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Plagues and Peoples
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3.87 avg rating — 4,987 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 — 6,713 ratings
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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
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4.14 avg rating — 9,061 ratings
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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
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3.81 avg rating — 1,828 ratings
"TPWKY Episode 3"
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rated it 2 stars
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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 — 7,650 ratings
"TPWKY Episode 1"
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rated it 4 stars
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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 — 244,887 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 — 10,734 ratings
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Station Eleven
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4.07 avg rating — 608,090 ratings
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The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 244,241 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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The Boy on the Bridge (The Girl With All the Gifts, #2)
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3.96 avg rating — 30,028 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries
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3.83 avg rating — 1,887 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 — 11,571 ratings
"TPWKY Episode 5"
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The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
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3.91 avg rating — 1,517 ratings
"TPWKY Episode 8"
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rated it 3 stars
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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4.42 avg rating — 20,384 ratings
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Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
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4.20 avg rating — 6,018 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
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3.98 avg rating — 2,483 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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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 — 56,037 ratings
"TPWKY Episode 4"
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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4.16 avg rating — 121,069 ratings
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The Cobra Event
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4.02 avg rating — 16,525 ratings
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The Demon in the Freezer
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4.15 avg rating — 18,021 ratings
"TPWKY Episode 3"
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rated it 5 stars
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The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 270,676 ratings
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Blindness
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4.18 avg rating — 335,260 ratings
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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4.02 avg rating — 564,905 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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4.39 avg rating — 29,195 ratings
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Outbreak (Dr. Marissa Blumenthal, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 57,595 ratings
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Fever 1793
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3.93 avg rating — 132,677 ratings
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The Plague
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4.02 avg rating — 312,000 ratings
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I Am Legend
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4.05 avg rating — 152,016 ratings
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
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4.23 avg rating — 13,967 ratings
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The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
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4.18 avg rating — 3,648 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,465 ratings
"TPWKY Episode 1"
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rated it 4 stars
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Pale Horse, Pale Rider
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3.96 avg rating — 4,904 ratings
"TPWKY Episode 1"
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rated it 4 stars
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
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3.92 avg rating — 8,109 ratings
"TPWKY Episode 1"
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rated it 2 stars
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Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times
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3.89 avg rating — 265 ratings
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The Colony: The Harrowing True Story Of The Exiles Of Molokai
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3.81 avg rating — 2,304 ratings
"TPWKY Episode 2"
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rated it 3 stars
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A Disease Apart: Leprosy in the Modern World
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3.63 avg rating — 46 ratings
"TPWKY Episode 2"
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Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 140,080 ratings
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The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
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4.02 avg rating — 1,549 ratings
"TPWKY Episode 3"
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rated it 4 stars
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Smallpox: The Death of a Disease - The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer
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4.10 avg rating — 373 ratings
"TPWKY Episode 3"
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rated it 4 stars
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The Power of Plagues
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3.95 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Cholera: The Biography
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3.23 avg rating — 30 ratings
"TPWKY Episode 4"
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Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World
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3.92 avg rating — 484 ratings
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The Cambridge World History of Human Disease
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Polio: An American Story
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4.05 avg rating — 5,970 ratings
"TPWKY Episode 7"
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rated it 4 stars
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The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis
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3.88 avg rating — 1,534 ratings
"TPWKY Episode 9"
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rated it 4 stars
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The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis
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3.76 avg rating — 88 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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The Plague and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #2)
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4.20 avg rating — 2,402 ratings
"TPWKY Episode 9"
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rated it 4 stars
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Plague: An Ancient Disease in the Twentieth Century
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3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
"TPWKY Episode 6"
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rated it 4 stars
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The Fever Trail: In Search of the Cure for Malaria
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3.65 avg rating — 101 ratings
"TPWKY Episode 8"
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rated it 2 stars
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The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria
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3.86 avg rating — 130 ratings
"TPWKY Episode 8"
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rated it 4 stars
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Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It
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4.11 avg rating — 2,803 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 — 4,330 ratings
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rated it 5 stars
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Vodou in Haitian Life and Culture: Invisible Powers
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3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie
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4.18 avg rating — 189 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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American Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture
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3.69 avg rating — 147 ratings
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rated it 2 stars
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Of Mice, Men, and Microbes: Hantavirus
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3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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The Family that Couldn't Sleep
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3.93 avg rating — 6,457 ratings
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The Germ of Laziness: Rockefeller Philanthropy and Public Health in the New South
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4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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Zika: The Emerging Epidemic
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3.73 avg rating — 450 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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Lyme Disease: The Ecology of a Complex System
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4.11 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat
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3.93 avg rating — 655 ratings
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rated it 2 stars
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Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
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4.10 avg rating — 1,367 ratings
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China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic
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4.30 avg rating — 381 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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Twenty-First Century Plague: The Story of SARS
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4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
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3.62 avg rating — 1,884 ratings
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rated it 2 stars
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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 — 3,603 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America
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4.17 avg rating — 105 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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Suffer the Children: The Story of Thalidomide
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4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Dark Remedy: The Impact of Thalidomide and Its Revival as a Vital Medicine
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Silent Shock: The Men Behind the Thalidomide Scandal and an Australian Family's Long Road to Justice
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4.32 avg rating — 77 ratings
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rated it 5 stars
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Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs
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4.43 avg rating — 1,093 ratings
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Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History
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3.96 avg rating — 102 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health
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3.91 avg rating — 96 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever: History of a Twentieth Century Disease
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2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The True History of Tea
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3.79 avg rating — 238 ratings
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The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
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4.16 avg rating — 636 ratings
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Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
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4.14 avg rating — 2,525 ratings
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Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
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4.30 avg rating — 493 ratings
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The World of Caffeine
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3.69 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
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4.45 avg rating — 5,215 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 — 9,984 ratings
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Cattle Plague: A History
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir
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4.38 avg rating — 4,488 ratings
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Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
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4.16 avg rating — 3,969 ratings
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rated it 2 stars
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The Down Days
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3.44 avg rating — 1,328 ratings
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The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise Of Drug-Resistant Bacteria
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4.09 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
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4.08 avg rating — 370 ratings
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
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4.40 avg rating — 64,432 ratings
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
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4.37 avg rating — 64,116 ratings
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Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation
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4.23 avg rating — 536 ratings
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Bilharzia: A History of Imperial Tropical Medicine
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3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The 10000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
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3.95 avg rating — 1,850 ratings
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A History of Human Helminthology
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States Since 1880
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3.90 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease
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4.26 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Discovery of Insulin
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4.18 avg rating — 411 ratings
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Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
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4.15 avg rating — 1,032 ratings
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The Kissing Bug
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3.98 avg rating — 1,756 ratings
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Death in a Small Package: A Short History of Anthrax
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3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings
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