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#102

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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#103

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

2017 • 5 Readers • 432 pages

#104

Cover 3

2020 • 1 Reader

#105

Immune

2021 • 185 Readers • 368 pages • 4.5

#106

How Doctors Think

2007 • 41 Readers • 307 pages • 3.8

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#107

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

2002 • 103 Readers • 270 pages • 4.1

#108

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

2014 • 105 Readers • 305 pages • 4

#109

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

2017 • 120 Readers • 305 pages • 4.2

#110

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

2011 • 181 Readers • 354 pages • 4.3

#111

Asleep

19 Readers • 3.8

#112

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3 Readers

#113

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

#114

The American Plague

2006 • 5 Readers • 3.5

#115

Cover 2

1 Reader

#116

Playing (Less) Hurt: An Injury Prevention Guide for Musicians

2002 • 2 Readers

#117

Cover 1

1999 • 1 Reader

#118

Pain: A Political History

2014 • 3 Readers • 295 pages

#119

Cover 6

2001 • 2 Readers

#120

Migraine

2019 • 293 pages

#121

The brain's way of healing

2015 • 50 Readers • 409 pages • 4.4

#122

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

2002 • 1 Reader • 419 pages

#123

A Taste for Poison

2021 • 107 Readers • 304 pages • 4.1

#124

Making Medicine: Surprising Stories from the History of Drug Discovery

2022 • 2 Readers • 248 pages

#125

Phantom Plague

2022 • 26 Readers • 320 pages • 3.2

#126

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

2022 • 3 Readers • 368 pages • 2

#127

Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation

2022 • 12 Readers • 5

#128

Cover 7

18 Readers • 3

#129

The Urge

2022 • 21 Readers • 400 pages • 3.3

#130

The Exquisite Machine

2022 • 5 Readers • 234 pages

#131

Duel Without End: Mankind’s Battle with Microbes

2020 • 1 Reader • 633 pages

#132

Breathless

2022 • 27 Readers • 4.4

#133

A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

2017 • 85 Readers • 304 pages • 3.9

#134

The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

2021 • 2 Readers • 320 pages • 2.5

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#135

A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History

2014 • 9 Readers • 249 pages • 4

#136

What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear

2017 • 1 Reader • 242 pages

#137

The Viral Underclass

2022 • 32 Readers • 4.5

#138

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

2022 • 1 Reader • 408 pages

#139

The Gospel of Wellness

2022 • 24 Readers • 352 pages • 3.4

#140

The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine

2022 • 1 Reader • 496 pages

#141

Bizarre Medicine: Unusual Treatments and Practices through the Ages

2022 • 1 Reader • 372 pages

#142

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

2022 • 1 Reader • 192 pages • 3

#143

A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain

2022 • 34 Readers • 214 pages • 3.8

#144

Abortion Care as Moral Work: Ethical Considerations of Maternal and Fetal Bodies

2022 • 1 Reader • 203 pages

#145

Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence

9 Readers

#146

Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

2022 • 1 Reader • 400 pages

#147

World War C: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One

2021 • 3 Readers • 304 pages • 4

#148

Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What Is Right for You

2011 • 1 Reader • 259 pages

#149

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

2011 • 8 Readers • 4

#150

Cover 4

1998 • 10 Readers • 496 pages • 4

#151

Birth

2006 • 9 Readers • 312 pages • 4

#152

Flow

2009 • 26 Readers • 288 pages • 2.3

#153

The Knife Man

2005 • 19 Readers • 342 pages • 4.5

#154

Cover 1

1 Reader

#155

Shocked

2014 • 11 Readers • 272 pages • 3.8

#156

When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

2019 • 15 Readers • 339 pages • 3

#157

The Doctors' Plague

15 Great Discoveries

2003 • 6 Readers • 208 pages • 3

#158

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

2007 • 1 Reader

#159

Breathing for Two

2013 • 1 Reader • 102 pages

#160

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

1989 • 64 Readers • 128 pages • 4.3

#161

Human Remains: Episodes in Human Dissection

2005 • 1 Reader • 220 pages

#162

The Barbary Plague

2003 • 14 Readers • 304 pages • 2

#163

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

2005 • 161 Readers • 435 pages • 3.9

#164

Heart

2018 • 15 Readers • 3.7

#165

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

2000 • 1 Reader • 246 pages

#166

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

2012 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

#167

Blood and Guts

2002 • 5 Readers • 199 pages • 4

#168

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

2015 • 7 Readers • 304 pages • 5

#169

Corpse

2001 • 9 Readers • 286 pages • 2.7

#170

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

2018 • 30 Readers • 4.7

#171

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

2007 • 148 Readers • 427 pages • 4.3

#172

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

2010 • 185 Readers • 319 pages • 4.1

#173

Cover 3

2014 • 39 Readers • 371 pages • 4.2

#174

How We Die

1994 • 59 Readers • 278 pages • 4

#175

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

2009 • 1 Reader • 334 pages

#176

Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites

2013 • 4 Readers • 3

#177

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

1994 • 45 Readers • 768 pages • 4.4

#178

The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story

2002 • 58 Readers • 292 pages • 4.2

#179

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

2007 • 1 Reader

#180

Cover 3

2001

#181

Pandemic

2015 • 25 Readers • 289 pages • 4.2

#182

Survival of the Sickest

2007 • 17 Readers • 267 pages • 3.8

#183

This Is Your Brain on Parasites

2016 • 26 Readers • 272 pages • 3.7

#184

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

31 • 125 Readers • 592 pages • 4.5

#185

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

2010 • 16 Readers • 320 pages • 4

#186

Cover 0

2001 • 2 Readers • 4

#187

Parasite rex inside the bizarre world of nature's most dangerous creatures

2000 • 36 Readers • 298 pages • 4.1

#188

The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA

2022 • 1 Reader • 190 pages

#189

The Psychopath Test

2011 • 148 Readers • 288 pages • 3.8

#190

Remembering: What 50 Years of Research with Famous Amnesia Patient H.M. Can Teach Us about Memory and How it Works

2019 • 1 Reader • 272 pages

#191

Brain storms

4 Readers • 4

#192

The Man Who Lost his Language: A Case of Aphasia

2002 • 1 Reader • 275 pages

#193

The Politics of Sleep: Governing (Un)consciousness in the Late Modern Age

2011 • 2 Readers • 226 pages

#194

Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings

2004 • 7 Readers • 372 pages • 4

#195

The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases

2003 • 1 Reader • 290 pages

#196

Tapeworms, Lice, and Prions

2013 • 2 Readers • 544 pages • 4

#197

The Family that Couldn't Sleep

2006 • 34 Readers • 299 pages • 4.2

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#198

Ah-Choo!

2010 • 1 Reader • 245 pages

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#199

Cover 3

5 Readers • 3

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#200

Cover 4

2010 • 2 Readers

#201

Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

2021 • 3 Readers • 235 pages

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