Modern Medical Science (nonfiction)
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
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Judy Melinek
4.26 avg rating β 26,521 ratings 7. 
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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David Quammen
4.42 avg rating β 20,024 ratings 8. 
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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Laurie Garrett
4.21 avg rating β 10,688 ratings 9. 
The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases : The Effort Theory of Evolution, Chronic Diseases and Extinction
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Paul Ola
3.70 avg rating β 27 ratings 10. 
The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lostβand Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
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Lina Zeldovich
4.41 avg rating β 159 ratings 11. 
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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Oliver Sacks
4.05 avg rating β 239,814 ratings 12. 
The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
by:
Dick Teresi
3.63 avg rating β 500 ratings 13. 
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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John M. Barry
3.98 avg rating β 42,018 ratings 
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Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
by:
Lisa Sanders
3.95 avg rating β 8,730 ratings 16. 
Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers
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David Perlmutter
3.90 avg rating β 24,268 ratings 
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Food, Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It
by:
Karl Weber
4.17 avg rating β 15,356 ratings 20. 
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 β 7,614 ratings 21. 
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
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Sam Kean
4.26 avg rating β 13,463 ratings 22. 
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Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon 4.29 avg rating β 988 ratings
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After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond
by:
Bruce Greyson
4.19 avg rating β 4,789 ratings 25. 
The Life of Death: The Bare Bones of Undertaking
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Ralph R. Rossell
4.30 avg rating β 92 ratings 26. 
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
by:
Jennifer Wright
4.23 avg rating β 13,612 ratings 27. 
Ebola, Culture and Politics: The Anthropology of an Emerging Disease
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Barry S. Hewlett
3.49 avg rating β 74 ratings 28. 
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The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society 3.58 avg rating β 192 ratings
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
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Laura Spinney
3.91 avg rating β 7,931 ratings 33. 
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
by:
Stephen Grosz
3.94 avg rating β 17,271 ratings 34. 
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
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John Colapinto
4.04 avg rating β 7,894 ratings 35. 
Shocked: Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead
by:
David Casarett
3.56 avg rating β 591 ratings 36. 
Island Practice: Cobblestone Rash, Underground Tom, and Other Adventures of a Nantucket Doctor
by:
Pam Belluck
3.78 avg rating β 699 ratings 
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The Vitamin D Revolution: How the Power of This Amazing Vitamin Can Change Your Life
by:
Soram Khalsa
3.74 avg rating β 189 ratings 
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
by:
Steve Silberman
4.29 avg rating β 17,217 ratings 41. 
Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
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Maya Dusenbery
4.17 avg rating β 2,917 ratings 42. 
This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society 3.98 avg rating β 2,436 ratings
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An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases 4.15 avg rating β 857 ratings
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The Best Home Remedy To Prevent Cold Sores (Lip Blisters) For Life
by:
Beverley Malcolm
3.67 avg rating β 3 ratings 44. 
Germ Theory: Medical Pioneers in Infectious Diseases
by:
Robert Gaynes
4.54 avg rating β 37 ratings 44. 
living with Periodic Paralysis: The Mystery Unraveled it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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What Is Polymyalgia Rheumatica? Have All Your Questions Answered.
by:
Mary Anne March
4.22 avg rating β 72 ratings 
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House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public) (Volume 21)
by:
William H. Foege
4.18 avg rating β 420 ratings 44. 
Mushroom Medicine: The Healing Power of Psilocybin & Sacred Entheogen History
by:
Brian A. Jackson
3.92 avg rating β 36 ratings 44. 
Eat Less, Live Longer: Your Practical Guide to Calorie Restriction with Optimal Nutrition
by:
Anca IoviΕ£Δ
3.67 avg rating β 24 ratings 
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Paradise General: Riding the Surge at a Combat Hospital in Iraq
by:
Dave Hnida
4.22 avg rating β 1,006 ratings 
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Daily Thyroid Routine: 24 Hours To Better Thyroid Health
by:
Jay Author
3.79 avg rating β 33 ratings 44. 
Eleven Blue Men and Other Narratives of Medical Detection
by:
Berton RouechΓ©
4.44 avg rating β 176 ratings 
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Big, Fat American Lion Book: An Active Guide for How to Live a Better Life Being Fat 4.25 avg rating β 8 ratings
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Dr. Fred's Healthcare Rescue: The Real Solution to Healthcare it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Your Patient Safety Survival Guide: How to Protect Yourself and Others from Medical Errors really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 20 ratings
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
by:
Michael Pollan
4.27 avg rating β 82,445 ratings 44. 
The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
by:
Meredith Wadman
3.96 avg rating β 1,031 ratings 44. 
Natural Relief for Anxiety and Stress: A Practical Guide
by:
Gustavo Kinrys
4.05 avg rating β 123 ratings 44. 
The Medical Marijuana Guide: Cannabis and Your Health
by:
Patricia C. Frye
4.23 avg rating β 65 ratings 44. 
Apple Watch ECG: The Ultimate ECG Interpretation's Guide; How to Analyze Apple Watch ECG like a Professional
by:
Philip Knoll
3.67 avg rating β 3 ratings 44. 
Neurology Rounds with the Maverick: Adventures with Patients from the Golden Age of Medicine
by:
Bernard Patten
4.15 avg rating β 106 ratings 44. 
Close to the Sun: The Journey of a Pioneer Heart Surgeon
by:
Stuart Jamieson
4.29 avg rating β 77 ratings 44. 
DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life
by:
Sergio Pistoi
4.09 avg rating β 46 ratings 44. 
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by:
John Carreyrou
4.41 avg rating β 276,378 ratings 44. 
Inside the Hot Zone: A Soldier on the Front Lines of Biological Warfare 4.30 avg rating β 91 ratings
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Covidians & Covidology: Facts, common sense and science you can understand
by:
Yasser Negm
4.50 avg rating β 10 ratings 44. 
The Science of Love and Attraction: The long-hidden neurobiological secrets to improve your social and romantic life 3.57 avg rating β 14 ratings
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Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons
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Zara Stone
4.21 avg rating β 127 ratings 44. 
The 21st Century Man: Advice From 50 Top Doctors and Men's Health Experts so You Can Feel Great, Look Good and Have Better Sex
by:
Judson Brandeis
4.73 avg rating β 15 ratings 44. 
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
by:
Atul Gawande
4.28 avg rating β 51,628 ratings 44. 
Sex Science Self: A Social History of Estrogen, Testosterone, and Identity
by:
Bob Ostertag
3.87 avg rating β 30 ratings 44. 
It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health
by:
Karen Tang
4.18 avg rating β 6,189 ratings 90. 
The Chronic Cough Enigma: Acid Reflux, Asthma, and Recalcitrant Cough - the Path to a Cure 4.17 avg rating β 263 ratings
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The Orange Man and Other Narratives of Medical Detection
by:
Berton RouechΓ©
4.41 avg rating β 32 ratings 90. 
The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands
by:
Eric J. Topol
3.76 avg rating β 1,443 ratings 90. 
Hoping to Help: The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering
by:
Judith N. Lasker
4.04 avg rating β 55 ratings 
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Surgeon's Story: If You Can't Operate in Heels, You Can't Operate!
by:
Mark Oristano
4.50 avg rating β 159 ratings 90. 
For the Good of Mankind?: The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation 3.72 avg rating β 196 ratings
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Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness 3.73 avg rating β 602 ratings
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Hair Transplant Real: Revealing the Illusion
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Michael Petrus
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 3 ratings