine

#2

Mad, Bad And Sad

2011 • 608 pages

#3

Strange Medicine

2013 • 5 Readers • 213 pages • 4

#4

The Hot Zone

1994 • 252 Readers • 448 pages • 4

#5

Cover 5

2013 • 1 Reader

#6

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

2005 • 1 Reader • 364 pages

#7

Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America

2022 • 3 Readers • 240 pages

#8

The Search for an Abortionist: The Classic Study of How American Women Coped with Unwanted Pregnancy before Roe v. Wade

1969 • 1 Reader • 156 pages

#9

Body and Soul

2011 • 4 Readers • 289 pages

#10

Fatal Invention

2011 • 39 Readers • 400 pages • 4.8

#11

Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century: In and Beyond the Asylum

2019 • 1 Reader • 281 pages

#12

Cover 7

1960 • 1 Reader

#13

Superior: The Return of Race Science

2019 • 78 Readers • 258 pages • 4.4

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#14

Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

2021 • 1 Reader • 273 pages

#15

Cover 6

2001 • 1 Reader

#16

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

2018 • 8 Readers • 256 pages • 3.3

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#17

The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations

2017 • 5 Readers • 432 pages

#18

Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia

2021 • 6 Readers • 199 pages

#19

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

2011 • 169 Readers • 354 pages • 4.3

#20

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

2002 • 103 Readers • 270 pages • 4.1

#21

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

2017 • 120 Readers • 305 pages • 4.2

#22

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

2004 • 178 Readers • 609 pages • 3.7

#23

Asleep

19 Readers • 3.8

#24

Quarantine Life from Cholera to COVID-19: What Pandemics Teach Us About Parenting, Work, Life, and Communities from the 1700s to Today

1 Reader

#25

Polio: An American Story

2005 • 2 Readers • 342 pages • 4

#26

Plagues and Peoples

1976 • 59 Readers • 365 pages • 4

#27

Cover 7

3 Readers

#28

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery

2014 • 103 Readers • 416 pages • 4

#29

The American Plague

2006 • 5 Readers • 3.5

#30

Pain: A Political History

2014 • 3 Readers • 295 pages

#31

Not Tonight

2014 • 1 Reader • 260 pages

#32

Cover 6

2001 • 2 Readers

#33

Migraine

2019 • 293 pages

#34

Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill

2002 • 1 Reader • 419 pages

#35

A Taste for Poison

2021 • 107 Readers • 304 pages • 4.1

#36

Making Medicine: Surprising Stories from the History of Drug Discovery

2022 • 2 Readers • 248 pages

#37

Phantom Plague

2022 • 26 Readers • 320 pages • 3.2

#38

The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood

2022 • 3 Readers • 368 pages • 2

#39

The Urge

2022 • 21 Readers • 400 pages • 3.3

#40

A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine

2022 • 1 Reader • 408 pages

#41

Duel Without End: Mankind’s Battle with Microbes

2020 • 1 Reader • 633 pages

#42

The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History

2007 • 24 Readers • 370 pages • 3.4

#43

The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine

2022 • 1 Reader • 496 pages

#44

As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age

4 Readers • 464 pages • 3

#45

Bizarre Medicine: Unusual Treatments and Practices through the Ages

2022 • 1 Reader • 372 pages

#46

Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience

2022 • 1 Reader • 192 pages • 3

#47

Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence

9 Readers

#48

Blood work a tale of medicine and murder in the scientific revolution

2011 • 8 Readers • 4

#49

Cover 4

1998 • 10 Readers • 496 pages • 4

#50

Birth

2006 • 9 Readers • 312 pages • 4

#51

Flow

2009 • 26 Readers • 288 pages • 2.3

#52

Flu

1999 • 30 Readers • 342 pages • 3.7

#53

Breathless

2022 • 27 Readers • 4.4

#54

The Knife Man

2005 • 19 Readers • 342 pages • 4.5

#55

Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

1997 • 142 Readers • 352 pages • 4.1

#56

The Doctors' Plague

15 Great Discoveries

2003 • 6 Readers • 208 pages • 3

#57

The Secret Life of Dr. James Barry: Victorian England's Most Eminent Surgeon

2007 • 1 Reader

#58

Shocked

2014 • 11 Readers • 272 pages • 3.8

#59

Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons

2021 • 4 Readers • 242 pages

#60

Blood and Guts

2002 • 5 Readers • 199 pages • 4

#61

The Barbary Plague

2003 • 14 Readers • 304 pages • 2

#62

The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai

2005 • 161 Readers • 435 pages • 3.9

#63

Heart

2018 • 15 Readers • 3.7

#64

The Eradication of Smallpox: Edward Jenner and The First and Only Eradication of a Human Infectious Disease

2000 • 1 Reader • 246 pages

#65

Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: Diagnosing the Medical Groans and Last Gasps of Ten Great Writers

2012 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

#66

Dragon's Blood & Willow Bark: The Mysteries of Medieval Medicine

2015 • 7 Readers • 304 pages • 5

#67

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

2010 • 184 Readers • 319 pages • 4.1

#68

Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

2018 • 29 Readers • 4.7

#69

Cover 3

2014 • 39 Readers • 371 pages • 4.2

#70

Cover 3

2007 • 5 Readers • 3

#71

Smallpox: The Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer

2009 • 1 Reader • 334 pages

#72

The speckled monster

2003 • 9 Readers • 506 pages • 3

#73

Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases

2007 • 1 Reader

#74

Cover 3

2001

#75

The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years

2010 • 16 Readers • 320 pages • 4

#76

Terrible Typhoid Mary

2015 • 9 Readers • 229 pages • 3.7

#77

Human Remains: Episodes in Human Dissection

2005 • 1 Reader • 220 pages

#78

Sex Science Self: A Social History of Estrogen, Testosterone, and Identity

2016 • 1 Reader

#79

Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings

2004 • 7 Readers • 372 pages • 4

#80

Cover 3

5 Readers • 3

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#81

Cover 4

2010 • 2 Readers

#82

Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex

2009 • 2 Readers • 237 pages

#83

Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

2021 • 3 Readers • 235 pages

#84

Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine

2005 • 2 Readers • 388 pages

#85

Psychiatry and Its Discontents

2019 • 1 Reader • 376 pages

#86

Desperate Remedies

2022 • 6 Readers • 512 pages • 5

#87

Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity

2015 • 14 Readers • 448 pages • 4

#88

Hysteria: The Biography

2009 • 4 Readers • 256 pages • 2

#89

The Horrors of the Half-Known Life: Male Attitudes Toward Women and Sexuality in 19th. Century America

1976 • 1 Reader • 352 pages

#90

Cover 7

1 Reader

#91

Gentlemen's Disagreement: Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman, and the Sexual Politics of Smart Men

2013 • 1 Reader • 236 pages

#92

Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World

2007 • 7 Readers • 240 pages • 3

#93

The Power of Plagues

2005 • 1 Reader

#94

Period: The Real Story of Menstruation

2023 • 26 Readers • 264 pages • 3.8

#95

Cover 7

2000 • 3 Readers

#96

Dismissed: Tackling the Biases That Undermine our Health Care

2023 • 1 Reader • 306 pages

#97

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

2018 • 42 Readers • 368 pages • 3.7

#98

Blood Money

2023 • 2 Readers

#99

The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story

2002 • 58 Readers • 292 pages • 4.2

#100

Microcosm

2008 • 9 Readers • 243 pages • 4.5

#101

Cover 1

2001 • 6 Readers

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