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#102
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
  • Thomas Morris
3.333 reads
#103
The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations
The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations
  • Thomas Morris
01 read
#104
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Bodies and Barriers

Bodies and Barriers: Queer Activists on Health
    00 reads
    #105
    Immune
    Immune
    • Philipp Dettmer
    4.5556 reads
    #106
    How Doctors Think
    How Doctors Think
    • Jerome Groopman
    3.7725 reads
    #107
    Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
    Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
    • Atul Gawande
    4.1245 reads
    #108
    Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
    Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
    • Henry Marsh
    3.9642 reads
    #109
    The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
    The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
    • Lindsey Fitzharris
    4.2248 reads
    #110
    Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
    Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
    • Candice Millard
    4.3162 reads
    #111
    Asleep
    Asleep
    • Molly Caldwell Crosby
    3.754 reads
    #112
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    Disease & History

    Disease & History: From ancient times to Covid-19
    • Frederick F. Cartwright
    • Michael Biddiss
    00 reads
    #113
    The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
    The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
    • Sam Kean
    4.0229 reads
    #114
    The American Plague
    The American Plague
    • Molly Caldwell Crosby
    3.52 reads
    #115
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    How to play without pain. Your first instrument is your body

    How to play without pain. Your first instrument is your body: Exercises to prevent and treat injuries in musicians
    • Tomas Martin Lopez
    • Charles Davis (Translator)
    00 reads
    #116
    Playing (Less) Hurt: An Injury Prevention Guide for Musicians
    Playing (Less) Hurt: An Injury Prevention Guide for Musicians
    • Janet Horvath
    00 reads
    #117
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    The Athletic Musician

    The Athletic Musician: A Guide to Playing Without Pain
    • Barbara Paull
    • Christine Harrison
    00 reads
    #118
    Pain: A Political History
    Pain: A Political History
    • Keith Wailoo
    00 reads
    #119
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    Ether Day

    Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and The Haunted Men Who Made It
    • Julie M. Fenster
    00 reads
    #120
    Migraine
    Migraine
    • Katherine Foxhall
    00 reads
    #121
    The brain's way of healing
    The brain's way of healing
    • Norman Doidge
    4.429 reads
    #122
    Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
    Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
    • Robert Whitaker
    00 reads
    #123
    A Taste for Poison
    A Taste for Poison
    • Neil Bradbury, Ph.D.
    4.0927 reads
    #124
    Making Medicine: Surprising Stories from the History of Drug Discovery
    Making Medicine: Surprising Stories from the History of Drug Discovery
    • Keith Veronese
    00 reads
    #125
    Phantom Plague
    Phantom Plague
    • Vidya Krishnan
    3.26 reads
    #126
    The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood
    The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood
    • Dhun Sethna
    21 read
    #127
    Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation
    Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation
    • Christopher Kemp
    53 reads
    #128
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    The Man Who Tasted Words

    The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses
    • Guy Leschziner
    33 reads
    #129
    The Urge
    The Urge
    • Carl Erik Fisher
    3.254 reads
    #130
    The Exquisite Machine
    The Exquisite Machine
    • Sian E. Harding
    01 read
    #131
    Duel Without End: Mankind’s Battle with Microbes
    Duel Without End: Mankind’s Battle with Microbes
    • Stig S. Frøland
    00 reads
    #132
    Breathless
    Breathless
    • David Quammen
    4.428 reads
    #133
    A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
    A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
    • Jennifer A. Doudna
    • Samuel H. Sternberg
    3.9423 reads
    #134
    The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
    The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
    • Kathryn Paige Harden
    2.51 read
    #135
    A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
    A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
    • Nicholas Wade
    46 reads
    #136
    What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
    What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
    • Danielle Ofri
    00 reads
    #137
    The Viral Underclass
    The Viral Underclass
    • Steven W. Thrasher
    4.55 reads
    #138
    A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine
    A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine
    • Ralph H. Hruban
    • Will Linder
    00 reads
    #139
    The Gospel of Wellness
    The Gospel of Wellness
    • Rina Raphael
    3.439 reads
    #140
    The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine
    The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine
    • Thomas Helling
    00 reads
    #141
    Bizarre Medicine: Unusual Treatments and Practices through the Ages
    Bizarre Medicine: Unusual Treatments and Practices through the Ages
    • Ruth Clifford Engs
    00 reads
    #142
    Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
    Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
    • Stephen Sagar
    31 read
    #143
    A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
    A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
    • Sara Manning Peskin
    3.837 reads
    #144
    Abortion Care as Moral Work: Ethical Considerations of Maternal and Fetal Bodies
    Abortion Care as Moral Work: Ethical Considerations of Maternal and Fetal Bodies
      00 reads
      #145
      Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence
      Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence
      • Gavin Francis
      02 reads
      #146
      Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
      Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
      • Nick Lane
      00 reads
      #147
      World War C: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One
      World War C: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One
      • Sanjay Gupta
      41 read
      #148
      Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What Is Right for You
      Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What Is Right for You
      • Jerome Groopman
      00 reads
      #149
      Blood work a tale of medicine and murder in the scientific revolution
      Blood work a tale of medicine and murder in the scientific revolution
      • Holly Tucker
      43 reads
      #150
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      Blood

      Blood
      • Douglas Starr
      42 reads
      #151
      Birth
      Birth
      • Tina Cassidy
      41 read
      #152
      Flow
      Flow
      • Elissa Stein
      • Susan Kim
      2.334 reads
      #153
      The Knife Man
      The Knife Man
      • Wendy Moore
      4.54 reads
      #154
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      The Man with the Electrified Brain

