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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 818,251 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 244,912 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 43,053 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 116,671 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 — 250,723 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 — 90,239 ratings
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The Ghost Map
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3.89 avg rating — 57,087 ratings
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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3.85 avg rating — 60,855 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 — 2,633 ratings
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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4.09 avg rating — 240,817 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 — 6,787 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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4.38 avg rating — 229 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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4.02 avg rating — 37,806 ratings
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The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
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4.01 avg rating — 11,034 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 — 4,254 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 465,975 ratings
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
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3.88 avg rating — 12,035 ratings
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The Madness Pill: One Doctor's Quest to Understand Schizophrenia
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4.02 avg rating — 120 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 — 765 ratings
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Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
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3.67 avg rating — 1,506 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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3.93 avg rating — 52,445 ratings
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
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4.15 avg rating — 22,921 ratings
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The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis
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3.89 avg rating — 1,580 ratings
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Polio: An American Story
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4.06 avg rating — 6,081 ratings
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The Plague and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #2)
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4.19 avg rating — 2,453 ratings
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For the Good of Mankind?: The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation
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3.72 avg rating — 200 ratings
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The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
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3.64 avg rating — 506 ratings
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Pox: An American History
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3.69 avg rating — 875 ratings
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Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce
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4.06 avg rating — 685 ratings
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Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis
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3.60 avg rating — 249 ratings
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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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4.28 avg rating — 18,233 ratings
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An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
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3.83 avg rating — 4,769 ratings
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Crying: A Natural and Cultural History of Tears
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3.56 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research
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3.76 avg rating — 169 ratings
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On Immunity: An Inoculation
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3.94 avg rating — 12,092 ratings
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Rats, Lice, and History: A Chronicle of Pestilence and Plagues
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 581 ratings
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The Aging Gap Between Species
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4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
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All the Living and the Dead
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4.25 avg rating — 13,006 ratings
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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3.71 avg rating — 13,076 ratings
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A History of the Breast
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3.97 avg rating — 605 ratings
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The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
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3.71 avg rating — 2,553 ratings
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Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
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4.24 avg rating — 2,924 ratings
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The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle
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3.98 avg rating — 531 ratings
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Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
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3.79 avg rating — 1,442 ratings
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Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body
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3.50 avg rating — 713 ratings
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The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
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4.17 avg rating — 925 ratings
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Your Patient Safety Survival Guide: How to Protect Yourself and Others from Medical Errors
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4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Close to the Sun: The Journey of a Pioneer Heart Surgeon
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4.27 avg rating — 91 ratings
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DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life
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4.08 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons
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4.16 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
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3.84 avg rating — 2,661 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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4.35 avg rating — 57,103 ratings
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Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works
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3.80 avg rating — 468 ratings
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The Source of All Things: A Heart Surgeon's Quest to Understand Our Most Mysterious Organ
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3.76 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
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3.85 avg rating — 8,388 ratings
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Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
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4.21 avg rating — 1,491 ratings
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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4.24 avg rating — 87,985 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 — 8,249 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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4.04 avg rating — 880 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 — 7,689 ratings
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Living Well with Autoimmune Disease: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You...That You Need to Know
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3.79 avg rating — 243 ratings
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Autoimmune Diseases and Their Environmental Triggers
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy
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4.13 avg rating — 8,424 ratings
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The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars: Cheating and Deception in the Living World
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3.71 avg rating — 234 ratings
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The Origin of Feces: What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society
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3.59 avg rating — 196 ratings
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The Healing Paradox: A Revolutionary Approach to Treating and Curing Physical and Mental Illness
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4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Day of St. Anthony's Fire
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4.20 avg rating — 158 ratings
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The Dead Do Talk
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Watch out for Toxo!: The Secret Guide to Practical Science
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4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Surgeon's Story: If You Can't Operate in Heels, You Can't Operate!
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4.49 avg rating — 162 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 — 3,956 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 — 3,380 ratings
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The American Way of Birth
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4.03 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story
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3.70 avg rating — 458 ratings
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Vaccine Science Revisited: Are Childhood Immunizations As Safe As Claimed? (The Underground Knowledge Series, #8)
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3.98 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Heart: A History
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4.09 avg rating — 3,630 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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A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
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4.12 avg rating — 9,945 ratings
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Leonardo's Brain: Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius
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3.71 avg rating — 654 ratings
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The Curious History of the Heart: A Cultural and Scientific Journey
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4.12 avg rating — 249 ratings
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Death Ships - the story of life & death on six big emigrant ships
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4.80 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
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3.98 avg rating — 3,637 ratings
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State of the Heart: Exploring the History, Science, and Future of Cardiac Disease
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4.14 avg rating — 255 ratings
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Hunger: An Unnatural History
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3.76 avg rating — 500 ratings
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The Sublime Engine: A Biography of the Human Heart
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3.76 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
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3.81 avg rating — 1,862 ratings
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The Nose: A Profile of Sex, Beauty, and Survival
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3.67 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Skin: A Natural History
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3.84 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born
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4.06 avg rating — 2,976 ratings
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Leonardo's Foot: How 10 Toes, 52 Bones, and 66 Muscles Shaped the Human World
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2.98 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries: The Education of a Doctor
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4.30 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius
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3.57 avg rating — 255 ratings
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Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond
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3.29 avg rating — 246 ratings
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Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug
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4.11 avg rating — 322 ratings
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
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3.45 avg rating — 789 ratings
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A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis
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3.75 avg rating — 1,114 ratings
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Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation
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3.71 avg rating — 1,718 ratings
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The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us
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3.49 avg rating — 897 ratings
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