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Medicine

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  • 276 Books
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Unwell Women
Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work
Mad, Bad And Sad
The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
Body Respect
Strange Medicine
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Swearing Is Good For You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language
Between XX and XY
Head Case: My Brain and Other Wonders
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The Medicalization of Society

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Deviance and Medicalization

Spare Parts
The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses
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The Science of Sleep

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

Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
In the Kingdom of the Sick
For Her Own Good
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ
Gory Details
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Inclusion

How To Survive A Plague
Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry
The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich
Sweat
Longshot: The Inside Story of the Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine
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The politics of vaccination

Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness
The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women
Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and After Roe V. Wade
American Lobotomy: A Rhetorical History
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London
Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography
Lactivism
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
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Aphantasia

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Mayo Clinic on Digestive Health

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Mountains Beyond Mountains

Coming Home
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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Under the Knife

Making Sense of IBS: A Physician Answers Your Questions about Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Functional and Motility Disorders of the Gastrointestinal Tract: A Case Study Approach
Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses
An Anatomy of Pain
Inequality: A Genetic History
Exercised
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
The Doulas: Radical Care for Pregnant People
Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams
Inflamed
Wintering
Pandemic, Inc.
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
The Lady and Her Monsters
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
An American Plague
Body and Soul
Food Politics
The Doctors Blackwell
The Sleeping Beauties
Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
A Comprehensive Guide to Intersex
A History of the World Through Body Parts
Understanding Body Dysmorphic Disorder: An Essential Guide
Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry: Responses to the Crisis in Mental Health Research
Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920
That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Fatal Invention
Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi: Exploring the Microscopic World in Our Forests, Homes, and Bodies
A History of Delusions
Intersex Matters: Biomedical Embodiment, Gender Regulation, and Transnational Activism
The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Under the Skin
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Hearing Happiness

Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum: Doctors, Patients, and Practices
The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain
Medical Apartheid
Disjointed | Navigating the Diagnosis and Management of hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders
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Food Isn’t Medicine

Get Well Soon
Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens
Living with Dyspraxia: A Guide for Adults with Developmental Dyspraxia - Revised Edition
IBS for dummies
The Happy Bowel: A User-Friendly Guide to Bowel Health for the Whole Family
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