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The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 803,685 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 — 56,200 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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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,568 ratings
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The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
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4.02 avg rating — 1,550 ratings
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House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public) (Volume 21)
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4.19 avg rating — 428 ratings
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50 Things You Should Know About the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Inside the Hot Zone: A Soldier on the Front Lines of Biological Warfare
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4.30 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Spanish Influenza: The Story of the Epidemic That Swept America From the Newspaper Reports of 1918
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3.44 avg rating — 55 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 — 4,208 ratings
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The Man Who Grew Two Breasts: And Other True Tales of Medical Detection
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3.88 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic
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4.18 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
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3.81 avg rating — 1,830 ratings
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The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
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3.87 avg rating — 316 ratings
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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
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3.97 avg rating — 9,332 ratings
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The Discovery of Insulin
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4.17 avg rating — 414 ratings
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Silent Spring
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4.06 avg rating — 54,837 ratings
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Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time
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3.89 avg rating — 317 ratings
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The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
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3.82 avg rating — 814 ratings
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The People's Republic of Chemicals
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4.09 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 — 6,046 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 — 10,741 ratings
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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
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Sunbathing Naked and Other Miracle Cures
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No Man's Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I
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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
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Combat Surgeons
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Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
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Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History
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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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