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History Of Medicine

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  • 201 Books
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The True History of Tea
Strange Glow
Diabetes
Breakthrough
The Kissing Bug
Death in a Small Package: A Short History of Anthrax
Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
The making of a tropical disease
For the Good of Mankind?: The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation
Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life
A History of Medicine in 50 Objects
The Heart Healers: The Misfits, Mavericks, and Rebels Who Created the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of Our Lives
The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire
American Zombie Gothic
Of Mice, Men, and Microbes: Hantavirus
Lyme Disease: The Ecology of a Complex System
Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe
Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
Stuck
Good germs, bad germs : health and survival in a bacterial world
The Illustrious Dead
Strange Bedfellows
The world of caffeine
The Fever Trail: In Search of the Cure for Malaria
The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis
The Vaccine Race
Mummies, Disease and Ancient Cultures
The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Won - And Lost
No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States Since 1880
Cholera: The Biography
The Fate of Rome
Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox
Dead men do tell tales
Unwell
Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat
A Disease Apart: Leprosy in the Modern World
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA
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Pox

Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World
An American Plague
The Mind Has No Sex?: Women in the Origins of Modern Science
A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks
Aspirin
The Icepick Surgeon
Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770
Charlatan
State of the Heart: Exploring the History, Science, and Future of Cardiac Disease
The Birth of the Pill
Close to the Sun: The Journey of a Pioneer Heart Surgeon
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The Day of St. Anthony's Fire

Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle
Spitting Blood
Anatomies
Rats, Lice, and History
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Crying

The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
The Doctor Who Fooled the World
If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine
American Sirens
The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
How We Got to Now
Searching Eyes
Lead Wars
Cranioklepty
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How Sex Changed

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The Plutonium Files

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography
Doubting sex: Inscriptions, bodies and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
The Doctors Blackwell
For Her Own Good
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Under the Knife

The Royal Art of Poison
Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History
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Hearing Happiness

The Sleeping Beauties
A History of Delusions
Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
The Lady and Her Monsters
Lactivism
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Contraception

More Than Medicine: A History of the Feminist Women's Health Movement
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The politics of vaccination

Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
The Sublime Engine
The Source of All Things: A Heart Surgeon's Quest to Understand Our Most Mysterious Organ
Search and Rescue: A Wilderness Doctor's Life-and-Death Tales of Risk and Reward
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The Chemical Age

Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep
Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
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