Medical Science Books
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 797,074 ratings — published 2010
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.41 — 789,818 ratings — published 2016
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.49 — 214,904 ratings — published 2014
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 237,758 ratings — published 2003
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 112,988 ratings — published 2010
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 120,709 ratings — published 1994
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.28 — 52,105 ratings — published 2002
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 243,584 ratings — published 1985
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 55,035 ratings — published 2016
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 14 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 324,763 ratings — published 2017
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 55,837 ratings — published 2006
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,335 ratings — published 2004
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 97,722 ratings — published 2019
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 235,856 ratings — published 2012
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 27,323 ratings — published 2014
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 269,100 ratings — published 2014
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 36,906 ratings — published 2007
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,737 ratings — published 2022
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 143,125 ratings — published 2020
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 47,321 ratings — published 2018
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 22,217 ratings — published 2017
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 222,150 ratings — published 2017
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 31,206 ratings — published 2016
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 42,291 ratings — published 2014
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 23,609 ratings — published 1995
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,698 ratings — published 2006
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.54 — 132,230 ratings — published 2021
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.41 — 279,532 ratings — published 2018
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 112,582 ratings — published 2020
The House of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 27,974 ratings — published 1978
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 182,077 ratings — published 2016
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,484 ratings — published 2005
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 51,220 ratings — published 2013
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 10,717 ratings — published 1994
Hallucinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 25,070 ratings — published 2012
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.38 — 30,899 ratings — published 2017
All That Remains: A Life in Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 15,327 ratings — published 2018
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 54,946 ratings — published 2014
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 11,593 ratings — published 1996
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,744 ratings — published 2017
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,892 ratings — published 2017
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 40,403 ratings — published 2013
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.72 — 11,768 ratings — published 2012
The Double Helix (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 19,906 ratings — published 1968
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.42 — 20,287 ratings — published 2012
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 59,968 ratings — published 2008
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 88,479 ratings — published 1997
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.38 — 144,598 ratings — published 2025
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 91,744 ratings — published 2023
Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,071 ratings — published 2021
“Body cannot survive in the vacuum of space,
Mind cannot survive in the vacuum of time.
Brain cannot survive in the vacuum of skull,
So it floats about in the fluid of spine.”
― Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
Mind cannot survive in the vacuum of time.
Brain cannot survive in the vacuum of skull,
So it floats about in the fluid of spine.”
― Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“Sickness acknowledged is sickness half treated.”
― Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability
― Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability


