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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 801,497 ratings
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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4.16 avg rating — 121,192 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 56,106 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 113,836 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,506 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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4.39 avg rating — 29,227 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.01 avg rating — 37,087 ratings
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
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3.91 avg rating — 6,718 ratings
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
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3.89 avg rating — 11,592 ratings
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The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
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4.07 avg rating — 4,205 ratings
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Plagues and Peoples
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3.87 avg rating — 4,991 ratings
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The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story
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4.15 avg rating — 18,043 ratings
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Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
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4.19 avg rating — 78,710 ratings
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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3.72 avg rating — 11,945 ratings
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Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
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3.65 avg rating — 2,610 ratings
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Typhoid Mary
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3.70 avg rating — 5,518 ratings
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Pox: An American History
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3.68 avg rating — 868 ratings
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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4.20 avg rating — 88,923 ratings
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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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4.25 avg rating — 13,727 ratings
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Hippocratic Writings
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3.60 avg rating — 371 ratings
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
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4.23 avg rating — 13,991 ratings
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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4.30 avg rating — 22,494 ratings
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Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries
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3.83 avg rating — 1,889 ratings
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
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3.93 avg rating — 40,765 ratings
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Dragon's Blood & Willow Bark: The Mysteries of Medieval Medicine
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4.18 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
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3.89 avg rating — 731 ratings
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Microbe Hunters
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4.14 avg rating — 4,453 ratings
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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
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4.10 avg rating — 5,873 ratings
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 8,116 ratings
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The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
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3.83 avg rating — 427 ratings
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Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease
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3.97 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Polio: An American Story
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4.05 avg rating — 5,976 ratings
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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
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3.80 avg rating — 1,830 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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4.22 avg rating — 10,739 ratings
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William Osler: A Life in Medicine
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4.33 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
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4.02 avg rating — 6,821 ratings
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Louis Pasteur
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3.88 avg rating — 57 ratings
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As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
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4.04 avg rating — 8,007 ratings
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
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4.43 avg rating — 10,004 ratings
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Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic
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4.18 avg rating — 120 ratings
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The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
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4.08 avg rating — 605 ratings
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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
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4.04 avg rating — 854 ratings
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Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
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3.91 avg rating — 7,652 ratings
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The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
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4.42 avg rating — 186 ratings
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The Century of the Surgeon
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4.46 avg rating — 3,540 ratings
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Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery
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4.37 avg rating — 175 ratings
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The House Of Wisdom
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3.87 avg rating — 1,080 ratings
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The Family that Couldn't Sleep
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3.92 avg rating — 6,463 ratings
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The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
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3.83 avg rating — 1,109 ratings
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The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
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4.02 avg rating — 1,549 ratings
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Ghetto Medic: A Father in the 'Hood
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3.55 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Obsessive Genius
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4.06 avg rating — 3,175 ratings
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Germ Theory: Medical Pioneers in Infectious Diseases
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4.54 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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4.35 avg rating — 55,497 ratings
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Out of My Life and Thought
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3.96 avg rating — 485 ratings
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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4.28 avg rating — 17,771 ratings
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The Colony: The Harrowing True Story Of The Exiles Of Molokai
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3.81 avg rating — 2,306 ratings
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The Eradication of Smallpox: Edward Jenner and The First and Only Eradication of a Human Infectious Disease
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3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Warfare
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3.98 avg rating — 1,704 ratings
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The Medical Book: From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeons, 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine
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4.08 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and The Haunted Men Who Made It
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3.67 avg rating — 307 ratings
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The Doctor Wore Petticoats: Women Physicians of the Old West
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3.68 avg rating — 440 ratings
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An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine
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3.98 avg rating — 964 ratings
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The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
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4.18 avg rating — 3,652 ratings
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The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
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4.07 avg rating — 5,796 ratings
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Disease & History
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3.72 avg rating — 340 ratings
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Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
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4.01 avg rating — 8,348 ratings
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Viruses, Plagues, and History
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3.89 avg rating — 1,302 ratings
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The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes
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3.66 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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4.42 avg rating — 20,409 ratings
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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
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3.40 avg rating — 5,442 ratings
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Heart: A History
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4.09 avg rating — 3,526 ratings
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Crucial Interventions: An Illustrated Treatise on the Principles & Practice of Nineteenth-Century Surgery
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4.39 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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4.23 avg rating — 84,270 ratings
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America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918
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3.86 avg rating — 620 ratings
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The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth
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3.95 avg rating — 2,575 ratings
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Green Pharmacy: The History and Evolution of Western Herbal Medicine
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4.25 avg rating — 153 ratings
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American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
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4.03 avg rating — 1,222 ratings
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Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines
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3.80 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Fever Season: The Story of a Terrifying Epidemic and the People Who Saved a City
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3.72 avg rating — 215 ratings
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The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
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3.87 avg rating — 5,327 ratings
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The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire
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3.81 avg rating — 187 ratings
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The Book of Man: The Human Genome Project and the Quest to Discover Our Genetic Heritage
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3.77 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: Diagnosing the Medical Groans and Last Gasps of Ten Great Writers
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3.76 avg rating — 439 ratings
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Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
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3.67 avg rating — 1,477 ratings
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The Inheritor's Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science
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3.21 avg rating — 870 ratings
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Women Under the Knife: A History of Surgery
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3.68 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Talking to Your Doctor: A Patient's Guide to Communication in the Exam Room and Beyond
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3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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A Commotion in the Blood: Life, Death, and the Immune System
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4.25 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Snake Oil is Alive & Well "The Clash between Myths and Reality: Reflections of a Physcian"
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4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story
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3.98 avg rating — 5,161 ratings
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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
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4.23 avg rating — 6,945 ratings
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Spanish Influenza: The Story of the Epidemic That Swept America From the Newspaper Reports of 1918
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3.44 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Chloroform: The Quest for Oblivion
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3.79 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons
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4.20 avg rating — 131 ratings
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In The Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History
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4.12 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man and Society
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3.95 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure
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3.93 avg rating — 811 ratings
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Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
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3.82 avg rating — 1,967 ratings
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants
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4.31 avg rating — 98,804 ratings
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