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Medicine

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The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations
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Bodies and Barriers

Immune
How Doctors Think
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Asleep
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Disease & History

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
The American Plague
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How to play without pain. Your first instrument is your body

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

Pain: A Political History
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Ether Day

Migraine
The brain's way of healing
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
A Taste for Poison
Making Medicine: Surprising Stories from the History of Drug Discovery
Phantom Plague
The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood
Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation
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The Man Who Tasted Words

The Urge
The Exquisite Machine
Duel Without End: Mankind’s Battle with Microbes
Breathless
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
The Viral Underclass
A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine
The Gospel of Wellness
The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine
Bizarre Medicine: Unusual Treatments and Practices through the Ages
Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
Abortion Care as Moral Work: Ethical Considerations of Maternal and Fetal Bodies
Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
World War C: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One
Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What Is Right for You
Blood work a tale of medicine and murder in the scientific revolution
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Blood

Birth
Flow
The Knife Man
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The Man with the Electrified Brain

Shocked
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
The Doctors' Plague
The Secret Life of Dr. James Barry: Victorian England's Most Eminent Surgeon
Breathing for Two
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Human Remains: Episodes in Human Dissection
The Barbary Plague
The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
Heart
The Eradication of Smallpox: Edward Jenner and The First and Only Eradication of a Human Infectious Disease
Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: Diagnosing the Medical Groans and Last Gasps of Ten Great Writers
Blood and Guts
Dragon's Blood & Willow Bark: The Mysteries of Medieval Medicine
Corpse
Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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Dr. Mèutter's marvels

How We Die
Smallpox: The Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer
Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story
Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
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The Woman with a Worm in Her Head

Pandemic
Survival of the Sickest
This Is Your Brain on Parasites
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
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Mosquito

Parasite rex inside the bizarre world of nature's most dangerous creatures
The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA
The Psychopath Test
Remembering: What 50 Years of Research with Famous Amnesia Patient H.M. Can Teach Us about Memory and How it Works
Brain storms
The Man Who Lost his Language: A Case of Aphasia
The Politics of Sleep: Governing (Un)consciousness in the Late Modern Age
Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings
The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases
Tapeworms, Lice, and Prions
The Family that Couldn't Sleep
Ah-Choo!
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The Man Who Touched His Own Heart

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Please Select Your Gender

Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender
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