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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 — 14,009 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 — 22,534 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 — 8,355 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 — 37,113 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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4.05 avg rating — 245,579 ratings
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All the Living and the Dead
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4.25 avg rating — 12,387 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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4.41 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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3.93 avg rating — 51,538 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 — 84,416 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 — 13,735 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.33 avg rating — 425,672 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 239,501 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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4.39 avg rating — 29,240 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 — 4,206 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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The Cobra Event
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4.03 avg rating — 16,539 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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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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4.16 avg rating — 121,273 ratings
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
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4.27 avg rating — 27,636 ratings
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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,885 ratings
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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3.72 avg rating — 11,961 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,532 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 — 56,143 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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3.85 avg rating — 60,182 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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4.16 avg rating — 184,623 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 — 88,984 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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4.42 avg rating — 20,427 ratings
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Hallucinations
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3.93 avg rating — 25,216 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 — 10,015 ratings
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God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
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4.11 avg rating — 5,922 ratings
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
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3.95 avg rating — 157,293 ratings
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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
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3.85 avg rating — 5,767 ratings
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Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical
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3.70 avg rating — 5,542 ratings
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Women Healers of the World: The Traditions, History, and Geography of Herbal Medicine
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4.13 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
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4.18 avg rating — 5,177 ratings
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Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America – A YA Historical Biography of Public Health and Human Rights
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3.70 avg rating — 3,882 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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The Heart Healers: The Misfits, Mavericks, and Rebels Who Created the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of Our Lives
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4.45 avg rating — 357 ratings
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
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3.94 avg rating — 20,602 ratings
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Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings
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3.98 avg rating — 717 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 — 7,656 ratings
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Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder
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3.67 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
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3.59 avg rating — 6,042 ratings
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The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency
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4.26 avg rating — 500 ratings
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Rubies in the Sand
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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In the Country of Hearts: Journeys in the Art of Medicine
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4.08 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Close to the Sun: The Journey of a Pioneer Heart Surgeon
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4.29 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Serious as a Heart Attack: A Comedic Memoir about Dropping Dead
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4.06 avg rating — 17 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 — 8,122 ratings
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History of Medicine for the First and Second Year Medical Student
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses
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4.05 avg rating — 815 ratings
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Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
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4.30 avg rating — 1,682 ratings
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The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
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4.17 avg rating — 1,210 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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Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
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3.70 avg rating — 502 ratings
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The Dead Do Talk
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3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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4.19 avg rating — 21,457 ratings
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Medical Museums: Past, Present, Future
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
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3.75 avg rating — 1,842 ratings
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Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health
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3.54 avg rating — 663 ratings
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Ebola
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3.97 avg rating — 1,469 ratings
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Lenin's Embalmers
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3.75 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Polio: An American Story
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4.05 avg rating — 5,977 ratings
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Wounded: The Long Journey Home From the Great War
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4.29 avg rating — 446 ratings
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The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy
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4.14 avg rating — 6,869 ratings
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The New York Times Book of Medicine: More than 150 Years of Reporting on the Evolution of Medicine
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3.92 avg rating — 36 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 — 5,331 ratings
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Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born
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4.05 avg rating — 2,953 ratings
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Pandemic: The Spanish Flu in Australia 1918-20
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story
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3.71 avg rating — 452 ratings
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Breaking Ground: My Life in Medicine
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3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Healing Lives
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4.32 avg rating — 248 ratings
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The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire
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3.81 avg rating — 188 ratings
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A Shot in the Arm!
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4.04 avg rating — 488 ratings
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Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
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3.82 avg rating — 3,361 ratings
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Medicine Women: A Pictoral History of Women Healers
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3.72 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The Hospital by the River
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4.10 avg rating — 2,605 ratings
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The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery
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3.67 avg rating — 1,030 ratings
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Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
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4.19 avg rating — 1,399 ratings
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Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity
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4.58 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
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3.82 avg rating — 4,104 ratings
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Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones: The American Medicine Show
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4.11 avg rating — 76 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 — 1,224 ratings
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The Book of Blood and Shadow
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3.55 avg rating — 5,310 ratings
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The Book of Blood: From Legends and Leeches to Vampires and Veins
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3.65 avg rating — 422 ratings
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Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
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4.08 avg rating — 370 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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Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life
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3.94 avg rating — 694 ratings
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Fever Season
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Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
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4.26 avg rating — 1,245 ratings
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Mercies in Disguise: A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,416 ratings
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Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South
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4.10 avg rating — 140 ratings
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A History of Medicine in 50 Objects
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3.85 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Immunity: How Elie Metchnikoff Changed the Course of Modern Medicine
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3.94 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Malignant Metaphor: Confronting Cancer Myths
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3.68 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Bleed, Blister, Puke and Purge: The Dirty Secrets Behind Early American Medicine
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3.73 avg rating — 176 ratings
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The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics
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3.74 avg rating — 796 ratings
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National Museum of Health & Medicine Guide to the Collections 2009
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Marketplace of the Marvelous: The Strange Origins of Modern Medicine
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3.60 avg rating — 120 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 — 6,953 ratings
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