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The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
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The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
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The Discovery of Insulin
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The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
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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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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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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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