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The Cobra Event
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The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest
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4.17 avg rating — 1,210 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
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Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born
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Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story
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3.71 avg rating — 452 ratings
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Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical
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3.70 avg rating — 5,561 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 — 3,361 ratings
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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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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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
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Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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4.39 avg rating — 29,250 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 — 56,168 ratings
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The Book of Blood and Shadow
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3.55 avg rating — 5,309 ratings
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The Book of Blood: From Legends and Leeches to Vampires and Veins
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3.65 avg rating — 422 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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Fever Season
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Mercies in Disguise: A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them
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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 — 3,883 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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4.01 avg rating — 37,123 ratings
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Malignant Metaphor: Confronting Cancer Myths
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3.68 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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4.16 avg rating — 184,872 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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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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4.05 avg rating — 245,787 ratings
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Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
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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 — 6,958 ratings
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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4.28 avg rating — 52,398 ratings
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
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4.25 avg rating — 37,152 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 — 89,027 ratings
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Fever! The Hunt for a New Killer Virus
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4.18 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Microbe Hunters
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4.14 avg rating — 4,462 ratings
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Cutting for Stone
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4.33 avg rating — 425,905 ratings
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
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3.94 avg rating — 20,603 ratings
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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
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4.23 avg rating — 13,160 ratings
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In The Shadow of Polio: A Personal and Social History
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4.12 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Case of the Midwife Toad
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3.77 avg rating — 241 ratings
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Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
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4.16 avg rating — 1,038 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 239,631 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 — 4,345 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 — 6,726 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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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
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4.12 avg rating — 15,608 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 — 7,657 ratings
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Bodies Politic : Disease, Death, and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900 (Picturing History Series)
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4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
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When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish: ...and Other Amazing Tales about the Genes in Your Body
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3.49 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder
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3.67 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Pox: An American History
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3.69 avg rating — 872 ratings
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American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
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3.62 avg rating — 261 ratings
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The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency
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4.26 avg rating — 500 ratings
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From Melancholia to Prozac: A History of Depression
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3.57 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Diabetes: The Biography
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3.89 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Hallucinations
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3.93 avg rating — 25,226 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 — 10,822 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 — 56,148 ratings
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Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer, and History
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4.08 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Why We Hurt: The Natural History of Pain
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4.14 avg rating — 278 ratings
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The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination
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4.11 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Medical Book: From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeons, 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine
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4.08 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
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4.31 avg rating — 2,188 ratings
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Ghost Boy: My Miraculous Escape from a Life Locked Inside My Own Body
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4.05 avg rating — 27,817 ratings
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Cancer, Cocaine and Courage: The Story of Dr. William Halsted
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4.37 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Walk on Water: The Miracle of Saving Children's Lives
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4.13 avg rating — 1,474 ratings
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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
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4.07 avg rating — 4,049 ratings
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
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3.93 avg rating — 40,842 ratings
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God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
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4.11 avg rating — 5,928 ratings
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Pox: Genius, Madness, And The Mysteries Of Syphilis
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3.76 avg rating — 445 ratings
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Rats, Lice and History
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4.01 avg rating — 574 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 — 4,207 ratings
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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
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4.13 avg rating — 1,352 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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3.89 avg rating — 11,618 ratings
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