      The Man with the Electrified Brain
      • Simon Winchester
      00 reads
      #155
      Shocked
      Shocked
      • David Casarett
      3.754 reads
      #156
      When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
      When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
      • Joshua D. Mezrich
      33 reads
      #157
      The Doctors' Plague
      The Doctors' Plague
      • Sherwin B. Nuland
      31 read
      #158
      The Secret Life of Dr. James Barry: Victorian England's Most Eminent Surgeon
      The Secret Life of Dr. James Barry: Victorian England's Most Eminent Surgeon
      • Rachel Holmes
      00 reads
      #159
      Breathing for Two
      Breathing for Two
      • Wolf Pascoe
      00 reads
      #160
      Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
      Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
      • Susan Sontag
      4.3517 reads
      #161
      Human Remains: Episodes in Human Dissection
      Human Remains: Episodes in Human Dissection
      • Helen MacDonald
      00 reads
      #162
      The Barbary Plague
      The Barbary Plague
      • Marilyn Chase
      21 read
      #163
      The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
      The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
      • John Tayman
      3.9102 reads
      #164
      Heart
      Heart
      • Sandeep Jauhar
      3.674 reads
      #165
      The Eradication of Smallpox: Edward Jenner and The First and Only Eradication of a Human Infectious Disease
      The Eradication of Smallpox: Edward Jenner and The First and Only Eradication of a Human Infectious Disease
      • Hevre Bazin
      00 reads
      #166
      Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: Diagnosing the Medical Groans and Last Gasps of Ten Great Writers
      Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: Diagnosing the Medical Groans and Last Gasps of Ten Great Writers
      • John J. Ross
      00 reads
      #167
      Blood and Guts
      Blood and Guts
      • Roy Porter
      41 read
      #168
      Dragon's Blood & Willow Bark: The Mysteries of Medieval Medicine
      Dragon's Blood & Willow Bark: The Mysteries of Medieval Medicine
      • Toni Mount
      51 read
      #169
      Corpse
      Corpse
      • Jessica Snyder Sachs
      2.672 reads
      #170
      Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
      Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
      • Abby Norman
      4.675 reads
      #171
      The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
      The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
      • Norman Doidge
      4.345 reads
      #172
      The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
      The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
      • Deborah Blum
      4.0655 reads
      #173
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      Dr. Mèutter's marvels

      Dr. Mèutter's marvels : a true tale of intrigue and innovation at the dawn of modern medicine
      • Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
      4.2714 reads
      #174
      How We Die
      How We Die
      • Sherwin B. Nuland
      410 reads
      #175
      Smallpox: The Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer
      Smallpox: The Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer
      • D.A. Henderson
      00 reads
      #176
      Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
      Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
      • Alexandra M. Levitt
      31 read
      #177
      The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
      The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
      • Laurie Garrett
      4.438 reads
      #178
      The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story
      The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story
      • Richard Preston
      4.2325 reads
      #179
      Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
      Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
      • Paul A. Offit
      00 reads
      #180
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      The Woman with a Worm in Her Head

      The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease
      • Pamela Nagami
      00 reads
      #181
      Pandemic
      Pandemic
      • Sonia Shah
      4.217 reads
      #182
      Survival of the Sickest
      Survival of the Sickest
      • Sharon Moalem
      • Jonathan Prince
      3.755 reads
      #183
      This Is Your Brain on Parasites
      This Is Your Brain on Parasites
      • Kathleen McAuliffe
      3.674 reads
      #184
      Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
      Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
      • David Quammen
      4.4639 reads
      #185
      The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
      The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
      • Sonia Shah
      42 reads
      #186
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      Mosquito

      Mosquito: The Story of Man's Deadliest Foe
      • Andrew Spielman
      41 read
      #187
      Parasite rex inside the bizarre world of nature's most dangerous creatures
      Parasite rex inside the bizarre world of nature's most dangerous creatures
      • Carl Zimmer
      4.0914 reads
      #188
      The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA
      The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA
      • David B. Goldstein
      00 reads
      #189
      The Psychopath Test
      The Psychopath Test
      • Jon Ronson
      3.7897 reads
      #190
      Remembering: What 50 Years of Research with Famous Amnesia Patient H.M. Can Teach Us about Memory and How it Works
      Remembering: What 50 Years of Research with Famous Amnesia Patient H.M. Can Teach Us about Memory and How it Works
      • Donald G. MacKay
      00 reads
      #191
      Brain storms
      Brain storms
      • Jon Palfreman
      41 read
      #192
      The Man Who Lost his Language: A Case of Aphasia
      The Man Who Lost his Language: A Case of Aphasia
      • Sheila Hale
      00 reads
      #193
      The Politics of Sleep: Governing (Un)consciousness in the Late Modern Age
      The Politics of Sleep: Governing (Un)consciousness in the Late Modern Age
      • Simon J. Williams
      00 reads
      #194
      Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings
      Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings
      • Pamela Nagami
      44 reads
      #195
      The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases
      The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases
      • Philip Yam
      00 reads
      #196
      Tapeworms, Lice, and Prions
      Tapeworms, Lice, and Prions
      • David Grove
      41 read
      #197
      The Family that Couldn't Sleep
      The Family that Couldn't Sleep
      • Daniel T. Max
      4.1816 reads
      #198
      Ah-Choo!
      Ah-Choo!
      • Jennifer Ackerman
      00 reads
      #199
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      The Man Who Touched His Own Heart

      The Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery
      • Rob Dunn
      31 read
      #200
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      Please Select Your Gender

      Please Select Your Gender
      • Patricia Gherovici
      01 read
      #201
      Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender
      Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender
      • Stef M. Shuster
      00 reads