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History Of Medicine

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#102
The True History of Tea
The True History of Tea
  • Erling Hoh
  • Victor H. Mair
00 reads
#103
Strange Glow
Strange Glow
  • Timothy J. Jorgensen
43 reads
#104
Diabetes
Diabetes
  • Arleen Marcia Tuchman
00 reads
#105
Breakthrough
Breakthrough
  • Thea Cooper
  • Arthur Ainsberg
00 reads
#106
The Kissing Bug
The Kissing Bug
  • Daisy Hernández
4.255 reads
#107
Death in a Small Package: A Short History of Anthrax
Death in a Small Package: A Short History of Anthrax
  • Susan D. Jones
00 reads
#108
Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
  • William Rosen
4.53 reads
#109
The making of a tropical disease
The making of a tropical disease
  • Randall M. Packard
00 reads
#110
For the Good of Mankind?: The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation
For the Good of Mankind?: The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation
  • Vicki Oransky Wittenstein
3.51 read
#111
Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life
Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life
  • Haider Warraich
4.52 reads
#112
A History of Medicine in 50 Objects
A History of Medicine in 50 Objects
  • Gill Paul
3.333 reads
#113
The Heart Healers: The Misfits, Mavericks, and Rebels Who Created the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of Our Lives
The Heart Healers: The Misfits, Mavericks, and Rebels Who Created the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of Our Lives
  • James S. Forrester
00 reads
#114
The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire
The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire
  • Susan P. Mattern
00 reads
#115
American Zombie Gothic
American Zombie Gothic
  • Kyle William Bishop
00 reads
#116
Of Mice, Men, and Microbes: Hantavirus
Of Mice, Men, and Microbes: Hantavirus
  • David R. Harper
  • Andrea S. Meyer
00 reads
#117
Lyme Disease: The Ecology of a Complex System
Lyme Disease: The Ecology of a Complex System
  • Richard Ostfeld
00 reads
#118
Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe
Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe
  • William Rosen
02 reads
#119
Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
  • Paul Farmer
01 read
#120
Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio
Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio
  • Gareth Williams
00 reads
#121
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
  • Daniel E. Lieberman
4.213 reads
#122
Stuck
Stuck
  • Heidi J. Larson
00 reads
#123
Good germs, bad germs : health and survival in a bacterial world
Good germs, bad germs : health and survival in a bacterial world
  • Jessica Snyder Sachs
00 reads
#124
The Illustrious Dead
The Illustrious Dead
  • Stephan Talty
3.52 reads
#125
Strange Bedfellows
Strange Bedfellows
  • Ina Park
00 reads
#126
The world of caffeine
The world of caffeine
  • Bennett Alan Weinberg
00 reads
#127
The Fever Trail: In Search of the Cure for Malaria
The Fever Trail: In Search of the Cure for Malaria
  • Mark Honigsbaum
00 reads
#128
The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis
The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis
  • Thomas Goetz
3.52 reads
#129
The Vaccine Race
The Vaccine Race
  • Meredith Wadman
52 reads
#130
Mummies, Disease and Ancient Cultures
Mummies, Disease and Ancient Cultures
    00 reads
    #131
    The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Won - And Lost
    The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Won - And Lost
    • Frank Ryan
    00 reads
    #132
    No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States Since 1880
    No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States Since 1880
    • Allan M. Brandt
    00 reads
    #133
    Cholera: The Biography
    Cholera: The Biography
    • Christopher Hamlin
    00 reads
    #134
    The Fate of Rome
    The Fate of Rome
    • Kyle Harper
    4.37 reads
    #135
    Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox
    Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox
    • Gareth Williams
    00 reads
    #136
    Dead men do tell tales
    Dead men do tell tales
    • William R. Maples
    • Michael Browning
    3.58 reads
    #137
    Unwell
    Unwell
    • Mike McRae
    00 reads
    #138
    Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat
    Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat
    • Jeff Benedict
    4.52 reads
    #139
    A Disease Apart: Leprosy in the Modern World
    A Disease Apart: Leprosy in the Modern World
    • Tony Gould
    00 reads
    #140
    The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
    The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
    • Siddhartha Mukherjee
    4.2332 reads
    #141
    Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA
    Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA
    • Maryn McKenna
    41 read
    #142
    Cover 0

    Pox

    Pox: An American History
    • Michael Willrich
    41 read
    #143
    Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World
    Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World
    • Sarah DiGregorio
    41 read
    #144
    An American Plague
    An American Plague
    • Jim Murphy
    3.26 reads
    #145
    The Mind Has No Sex?: Women in the Origins of Modern Science
    The Mind Has No Sex?: Women in the Origins of Modern Science
    • Londa Schiebinger
    00 reads
    #146
    A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks
    A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks
    • Clifford D. Conner
    00 reads
    #147
    Aspirin
    Aspirin
    • Diarmuid Jeffreys
    00 reads
    #148
    The Icepick Surgeon
    The Icepick Surgeon
    • Sam Kean
    3.7532 reads
    #149
    Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770
    Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770
    • Emily Cockayne
    32 reads
    #150
    Charlatan
    Charlatan
    • Pope Brock
    3.256 reads
    #151
    State of the Heart: Exploring the History, Science, and Future of Cardiac Disease
    State of the Heart: Exploring the History, Science, and Future of Cardiac Disease
    • Haider Warraich
    02 reads
    #152
    The Birth of the Pill
    The Birth of the Pill
    • Jonathan Eig
    48 reads
    #153
    Close to the Sun: The Journey of a Pioneer Heart Surgeon
    Close to the Sun: The Journey of a Pioneer Heart Surgeon
    • Stuart Jamieson
    00 reads
    #154
    Cover 0

