History of Medicine
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
by:
Richard Preston
4.16 avg rating — 119,586 ratings 3. 
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating — 55,252 ratings 
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by:
John M. Barry
3.98 avg rating — 42,021 ratings 6. 
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
by:
Deborah Blum
4.01 avg rating — 36,512 ratings 7. 
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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Randy Shilts
4.39 avg rating — 28,863 ratings 8. 
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History 3.91 avg rating — 6,647 ratings
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
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John Kelly
3.89 avg rating — 11,193 ratings 10. 
The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
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Wendy Moore
4.07 avg rating — 4,148 ratings 
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Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
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Jennifer Worth
4.19 avg rating — 77,380 ratings 14. 
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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Bill Wasik
3.72 avg rating — 11,395 ratings 15. 
Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
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Holly Tucker
3.65 avg rating — 2,595 ratings 
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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Anne Fadiman
4.20 avg rating — 87,602 ratings 19. 
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
by:
Sam Kean
4.26 avg rating — 13,464 ratings 
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
by:
Jennifer Wright
4.23 avg rating — 13,612 ratings 22. 
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine 4.31 avg rating — 21,437 ratings
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Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries 3.82 avg rating — 1,874 ratings
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Dragon's Blood & Willow Bark: The Mysteries of Medieval Medicine
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Toni Mount
4.19 avg rating — 157 ratings 25. 
Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
by:
Paul Craddock
3.89 avg rating — 694 ratings 
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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
by:
Thomas Hager
4.09 avg rating — 5,801 ratings 28. 
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
by:
Laura Spinney
3.91 avg rating — 7,931 ratings 29. 
The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics 3.83 avg rating — 418 ratings
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
by:
Sheri Fink
3.93 avg rating — 39,333 ratings 34. 
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by:
Laurie Garrett
4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings 
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present 4.43 avg rating — 9,664 ratings
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Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic
by:
Hillary Johnson
4.16 avg rating — 118 ratings 40. 
The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
by:
Sandra Hempel
4.07 avg rating — 601 ratings 41. 
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
by:
Roy Porter
4.04 avg rating — 842 ratings 42. 
Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
by:
Gina Kolata
3.91 avg rating — 7,614 ratings 43. 
The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
by:
Lina Zeldovich
4.41 avg rating — 159 ratings 
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The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
by:
Marilyn Chase
3.83 avg rating — 1,102 ratings 
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As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
by:
John Colapinto
4.04 avg rating — 7,895 ratings 
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
by:
Steve Silberman
4.29 avg rating — 17,217 ratings 57. 
The Colony: The Harrowing True Story Of The Exiles Of Molokai
by:
John Tayman
3.81 avg rating — 2,293 ratings 58. 
The Eradication of Smallpox: Edward Jenner and The First and Only Eradication of a Human Infectious Disease
by:
Hevre Bazin
3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings 59. 
Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Warfare
by:
Kris Newby
3.98 avg rating — 1,595 ratings 60. 
The Medical Book: From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeons, 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine 4.09 avg rating — 262 ratings
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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 62. 
The Doctor Wore Petticoats: Women Physicians of the Old West
by:
Chris Enss
3.69 avg rating — 433 ratings 63. 
An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine
by:
Howard Markel
3.97 avg rating — 952 ratings 64. 
The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
by:
Gay Salisbury
4.19 avg rating — 3,531 ratings 65. 
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
by:
Seth Mnookin
4.07 avg rating — 5,763 ratings 
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Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine 4.01 avg rating — 8,184 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by:
David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,025 ratings 69. 
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
by:
Norman F. Cantor
3.41 avg rating — 5,388 ratings 
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Crucial Interventions: An Illustrated Treatise on the Principles & Practice of Nineteenth-Century Surgery
by:
Richard Barnett
4.41 avg rating — 256 ratings 74. 
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
by:
Candice Millard
4.22 avg rating — 81,276 ratings 75. 
America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918
by:
Alfred W. Crosby
3.87 avg rating — 615 ratings 76. 
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Green Pharmacy: The History and Evolution of Western Herbal Medicine
by:
Barbara Griggs
4.25 avg rating — 154 ratings 78. 
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
by:
Victoria Johnson
4.03 avg rating — 1,191 ratings 79. 
Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines
by:
Warwick Anderson
3.80 avg rating — 101 ratings 79. 
Fever Season: The Story of a Terrifying Epidemic and the People Who Saved a City
by:
Jeanette Keith
3.73 avg rating — 214 ratings 81. 
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
by:
Douglas Starr
3.86 avg rating — 5,270 ratings 82. 
The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire
by:
Susan P. Mattern
3.82 avg rating — 179 ratings 83. 
The Book of Man: The Human Genome Project and the Quest to Discover Our Genetic Heritage
by:
Walter Bodmer
3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings 84. 
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 
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The Inheritor's Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science
by:
Sandra Hempel
3.20 avg rating — 862 ratings 
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Talking to Your Doctor: A Patient's Guide to Communication in the Exam Room and Beyond
by:
Zackary Berger
3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings 89. 
A Commotion in the Blood: Life, Death, and the Immune System
by:
Stephen S. Hall
4.22 avg rating — 85 ratings 90. 
Snake Oil is Alive & Well "The Clash between Myths and Reality: Reflections of a Physcian"
by:
Morton E. Tavel
4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings 91. 
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital 4.23 avg rating — 6,798 ratings
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Spanish Influenza: The Story of the Epidemic That Swept America From the Newspaper Reports of 1918
by:
Ken Rossignol
3.44 avg rating — 55 ratings 
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Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons
by:
Zara Stone
4.21 avg rating — 127 ratings 96. 
In The Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History
by:
Kathryn Black
4.10 avg rating — 58 ratings 
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Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure
by:
Jim Murphy
3.93 avg rating — 802 ratings 99. 
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
by:
Edith Sheffer
3.81 avg rating — 1,854 ratings 