Best Popular Medicine Books on Goodreads
101. 
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
by:
Robert Whitaker
4.16 avg rating — 4,382 ratings 
101. 
The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses
by:
Guy Leschziner
4.04 avg rating — 771 ratings 101. 
Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
by:
Robert H. Lustig
4.18 avg rating — 6,571 ratings 101. 
Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control
by:
Dali L. Yang
4.33 avg rating — 30 ratings 
106. 
Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death
by:
Adrian Owen
4.26 avg rating — 2,001 ratings 108. 
The Intern Blues: The Timeless Classic About the Making of a Doctor
by:
Robert Marion
3.86 avg rating — 1,581 ratings 109. 
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital 4.23 avg rating — 6,798 ratings
110. 
Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum
by:
Gavin Francis
3.90 avg rating — 4,432 ratings 111. 
What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
by:
Danielle Ofri
4.19 avg rating — 2,527 ratings 112. 
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor
by:
Paul Farmer
4.27 avg rating — 4,809 ratings 113. 
Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table
by:
Stephen Westaby
4.36 avg rating — 5,681 ratings 114. 
Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All
by:
Paul A. Offit
4.20 avg rating — 2,244 ratings 
116. 
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
by:
Damon Tweedy
4.18 avg rating — 5,390 ratings 117. 
How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America 4.18 avg rating — 1,988 ratings
119. 
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine
by:
Simon Singh
4.11 avg rating — 4,557 ratings 119. 
122. 
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
by:
Lydia Kang
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,425 ratings 123. 
The Medical Detectives: The Classic Collection of Award-Winning Medical Investigative Reporting
by:
Berton Roueché
4.17 avg rating — 1,423 ratings 124. 
125. 
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
by:
Martin J. Blaser
4.16 avg rating — 3,749 ratings 126. 
The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease
by:
Pamela Nagami
4.05 avg rating — 3,191 ratings 127. 
Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
by:
Holly Tucker
3.65 avg rating — 2,595 ratings 