Modern Medical Science (nonfiction)
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The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic
by:
Joe Miller
4.24 avg rating — 864 ratings 90. 
The Source of All Things: A Heart Surgeon's Quest to Understand Our Most Mysterious Organ
by:
Reinhard Friedl
3.71 avg rating — 91 ratings 
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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 90. 
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Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
by:
Timothy Pachirat
4.31 avg rating — 517 ratings 108. 
Creating a Forest Garden: Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops
by:
Martin Crawford
4.44 avg rating — 426 ratings 108. 
Combat Doctor: Life and Death Stories from Kandahar’s Military Hospital
by:
Marc Dauphin
4.25 avg rating — 135 ratings 
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Medical Museums: Past, Present, Future
by:
Michael G. Rhode
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings 
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State of the Heart: Exploring the History, Science, and Future of Cardiac Disease
by:
Haider Warraich
4.13 avg rating — 240 ratings 
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Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
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Giulia Enders
4.08 avg rating — 53,726 ratings 
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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 119. 
In My Hands: Compelling Stories from a Surgeon and His Patients Fighting Cancer
by:
Steven A. Curley
4.35 avg rating — 467 ratings 119. 
Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
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Mark Pendergrast
3.70 avg rating — 497 ratings 119. 
Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions 3.95 avg rating — 804 ratings
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating — 30,339 ratings 
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How the Body Works: A Comprehensive Illustrated Encychlopeida of Anatomy 4.47 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School
by:
Melvin Konner
3.83 avg rating — 697 ratings 
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Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy
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Samantha King
3.75 avg rating — 166 ratings 134. 
Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: Diagnosing the Medical Groans and Last Gasps of Ten Great Writers
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John J. Ross
3.76 avg rating — 435 ratings 134. 
Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death
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Adrian Owen
4.26 avg rating — 2,003 ratings 134. 
The Cause of Death: True Stories of Death and Murder From a New Zealand Pathologist 4.22 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
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He Wanted the Moon: The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. Perry Baird, and His Daughter's Quest to Know Him
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Mimi Baird
3.86 avg rating — 1,357 ratings 138. 
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The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy
by:
Andrea Dunlop
4.15 avg rating — 4,489 ratings 142. 
The Heart Healers: The Misfits, Mavericks, and Rebels Who Created the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of Our Lives 4.44 avg rating — 352 ratings
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Unnatural Selection: How We Are Changing Life, Gene by Gene
by:
Emily Monosson
3.84 avg rating — 94 ratings 142. 
The Lucky Egg: Understanding Your Fertility and How to Get Pregnant Now
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Lucky Sekhon
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 145. 
Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World 4.06 avg rating — 1,367 ratings
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Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America 3.70 avg rating — 143 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by:
Randy Shilts
4.39 avg rating — 28,863 ratings 
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Infectious Diabetes : A Cutting-Edge Approach to Stopping One of America's Fastest Growing Epidemics in Its Tracks
by:
Doug A. Kaufmann
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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Decoding Anorexia: How Breakthroughs in Science Offer Hope for Eating Disorders
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Carrie Arnold
4.50 avg rating — 189 ratings 155. 
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Don't Eat This If You're Taking That: The Hidden Risks of Mixing Food and Medicine 3.51 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water
by:
Maude Barlow
3.90 avg rating — 327 ratings 157. 
Diary of a MAD Lupus Patient: Shortness of Breath
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J.H. Johnson
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 157. 
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Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries 3.82 avg rating — 1,874 ratings
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Diagnosis: Lupus: The Intimate Journal of a Lupus Patient really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life
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Haider Warraich
3.93 avg rating — 684 ratings 161. 
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
by:
Edith Sheffer
3.81 avg rating — 1,855 ratings 165. 
Sleep Paralysis: Night-mares, Nocebos, and the Mind-Body Connection
by:
Shelley R. Adler
3.92 avg rating — 138 ratings 165. 
Lupus Handbook for Women: Up-to-Date Information on Understanding and Managing the Disease Which Affects
by:
Robin Dibner
3.88 avg rating — 42 ratings 165. 
Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
by:
Donald R. Kirsch
4.26 avg rating — 1,201 ratings 168. 
Lupus: Alternative Therapies That Work
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Sharon Moore
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 39 ratings 168. 
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
by:
Jon Ronson
3.95 avg rating — 155,565 ratings 
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The Age of Genomes: Tales from the Front Lines of Genetic Medicine
by:
Steven M. Lipkin
3.73 avg rating — 91 ratings 
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One Doctor: Close Calls, Cold Cases and the Mystery of Medicine
by:
Brendan Reilly
4.17 avg rating — 1,953 ratings 
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The Great Bird Flu Hoax: The Truth They Don't Want You to Know About the "Next Big Pandemic"
by:
Joseph Mercola
3.58 avg rating — 40 ratings 177. 
The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery
by:
George Johnson
3.67 avg rating — 1,023 ratings 180. 
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
by:
Paul A. Offit
4.18 avg rating — 1,384 ratings 182. 
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Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine
by:
Paul A. Offit
4.10 avg rating — 3,075 ratings 184. 
Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver
by:
Arthur Allen
3.81 avg rating — 289 ratings 185. 
The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of the World's Food Supply 4.18 avg rating — 1,094 ratings
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In the Country of Hearts: Journeys in the Art of Medicine
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John Stone
4.06 avg rating — 34 ratings 188. 
Eating Dangerously: Why the Government Can't Keep Your Food Safe ... and How You Can
by:
Michael Booth
3.25 avg rating — 161 ratings 188. 
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Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life
by:
Paul Ekman
4.03 avg rating — 7,590 ratings 190. 
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Integrative Medicine: The Return of the Soul to Healthcare
by:
Bonnie McLean
4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings 193. 
The E.I. Syndrome: An Rx for Environmental Illness
by:
Sherry A. Rogers
4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings 
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Nutrient Power: Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain
by:
William J. Walsh
4.09 avg rating — 684 ratings 195. 
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
by:
Victoria Sweet
4.11 avg rating — 5,837 ratings 
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Healing Children: A Surgeon's Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine
by:
Kurt Newman
4.17 avg rating — 572 ratings 