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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
The Covenant of Water
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Last Patient of the Night (An AJ Docker Medical Thriller, #1)
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food
More or Less Maddy
The Surgeon
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
When Breath Becomes Air
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
The House of God
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Cutting for Stone
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness by Patrick  HouseManage My Emotions by Kenneth J. MartzThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksGenius Intelligence by James MorcanJust Babies by Paul Bloom
Head Science
156 books — 48 voters
The Physician by Noah GordonThe Alienist by Caleb CarrOutlander by Diana GabaldonThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettCutting for Stone by Abraham   Verghese
Best Historical Medical Fiction
149 books — 124 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeBonk by Mary RoachGulp by Mary Roach
Modern Medical Science (nonfiction)
250 books — 119 voters
Gut by Giulia EndersThe End of Alzheimer's by Dale E. BredesenUndoctored by William  DavisThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaThe Jamange Line by The Conductor
Healthy Aging
404 books — 115 voters


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