Medical and Psychiatric Scandals
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Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
by:
Hannah Barnes
4.37 avg rating — 1,197 ratings 4. 
Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
by:
John Abramson
4.21 avg rating — 1,268 ratings 5. 
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
by:
Ben Goldacre
4.10 avg rating — 9,121 ratings 6. 
The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield's War on Vaccines
by:
Brian Deer
4.03 avg rating — 1,476 ratings 
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Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
by:
Naomi Oreskes
4.17 avg rating — 7,789 ratings 9. 
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Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest to Manipulate Height
by:
Susan Cohen
3.82 avg rating — 62 ratings 11. 
For the Good of Mankind?: The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation 3.72 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
by:
Candice Millard
4.22 avg rating — 81,285 ratings 13. 
Sex Science Self: A Social History of Estrogen, Testosterone, and Identity
by:
Bob Ostertag
3.87 avg rating — 30 ratings 15. 
Lethal But Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health 3.76 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
by:
Abigail Shrier
4.15 avg rating — 13,177 ratings 18. 
Dark Remedy: The Impact of Thalidomide and Its Revival as a Vital Medicine really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 252 ratings
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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 
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The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
by:
Jack El-Hai
3.69 avg rating — 914 ratings 21. 
We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys
by:
Erin Kimmerle
3.86 avg rating — 4,433 ratings 23. 
Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them
by:
Jessica Taylor
3.82 avg rating — 749 ratings 24. 
Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science 3.74 avg rating — 2,176 ratings
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The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers
by:
Scott Carney
3.83 avg rating — 3,436 ratings 26. 
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
by:
John Colapinto
4.04 avg rating — 7,897 ratings 
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Silent Shock: The Men Behind the Thalidomide Scandal and an Australian Family's Long Road to Justice 4.32 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Bodily Harm: Symphysiotomy and Pubiotomy in Ireland 1944-92
by:
Marie O'Connor
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health and What We Can Do About It 4.10 avg rating — 697 ratings
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Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
by:
Maya Dusenbery
4.17 avg rating — 2,917 ratings 35. 
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present 4.43 avg rating — 9,667 ratings
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Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
by:
James Davies
4.23 avg rating — 2,010 ratings 37. 
Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good
by:
James Davies
4.09 avg rating — 1,277 ratings 38. 
The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception
by:
Debora L. Spar
3.67 avg rating — 113 ratings 39. 
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
by:
Andrew Scull
4.09 avg rating — 401 ratings 40. 
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
by:
Robert Whitaker
4.16 avg rating — 4,384 ratings 41. 
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by:
John Carreyrou
4.41 avg rating — 276,401 ratings 42. 
Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop
by:
Anna Lembke
4.01 avg rating — 1,318 ratings 43. 
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The Devil's Playbook: Big Tobacco, Juul, and the Addiction of a New Generation
by:
Lauren Etter
4.15 avg rating — 521 ratings 45. 
Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines: The Truth Behind a Tragedy 3.62 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Antidepressed: A Breakthrough Examination of Epidemic Antidepressant Harm and Dependence
by:
Beverley Thomson
4.40 avg rating — 42 ratings 
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Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
by:
Adam Cohen
3.77 avg rating — 2,592 ratings 51. 
Born in the Right Body: Gender Identity Ideology From a Medical and Feminist Perspective
by:
Isidora Sanger
4.54 avg rating — 56 ratings 52. 
White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine
by:
Carl Elliott
3.85 avg rating — 561 ratings 53. 
Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, And Sexual Hysteria
by:
Richard Ofshe
4.11 avg rating — 66 ratings 54. 
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
by:
Anne Harrington
4.15 avg rating — 998 ratings 
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The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
by:
Carl Elliott
3.90 avg rating — 386 ratings 59. 
Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's
by:
Charles Piller
3.97 avg rating — 409 ratings 
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Meadow's Law: The true story of Kathleen Folbigg and the science that set her free 4.15 avg rating — 151 ratings