Popular Science Books Written By Women
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by:
Cathy O'Neil
3.87 avg rating — 29,315 ratings 
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Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure
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Amanda Adams
3.74 avg rating — 207 ratings 
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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 105. 
A Stitch of Time: The Year a Brain Injury Changed My Language and Life
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Lauren Marks
3.82 avg rating — 485 ratings 105. 
The Wisdom Of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels And The Business Of Aids
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Elizabeth Pisani
4.13 avg rating — 3,100 ratings 105. 
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The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
by:
Theresa Brown
3.88 avg rating — 7,742 ratings 
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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
by:
Ellen Ullman
3.85 avg rating — 1,055 ratings 
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Body Brokers: Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains
by:
Annie Cheney
3.82 avg rating — 314 ratings 
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The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital 3.74 avg rating — 3,864 ratings
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
by:
Virginia Eubanks
4.01 avg rating — 2,737 ratings 117. 
All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache
by:
Paula Kamen
3.91 avg rating — 280 ratings 
126. 
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative 3.97 avg rating — 14,021 ratings
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Science and the City: The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis
by:
Laurie Winkless
3.74 avg rating — 293 ratings 126. 
Under the Medical Gaze: Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain
by:
Susan Greenhalgh
3.30 avg rating — 20 ratings 126. 
Adventures of a Female Medical Detective: In Pursuit of Smallpox and AIDS
by:
Mary Guinan
3.79 avg rating — 327 ratings 
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Inside Chronic Pain: An Intimate and Critical Account
by:
Lous Heshusius
4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings 130. 
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
by:
Sonia Shah
4.07 avg rating — 4,009 ratings 
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The Fibromyalgia Story: Medical Authority And Women's Worlds Of Pain 3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Better by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong
by:
Alina Tugend
3.43 avg rating — 246 ratings 140. 
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
by:
Angela Saini
4.05 avg rating — 9,413 ratings 142. 
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
by:
Sherry Turkle
3.62 avg rating — 6,380 ratings 142. 
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
by:
Amy Stewart
3.82 avg rating — 10,913 ratings 144. 
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Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life
by:
Gail Sheehy
3.74 avg rating — 159 ratings 146. 
Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness 3.73 avg rating — 602 ratings
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Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy LaMar, the World's Most Beautiful Woman
by:
Richard Rhodes
3.17 avg rating — 3,305 ratings 150. 
The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer 3.77 avg rating — 5,730 ratings
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution 4.13 avg rating — 6,304 ratings
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The Three-Pound Enigma: The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock Its Mysteries
by:
Shannon Moffett
3.88 avg rating — 146 ratings 152. 
The Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution
by:
Elaine Morgan
4.14 avg rating — 951 ratings 154. 
The Last Best Cure: My Quest to Awaken the Healing Parts of My Brain and Get Back My Body, My Joy, and My Life 4.28 avg rating — 626 ratings
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Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity in Cognition and Culture
by:
Susan A. Gelman
3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings 155. 
Believe Me: My Battle with the Invisible Disability of Lyme Disease
by:
Yolanda Hadid
4.02 avg rating — 1,405 ratings 157. 
An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
by:
Diane Ackerman
3.95 avg rating — 1,240 ratings 158. 
Playing with Infinity: Mathematical Explorations and Excursions
by:
Rózsa Péter
3.65 avg rating — 77 ratings 159. 
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech 4.07 avg rating — 2,513 ratings
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Automating Inequality: How the internet influences racism
by:
Melinda Rose
3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings 161. 
Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
by:
Sharon Moalem
4.14 avg rating — 8,939 ratings 161. 
A Matter of Fact: Talking Truth in a Post-Truth World (BWB Texts Book 67) 4.25 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Meet Your Happy Chemicals: Dopamine, Endorphin, Oxytocin, Serotonin 4.02 avg rating — 5,913 ratings
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With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
by:
Kathryn Mannix
4.57 avg rating — 7,569 ratings 
166. 
The Autoimmune Solution: Prevent and Reverse the Full Spectrum of Inflammatory Symptoms and Diseases
by:
Amy Myers
3.82 avg rating — 2,784 ratings 
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Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration (Transformation Series)
by:
Penney Peirce
3.99 avg rating — 3,128 ratings 169. 
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound
by:
Wendy Moore
3.57 avg rating — 136 ratings 
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In The Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History
by:
Kathryn Black
4.10 avg rating — 58 ratings 
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The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service
by:
Laura Kaplan
4.33 avg rating — 3,399 ratings 176. 
Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling
by:
Linda Greenhouse
3.98 avg rating — 89 ratings