    The Day of St. Anthony's Fire

    The Day of St. Anthony's Fire
    • John G. Fuller
    00 reads
    #155
    Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
    Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
    • Stephen R. Bown
    42 reads
    #156
    The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle
    The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle
    • Eric Lax
    00 reads
    #157
    Spitting Blood
    Spitting Blood
    • Helen Bynum
    00 reads
    #158
    Anatomies
    Anatomies
    • Hugh Aldersey-Williams
    32 reads
    #159
    Rats, Lice, and History
    Rats, Lice, and History
    • Hans Zinsser
    00 reads
    #160
    Cover 6

    Crying

    Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears
    • Tom Lutz
    00 reads
    #161
    The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
    The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
    • Dick Teresi
    51 read
    #162
    The Doctor Who Fooled the World
    The Doctor Who Fooled the World
    • Brian Deer
    4.884 reads
    #163
    If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine
    If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine
    • Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
    3.52 reads
    #164
    American Sirens
    American Sirens
    • Kevin Hazzard
    51 read
    #165
    The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
    The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
    • Charles Kenny
    3.255 reads
    #166
    The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
    The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
    • Thomas Hager
    4.5512 reads
    #167
    How We Got to Now
    How We Got to Now
    • Steven Johnson
    3.8327 reads
    #168
    Searching Eyes
    Searching Eyes
    • Amy L. Fairchild
    • Ronald Bayer
    • James Colgrove
    • Daniel Wolfe
    00 reads
    #169
    Lead Wars
    Lead Wars
    • Gerald E. Markowitz
    • David Rosner
    00 reads
    #170
    Cranioklepty
    Cranioklepty
    • Colin Dickey
    00 reads
    #171
    Cover 0

    How Sex Changed

    How Sex Changed
    • Joanne J. Meyerowitz
    51 read
    #172
    Cover 2

    The Plutonium Files

    The Plutonium Files
    • Eileen Welsome
    00 reads
    #173
    Witches, Midwives, and Nurses
    Witches, Midwives, and Nurses
    • Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Deirdre English
    3.9215 reads
    #174
    Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
    Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
    • Lydia Kang
    • Nate Pedersen
    3.531 reads
    #175
    Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography
    Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography
    • Rebecca M. Jordan-Young
    • Katrina Karkazis
    01 read
    #176
    Doubting sex: Inscriptions, bodies and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories
    Doubting sex: Inscriptions, bodies and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories
    • Geertje Mak
    00 reads
    #177
    Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
    Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
    • Deirdre Cooper Owens
    00 reads
    #178
    The Doctors Blackwell
    The Doctors Blackwell
    • Janice P. Nimura
    36 reads
    #179
    For Her Own Good
    For Her Own Good
    • Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Deirdre English
    01 read
    #180
    Cover 6

    Under the Knife

    Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations
    • Arnold van de Laar
    44 reads
    #181
    The Royal Art of Poison
    The Royal Art of Poison
    • Eleanor Herman
    413 reads
    #182
    Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
    Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
    • Lisa Sanders
    4.53 reads
    #183
    American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History
    American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History
    • Jenell Johnson
    00 reads
    #184
    Cover 8

    Hearing Happiness

    Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History
    • Jaipreet Virdi
    00 reads
    #185
    The Sleeping Beauties
    The Sleeping Beauties
    • Suzanne O'Sullivan
    3.676 reads
    #186
    A History of Delusions
    A History of Delusions
    • Victoria Shepherd
    3.52 reads
    #187
    Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
    Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
    • Ira Rutkow
    3.754 reads
    #188
    The Lady and Her Monsters
    The Lady and Her Monsters
    • Roseanne Montillo
    2.754 reads
    #189
    Lactivism
    Lactivism
    • Courtney Jung
    51 read
    #190
    Cover 1

    Contraception

    Contraception: A Concise History
    • Donna J. Drucker
    00 reads
    #191
    More Than Medicine: A History of the Feminist Women's Health Movement
    More Than Medicine: A History of the Feminist Women's Health Movement
    • Jennifer Nelson
    00 reads
    #192
    Cover 2

    The politics of vaccination

    The politics of vaccination: A global history
      00 reads
      #193
      Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
      Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
      • Amy Stewart
      3.5537 reads
      #194
      The Sublime Engine
      The Sublime Engine
      • Stephen Amidon
      51 read
      #195
      The Source of All Things: A Heart Surgeon's Quest to Understand Our Most Mysterious Organ
      The Source of All Things: A Heart Surgeon's Quest to Understand Our Most Mysterious Organ
      • Reinhard Friedl
      31 read
      #196
      Search and Rescue: A Wilderness Doctor's Life-and-Death Tales of Risk and Reward
      Search and Rescue: A Wilderness Doctor's Life-and-Death Tales of Risk and Reward
      • Christopher Van Tilburg
      00 reads
      #197
      Cover 0

      The Chemical Age

      The Chemical Age: How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth
      • Frank von Hippel
      53 reads
      #198
      Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep
      Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep
      • Kenneth Miller
      41 read
      #199
      Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race
      Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race
      • Ellen Samuels
      00 reads
      #200
      Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
      Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
      • Uché Blackstock
      4.55 reads
      #201
      Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
      Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
      • Richard Hollingham
      3.86 reads