Medical Microhistories
3. 
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by:
John M. Barry
3.98 avg rating β 42,022 ratings 
5. 
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by:
Oliver Sacks
4.05 avg rating β 239,834 ratings 6. 
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by:
Anne Fadiman
4.20 avg rating β 87,602 ratings 7. 
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemicβand How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating β 55,255 ratings 
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Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
by:
Holly Tucker
3.65 avg rating β 2,595 ratings 
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History 3.91 avg rating β 6,647 ratings
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The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lostβand Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
by:
Lina Zeldovich
4.41 avg rating β 159 ratings 13. 
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
by:
Deborah Blum
4.01 avg rating β 36,512 ratings 14. 
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
by:
Sam Kean
4.01 avg rating β 10,634 ratings 15. 
The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
by:
Wendy Moore
4.07 avg rating β 4,148 ratings 16. 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating β 445,073 ratings 17. 
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
by:
John Kelly
3.89 avg rating β 11,193 ratings 18. 
Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
by:
Paul Craddock
3.89 avg rating β 694 ratings 
22. 
The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis
by:
Thomas Goetz
3.87 avg rating β 1,493 ratings 
24. 
The Plague and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #2)
by:
Betty MacDonald
4.20 avg rating β 2,362 ratings 25. 
For the Good of Mankind?: The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation 3.72 avg rating β 196 ratings
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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 
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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 31. 
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
by:
Jim Murphy
3.83 avg rating β 4,661 ratings 
31. 
Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research
by:
Alice Wexler
3.75 avg rating β 161 ratings 
34. 
Rats, Lice, and History: A Chronicle of Pestilence and Plagues
by:
Hans Zinsser
4.02 avg rating β 566 ratings 
38. 
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
by:
Bill Wasik
3.72 avg rating β 11,395 ratings 39. 
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Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
by:
Jennifer Block
4.24 avg rating β 2,909 ratings 41. 
The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle
by:
Eric Lax
3.98 avg rating β 507 ratings 42. 
Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
by:
Stephen R. Bown
3.77 avg rating β 1,331 ratings 
43. 
The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
by:
David J. Morris
4.17 avg rating β 905 ratings 45. 
Your Patient Safety Survival Guide: How to Protect Yourself and Others from Medical Errors really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 20 ratings
46. 
Close to the Sun: The Journey of a Pioneer Heart Surgeon
by:
Stuart Jamieson
4.29 avg rating β 77 ratings 47. 
DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life
by:
Sergio Pistoi
4.09 avg rating β 46 ratings 48. 
Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons
by:
Zara Stone
4.21 avg rating β 127 ratings 49. 
51. 
Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works
by:
Jonathan Gruber
3.79 avg rating β 462 ratings 52. 
The Source of All Things: A Heart Surgeon's Quest to Understand Our Most Mysterious Organ
by:
Reinhard Friedl
3.71 avg rating β 91 ratings 53. 
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
by:
Maryanne Wolf
3.85 avg rating β 8,023 ratings 
55. 
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
by:
Candice Millard
4.22 avg rating β 81,280 ratings 56. 
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
by:
Laura Spinney
3.91 avg rating β 7,932 ratings 57. 
The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses
by:
Guy Leschziner
4.04 avg rating β 771 ratings 58. 
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 59. 
Living Well with Autoimmune Disease: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You...That You Need to Know
by:
Mary J. Shomon
3.78 avg rating β 241 ratings 60. 
Autoimmune Diseases and Their Environmental Triggers
by:
Elaine A. Moore
3.50 avg rating β 2 ratings 61. 
The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy
by:
Andrea Dunlop
4.15 avg rating β 4,478 ratings 62. 
The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars: Cheating and Deception in the Living World
by:
Lixing Sun
3.72 avg rating β 183 ratings 63. 
The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society 3.58 avg rating β 192 ratings
63. 
The Healing Paradox: A Revolutionary Approach to Treating and Curing Physical and Mental Illness
by:
Steven Goldsmith
4.33 avg rating β 15 ratings 
63. 
Watch out for Toxo!: The Secret Guide to Practical Science
by:
Jaroslav Flegr
4.07 avg rating β 30 ratings 63. 
Surgeon's Story: If You Can't Operate in Heels, You Can't Operate!
by:
Mark Oristano
4.50 avg rating β 159 ratings 63. 
Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America 3.70 avg rating β 3,827 ratings
63. 
Vaccine Science Revisited: Are Childhood Immunizations As Safe As Claimed? (The Underground Knowledge Series, #8)
by:
James Morcan
3.94 avg rating β 51 ratings 
63. 
A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
by:
Neil Bradbury
4.12 avg rating β 8,908 ratings 63. 
Leonardo's Brain: Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius
by:
Leonard Shlain
3.70 avg rating β 638 ratings 78. 
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
by:
Jonathan Eig
3.98 avg rating β 3,555 ratings 79. 
State of the Heart: Exploring the History, Science, and Future of Cardiac Disease
by:
Haider Warraich
4.13 avg rating β 240 ratings 
81. 
The Sublime Engine: A Biography of the Human Heart
by:
Stephen Amidon
3.76 avg rating β 252 ratings 
82. 
The Nose: A Profile of Sex, Beauty, and Survival
by:
Gabrielle Glaser
3.67 avg rating β 27 ratings 
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Leonardo's Foot: How 10 Toes, 52 Bones, and 66 Muscles Shaped the Human World 2.98 avg rating β 47 ratings
85. 
The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries: The Education of a Doctor 4.30 avg rating β 256 ratings
88. 
Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius
by:
Colin Dickey
3.56 avg rating β 248 ratings 
