History of Medicine
101. 
Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver
by:
Arthur Allen
3.81 avg rating — 289 ratings 102. 
Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory 3.76 avg rating — 2,119 ratings
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The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
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Meredith Wadman
3.96 avg rating — 1,031 ratings 104. 
Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific 4.19 avg rating — 634 ratings
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Bleed, Blister, Puke and Purge: The Dirty Secrets Behind Early American Medicine
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J.M. Younker
3.72 avg rating — 176 ratings 106. 
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
by:
Thomas Morris
3.79 avg rating — 4,483 ratings 107. 
The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration
by:
Richard Barnett
4.42 avg rating — 1,002 ratings 
109. 
Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
by:
Thea Cooper
4.15 avg rating — 1,004 ratings 110. 
Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
by:
James R. Doty
4.22 avg rating — 25,783 ratings 111. 
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
by:
Susan Sontag
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,370 ratings 112. 
Photographic Atlas of Civil War Injuries: Photographs of Surgical Cases and Specimens, Otis Historical Archives
by:
Julian E. Kuz
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings 112. 
The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Won - And Lost
by:
Frank Ryan
4.11 avg rating — 98 ratings 
115. 
Women Healers of the World: The Traditions, History, and Geography of Herbal Medicine
by:
Holly Bellebuono
4.12 avg rating — 89 ratings 116. 
Pain and Its Transformations: The Interface of Biology and Culture
by:
Sarah Coakley
4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings 117. 
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
by:
Richard Kluger
3.93 avg rating — 291 ratings 118. 
Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works
by:
Jonathan Gruber
3.79 avg rating — 462 ratings 119. 
What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
by:
Danielle Ofri
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,007 ratings 120. 
I've Seen the End of You: A Neurosurgeon's Look at Faith, Doubt, and the Things We Think We Know
by:
W. Lee Warren
4.47 avg rating — 1,795 ratings 
123. 
Remembrance of Patients Past: Life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870-1940 (Canadian Social History Series)
by:
Geoffrey Reaume
4.32 avg rating — 28 ratings 
126. 
128. 
For the Good of Mankind?: The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation 3.72 avg rating — 196 ratings
129. 
Good Blood Bad Blood: Science, Nature, and the Myth of the Kallikaks
by:
J. David Smith
4.15 avg rating — 39 ratings 
129. 
The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination
by:
Julie Anderson
4.11 avg rating — 46 ratings 129. 
State of Immunity: The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth-Century America (Volume 16)
by:
James Colgrove
4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings 129. 
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Essentials of Death Reporting and Death Certification: Practical Applications for the Clinical Practitioner it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
129. 
Through the Darkness: Glimpses into the History of Western Medicine 3.65 avg rating — 23 ratings
129. 
Dark Remedy: The Impact of Thalidomide and Its Revival as a Vital Medicine really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 252 ratings
129. 
Close to the Sun: The Journey of a Pioneer Heart Surgeon
by:
Stuart Jamieson
4.29 avg rating — 77 ratings 129. 
Inside the Hot Zone: A Soldier on the Front Lines of Biological Warfare 4.30 avg rating — 91 ratings
129. 
New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and its Alternatives
by:
Alex de Waal
3.85 avg rating — 34 ratings 129. 
The Trotula: An English Translation of the Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine (The Middle Ages Series)
by:
Monica H. Green
4.12 avg rating — 146 ratings 129. 
Sex Science Self: A Social History of Estrogen, Testosterone, and Identity
by:
Bob Ostertag
3.87 avg rating — 30 ratings 129. 
Frontier Fever: The Silly, Superstitious-And Sometimes Sensible-Medicine of the Pioneers 3.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
129. 
Unclean Hands: From a Discovery That Would Forever Change Medicine to an Insane Asylum
by:
Andrew Schafer
4.10 avg rating — 80 ratings 
129. 
129. 
Leonardo's Brain: Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius
by:
Leonard Shlain
3.70 avg rating — 638 ratings 129. 
Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts
by:
Helen King
3.97 avg rating — 62 ratings 157. 
Story of Medicine: From Early Healing to the Miracles of Modern Medicine
by:
Anne Rooney
3.96 avg rating — 77 ratings 
157. 
157. 
National Museum of Health & Medicine Guide to the Collections 2009
by:
Michael G. Rhode
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 157. 
Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
by:
William Rosen
4.08 avg rating — 360 ratings 157. 
157. 
Vestimenta Larga y Vestimenta Corta, Barberos-cirujanos, nodrizas y parteras como educadores 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
170. 
The Secret Life of Dr. James Barry: Victorian England's Most Eminent Surgeon
by:
Rachel Holmes
3.62 avg rating — 120 ratings 170. 
Rearticulations of Orthopaedic Surgery: The Process of Specialty Boundary Formation and the Provision of Fracture Care
by:
Kenneth Gundle
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 170. 
Anatomy of Robert Knox: Murder, Mad Science and Medical Regulation in Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh
by:
A.W. Bates
3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings 170. 
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 170. 
Disease: The Story of Disease and Mankind's Continuing Struggle Against It
by:
Mary Dobson
4.13 avg rating — 449 ratings 170. 
170. 
The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine
by:
Justin McElroy
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,804 ratings 
170. 
170. 
Suffer and Survive: The Extreme Life of J.S. Haldane
by:
Martin Goodman
4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings 
184. 
In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics 3.57 avg rating — 111 ratings
184. 
People, Parasites, and Plowshares: Learning from Our Body's Most Terrifying Invaders 4.02 avg rating — 64 ratings
184. 
Theories for Everything: An Illustrated History of Science
by:
John Langone
4.18 avg rating — 148 ratings 184. 
Paper bodies: A catalogue of anatomical fugitive sheets, 1538-1687
by:
Andrea Carlino
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 184. 
The Invention of Surgery: A History of Modern Medicine: From the Renaissance to the Implant Revolution
by:
David Schneider
3.78 avg rating — 430 ratings 184. 
Plague: The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World's Most Dangerous Disease
by:
Wendy Orent
3.69 avg rating — 140 ratings 184. 
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The Heart Healers: The Misfits, Mavericks, and Rebels Who Created the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of Our Lives 4.44 avg rating — 352 ratings
195. 
Franciscans and the Elixir of Life: Religion and Science in the Later Middle Ages (The Middle Ages Series)
by:
Zachary A. Matus
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 195. 
Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
by:
Lisa Sanders
4.01 avg rating — 4,118 ratings 195. 
From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era
by:
Edward Shorter
3.88 avg rating — 52 ratings