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 — 797,138 ratings — published 2010
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.41 — 789,994 ratings — published 2016
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.49 — 214,935 ratings — published 2014
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 237,771 ratings — published 2003
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 112,996 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 — 120,713 ratings — published 1994
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.28 — 52,108 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 — 243,611 ratings — published 1985
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 55,039 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 — 324,816 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 — 55,842 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 — 42,340 ratings — published 2004
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 97,747 ratings — published 2019
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 235,881 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 — 27,329 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 — 269,185 ratings — published 2014
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 36,912 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 — 14,741 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 — 143,150 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 — 47,325 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 — 22,219 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 — 222,193 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 — 31,213 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 — 42,294 ratings — published 2014
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 23,610 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 — 132,250 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 — 279,548 ratings — published 2018
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 112,608 ratings — published 2020
The House of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 27,980 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 — 182,108 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 — 11,487 ratings — published 2005
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 51,219 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 — 10,716 ratings — published 1994
Hallucinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 25,073 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 — 30,910 ratings — published 2017
All That Remains: A Life in Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 15,333 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 — 54,955 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 — 11,595 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 — 9,745 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 — 13,895 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 — 40,408 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 — 11,772 ratings — published 2012
The Double Helix (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 19,909 ratings — published 1968
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.42 — 20,289 ratings — published 2012
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 59,969 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 — 88,485 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 — 144,945 ratings — published 2025
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 91,776 ratings — published 2023
Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,073 ratings — published 2021
“Sickness acknowledged is sickness half treated.”
― Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability
― Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability
“If, as a therapist, teacher, or mentor, you try to fill the holes of early deprivation, you come up against the fact that you are the wrong person, at the wrong time, in the wrong place.”
― The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in The Healing of Trauma
― The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in The Healing of Trauma


