Best Books with a Medical Setting.
198. 
The Cause of Death: True Stories of Death and Murder From a New Zealand Pathologist 4.22 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
204. 
En Route: A Paramedic's Stories of Life, Death, and Everything in Between 3.92 avg rating — 937 ratings
204. 
In The Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History
by:
Kathryn Black
4.10 avg rating — 58 ratings 204. 
210. 
To the Rescue: Stories from Healthcare Workers at the Scenes of Disasters 3.52 avg rating — 91 ratings
214. 
Pictures of the Mind: What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Who We Are 3.76 avg rating — 892 ratings
214. 
Rats, Lice, and History: A Chronicle of Pestilence and Plagues
by:
Hans Zinsser
4.02 avg rating — 566 ratings 214. 
Bedpan Commando: The Story of a Combat Nurse During World War II
by:
June Wandrey
4.34 avg rating — 344 ratings 217. 
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
by:
Katrina Firlik
3.79 avg rating — 3,914 ratings 
220. 
220. 
The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
by:
Theresa Brown
3.88 avg rating — 7,740 ratings 222. 
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
by:
Sally M. Walker
3.95 avg rating — 1,326 ratings 222. 
Dancing At The River's Edge: A Patient and her Doctor Negotiate a Life of Chronic Illness
by:
Alida Brill
4.02 avg rating — 53 ratings 222. 
The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son
by:
Ian Brown
3.89 avg rating — 1,904 ratings 
226. 
Written in Bones: How Human Remains Unlock the Secrets of the Dead
by:
Paul G. Bahn
3.98 avg rating — 365 ratings 226. 
In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom
by:
Qanta A. Ahmed
3.74 avg rating — 7,780 ratings 226. 
Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific 4.19 avg rating — 634 ratings
229. 
In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics 3.57 avg rating — 111 ratings
232. 
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by:
Matt Ridley
4.06 avg rating — 27,645 ratings 
232. 
G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 43 ratings
237. 
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
by:
Louise Aronson
3.96 avg rating — 1,921 ratings 
238. 
241. 
The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
by:
Jerome Groopman
4.02 avg rating — 2,103 ratings 241. 
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
by:
Thomas Morris
3.79 avg rating — 4,482 ratings 
244. 
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
by:
Damon Tweedy
4.18 avg rating — 5,390 ratings 
248. 
Second Opinions: Eight Clinical Dramas of Decision Making on the Front Lines of Medicine
by:
Jerome Groopman
3.93 avg rating — 301 ratings 
251. 
In the Country of Hearts: Journeys in the Art of Medicine
by:
John Stone
4.06 avg rating — 34 ratings 
254. 
Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
by:
Mark Pendergrast
3.70 avg rating — 497 ratings 
257. 
Medical Museums: Past, Present, Future
by:
Michael G. Rhode
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings 
260. 
260. 
Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: Diagnosing the Medical Groans and Last Gasps of Ten Great Writers
by:
John J. Ross
3.76 avg rating — 435 ratings 
264. 
The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire
by:
Susan P. Mattern
3.82 avg rating — 179 ratings 264. 
Behind the Murder Curtain: Special Agent Bruce Sackman Hunts Doctors and Nurses Who Kill Our Veterans
by:
Bruce Sackman
3.78 avg rating — 96 ratings 267. 
The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle
by:
Eric Lax
3.98 avg rating — 507 ratings 267. 
Medicine Women: A Pictoral History of Women Healers
by:
Elisabeth Brooke
3.76 avg rating — 82 ratings 
270. 
270. 
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
by:
Paul A. Offit
4.18 avg rating — 1,384 ratings 
274. 
Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School
by:
Melvin Konner
3.83 avg rating — 697 ratings 278. 
Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It
by:
Julie M. Fenster
3.68 avg rating — 297 ratings 278. 
Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle (The Country Nurse #1)
by:
Mary J. MacLeod
3.95 avg rating — 9,143 ratings 
283. 
Bleed, Blister, Puke and Purge: The Dirty Secrets Behind Early American Medicine
by:
J.M. Younker
3.72 avg rating — 176 ratings 
285. 
Immunity: How Elie Metchnikoff Changed the Course of Modern Medicine
by:
Luba Vikhanski
3.94 avg rating — 50 ratings 
288. 
A Thousand Naked Strangers: a Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
by:
Kevin Hazzard
3.95 avg rating — 13,681 ratings 
291. 
Waiting for Peace: The Journals & Correspondence of a World War II Medic 4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
295. 
The New York Times Book of Medicine: More than 150 Years of Reporting on the Evolution of Medicine
by:
Gina Kolata
3.92 avg rating — 36 ratings 295. 
297. 
Bedside Manners: One Doctor's Reflections on the Oddly Intimate Encounters Between Patient and Healer
by:
David Watts
3.69 avg rating — 291 ratings 297. 
Marketplace of the Marvelous: The Strange Origins of Modern Medicine
by:
Erika Janik
3.60 avg rating — 120 ratings 297. 
The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital 3.74 avg rating — 3,864 ratings
