4.12 avg rating — 409 ratings

"All the Sector General Books, really."

4.35 avg rating — 157,918 ratings

"All right, veterinary work is not what most people mean by 'medical'--but Herriot's works include some people doctoring as well"

3.59 avg rating — 297,921 ratings

"A lot of people forget that Gulliver was a doctor. Not a very good one, even for his time..."

4.04 avg rating — 178,497 ratings

"One of the main characters is a doctor who makes some imprudent social decisions."

3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings

"Starts a bit late, but I think there's a preface that deals with earlier female healers."

3.52 avg rating — 52 ratings

"This is one book where it would really pay to follow up on the bibliography."

3.82 avg rating — 49 ratings

"An account of the 1919/19 influenza pandemic, which killed between 2 and 5 times as many people worldwide than WWI "

4.21 avg rating — 61 ratings

"Lifton is (he's still alive; I just checked) a clinical psychologist. The title is the only time he uses the word 'survivors'--elsewhere he uses 'hibakusha'. While mainly he's concerned with psychological consequences, he also deals with the physical affects of the pika."

4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings

"The hibakusha were mostly not seen by medical professionals immediately. Over 70% of the doctors and 90% of the nurses were killed instantly. The few medical survivors were kept so busy treating burns and removing shards of glass with virtually no equipment for days. This book deals with that period, but it's mostly about studies from later years."

3.96 avg rating — 540 ratings

"Whether Helen would be able to be cured today is doubtful. I live in a city with many deaf-blind people (they come here because there are facilities for them).

But it wasn't until her family consulted Dr Alexander Graham Bell (many people forget that he was very committed to working for the deaf) that they accepted that she had to learn to live as a deaf-blind girl. And it was he who referred them to the Perkins School for The Blind."

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings

"Check here first BEFORE you submit your article for publication. What ARE people most likely to die of? Is it changing? If so, how?"

3.79 avg rating — 182 ratings

"'Max' survives the Holocaust because he is a medical student: but what saves Helen prevents him from reuniting with her."

4.05 avg rating — 40,673 ratings

"Doctor Mengele (the 'Angel of Death' from Auschwitz) is a primary player in this book."

3.91 avg rating — 328 ratings

"What if an experimenter in cloning had been at Parkland General Hospital in 1963?"

3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings

"Terrifying, because too accurate. By a psychiatrist, and often about medical institutions. For the record, anything done BY people TO people IS 'personal': integrity IS a job requirement."

3.71 avg rating — 1,473 ratings

"The development of things like quarantine came from this period."

4.10 avg rating — 194 ratings

"More about missionaries and ethnobotanists, but the shaman is definitely a healer."

3.87 avg rating — 8,591 ratings

"Waldo suffers from myaesthenia gravis. In Magic, Inc, a doctor worries that ALL his child patients are the 'studious' type in an age of broadcast power."

4.06 avg rating — 9,298 ratings

"Lots of doctors are examined in this book, and their sums refigured."

4.06 avg rating — 429 ratings

"Deals with why so many studies test theories on the '60 kilogram man', when very few humans are men massing 60 kilos."

4.10 avg rating — 17,855 ratings

"This whole story turns on a medical conundrum"

4.33 avg rating — 721 ratings

"This contains the medical story The Taste of Aunt Sophronia". Many of Henderson's stories turn around medicine."

4.17 avg rating — 17,104 ratings

"They don't run unless they're being chased."

3.77 avg rating — 26 ratings

"Steller was a doctor, who learned from Siberian shamans how to treat scurvy in the Arctic"

3.96 avg rating — 57 ratings

"Well, the written version, anyway. Armour is more for fun that facts, but his fun depends on knowing the facts."