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The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease
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4.05 avg rating — 3,230 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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4.39 avg rating — 29,334 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,655 ratings
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Ghost Map
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3.89 avg rating — 56,383 ratings
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The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria, Medicine and the Cure that Changed the World
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3.86 avg rating — 296 ratings
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Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic
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4.29 avg rating — 497 ratings
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Under the Big Tree: Extraordinary Stories from the Movement to End Neglected Tropical Diseases
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4.30 avg rating — 60 ratings
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The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
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4.03 avg rating — 1,358 ratings
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Breaking Through: My Life in Science
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4.64 avg rating — 2,650 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 — 6,993 ratings
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Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity
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4.05 avg rating — 84 ratings
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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
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4.29 avg rating — 15,235 ratings
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The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
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4.13 avg rating — 3,126 ratings
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Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
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4.42 avg rating — 7,862 ratings
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The Hot Zone
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4.16 avg rating — 121,703 ratings
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Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti
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4.10 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy: A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry
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3.97 avg rating — 91 ratings
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In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army
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4.29 avg rating — 293 ratings
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The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
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3.87 avg rating — 7,358 ratings
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Pain Killer: A Wonder Drug's Trail of Addiction and Death
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4.02 avg rating — 2,966 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 55,050 ratings
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
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4.48 avg rating — 23,886 ratings
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
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3.92 avg rating — 56,340 ratings
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
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4.23 avg rating — 32,305 ratings
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
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3.91 avg rating — 6,737 ratings
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The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
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4.12 avg rating — 1,536 ratings
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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
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4.03 avg rating — 1,289 ratings
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Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish
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3.81 avg rating — 442 ratings
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How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
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3.76 avg rating — 2,191 ratings
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Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
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4.31 avg rating — 16,223 ratings
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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4.54 avg rating — 136,712 ratings
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If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America
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4.18 avg rating — 645 ratings
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Death in Custody: How America Ignores the Truth and What We Can Do about It
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4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
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4.09 avg rating — 4,698 ratings
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Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America
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4.47 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Blue Spaces: How and Why Water Makes Us Feel Better
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3.75 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity
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4.10 avg rating — 747 ratings
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Brooklyn Bridge Park: A Dying Waterfront Transformed
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
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3.82 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Connecting the Drops: A Citizens' Guide to Protecting Water Resources
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
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4.02 avg rating — 50,690 ratings
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The Joy of Forest Bathing: Reconnect With Wild Places & Rejuvenate Your Life (Volume 4) (Live Well, 4)
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3.71 avg rating — 334 ratings
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Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life
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3.86 avg rating — 577 ratings
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Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty
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3.87 avg rating — 370 ratings
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Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations
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4.14 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Hoping to Help: The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering
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3.95 avg rating — 61 ratings
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When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
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4.34 avg rating — 6,442 ratings
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Healthy Joints for Life: An Orthopedic Surgeon's Proven Plan to Reduce Pain and Inflammation, Avoid Surgery and Get Moving Again
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3.78 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Age to Perfection: How to Thrive to 100, Happy, Healthy, and Wise
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2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
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4.37 avg rating — 1,434 ratings
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
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4.01 avg rating — 32,895 ratings
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Say Anarcha
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3.81 avg rating — 436 ratings
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Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
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3.92 avg rating — 65,122 ratings
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American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body’s Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life
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4.02 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Joe Public Doesn't Care About Your Hospital
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3.79 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
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4.44 avg rating — 3,201 ratings
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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4.49 avg rating — 218,308 ratings
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Dreamland Burning
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4.19 avg rating — 12,812 ratings
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Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
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4.26 avg rating — 41,535 ratings
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The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
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4.38 avg rating — 3,406 ratings
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Over the Influence: The Harm Reduction Guide for Managing Drugs and Alcohol
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4.14 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
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4.32 avg rating — 97,513 ratings
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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
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4.29 avg rating — 15,235 ratings
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Poverty, by America
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4.27 avg rating — 61,956 ratings
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Talking Health: A New Way to Communicate about Public Health
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3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 114,587 ratings
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
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4.07 avg rating — 45,699 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 — 10,075 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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4.47 avg rating — 114,198 ratings
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Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness
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3.97 avg rating — 3,727 ratings
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American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry
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4.10 avg rating — 879 ratings
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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
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4.70 avg rating — 19,358 ratings
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If You Can't Quit Cryin' You Can't Come Here No More: A Family's Legacy of Poverty, Crime and Mental Illness in Rural America
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4.15 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West
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4.17 avg rating — 76 ratings
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