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On Learning to Heal: or, What Medicine Doesn't Know (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)
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4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 815,766 ratings
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The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics
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4.09 avg rating — 674 ratings
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The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
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4.12 avg rating — 20,627 ratings
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Illness (The Art of Living Series)
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3.94 avg rating — 321 ratings
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
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4.15 avg rating — 22,622 ratings
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
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3.92 avg rating — 32,963 ratings
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,994 ratings
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Not One of These Poems Is About You
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4.10 avg rating — 296 ratings
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The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
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3.89 avg rating — 50,523 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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4.39 avg rating — 29,583 ratings
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Tender Points
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4.49 avg rating — 811 ratings
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On Being Ill
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3.98 avg rating — 3,098 ratings
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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
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4.19 avg rating — 15,961 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 — 10,763 ratings
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I've Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature
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4.14 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
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4.12 avg rating — 1,708 ratings
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
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3.98 avg rating — 78,388 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,944 ratings
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In-Between Days: A Memoir About Living with Cancer
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4.20 avg rating — 768 ratings
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Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic
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4.17 avg rating — 123 ratings
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The Cancer Journals
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4.43 avg rating — 5,641 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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Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
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4.32 avg rating — 492 ratings
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Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
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4.02 avg rating — 16,829 ratings
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All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache
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3.91 avg rating — 285 ratings
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Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
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3.93 avg rating — 2,747 ratings
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Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill
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3.68 avg rating — 191 ratings
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Killing Season: A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic
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4.21 avg rating — 283 ratings
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In the Land of Pain
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3.68 avg rating — 601 ratings
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In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America
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3.49 avg rating — 440 ratings
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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
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3.94 avg rating — 8,862 ratings
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Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand
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3.96 avg rating — 516 ratings
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The Body Broken
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3.55 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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3.71 avg rating — 12,919 ratings
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The Language of Water
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Pain Studies
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3.50 avg rating — 223 ratings
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 54,864 ratings
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Between Gardens: Observations on Gardening,Friendship and Disability
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4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Rowing Without Oars: A Memoir of Living and Dying
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4.03 avg rating — 807 ratings
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Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
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4.03 avg rating — 5,259 ratings
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The Forsaken Garden: Four Conversations on the Deep Meaning of Environmental Illness
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4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine
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4.05 avg rating — 864 ratings
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Close to the Bone: Life Threatening Illness and the Search for Meaning
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4.28 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
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3.99 avg rating — 31,958 ratings
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Survival Lessons
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3.98 avg rating — 4,047 ratings
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Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness
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3.61 avg rating — 2,235 ratings
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Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness – The Inner Life and Leadership of Abraham Lincoln
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3.92 avg rating — 6,721 ratings
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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 — 14,275 ratings
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The Plague
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4.02 avg rating — 322,503 ratings
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The Camera My Mother Gave Me
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3.39 avg rating — 1,466 ratings
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Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression
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4.32 avg rating — 1,533 ratings
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Sick Woman Theory
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4.50 avg rating — 471 ratings
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Monsterhuman (Norwegian Literature)
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3.85 avg rating — 380 ratings
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Cancer Vixen: A True Story
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3.73 avg rating — 1,584 ratings
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The Ghost Map
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3.89 avg rating — 56,962 ratings
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The Body Alone: A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain
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4.67 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography
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3.54 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
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3.81 avg rating — 203 ratings
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The Toxic Labyrinth: A Family's Successful Battle Against Environmental Illness
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Menopause: A Comic Treatment
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3.68 avg rating — 573 ratings
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Giving Up the Ghost
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3.95 avg rating — 5,047 ratings
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Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir
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3.94 avg rating — 2,654 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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4.42 avg rating — 20,748 ratings
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
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3.91 avg rating — 8,229 ratings
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The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe
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3.90 avg rating — 314 ratings
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A Journal of the Plague Year
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3.55 avg rating — 12,020 ratings
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In Pain: A Bioethicist's Personal Struggle with Opioids
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4.18 avg rating — 1,272 ratings
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Hell Ship
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4.13 avg rating — 727 ratings
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The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up
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4.52 avg rating — 7,452 ratings
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The Stockholm Paradigm: Climate Change and Emerging Disease
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women
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3.96 avg rating — 2,507 ratings
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Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic
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3.75 avg rating — 1,803 ratings
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My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
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4.11 avg rating — 3,839 ratings
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How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
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4.44 avg rating — 4,426 ratings
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The Last Man
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3.38 avg rating — 7,118 ratings
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Wait Time: A Memoir of Cancer
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4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Girl in the Dark
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3.52 avg rating — 3,301 ratings
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Freedom Hospital: A Syrian Story
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3.58 avg rating — 518 ratings
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Station Eleven
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4.07 avg rating — 629,424 ratings
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A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain (Sexual Cultures, 8)
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4.03 avg rating — 543 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 — 10,181 ratings
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Green Migraine
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3.83 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers
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4.05 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Emotionally Disturbed: A History of Caring for America's Troubled Children
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4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics – A Cartoonist's Irreverent and Humorous Examination of Breast Cancer Experience
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3.89 avg rating — 634 ratings
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
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4.32 avg rating — 790 ratings
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Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
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3.79 avg rating — 4,871 ratings
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Depression is Fun!
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Canary in the Courtroom: How Pesticide Poisoning Changed a Woman's Life and Forced Her into Civil Action
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat
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3.92 avg rating — 701 ratings
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Lupus Handbook for Women: Up-to-Date Information on Understanding and Managing the Disease Which Affects
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3.88 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life
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4.19 avg rating — 448 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 — 507 ratings
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The Pain Scale
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4.48 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story
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3.72 avg rating — 1,140 ratings
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Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope
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3.80 avg rating — 356 ratings
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Modern Nature
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4.32 avg rating — 1,994 ratings
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Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,135 ratings
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