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Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
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Other Minds
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Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop
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3.86 avg rating — 2,291 ratings
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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4.17 avg rating — 31,494 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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The Queen of Hearts
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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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When Breath Becomes Air
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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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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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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The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
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Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
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The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
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Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
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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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Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
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3.72 avg rating — 5,902 ratings
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Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
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4.11 avg rating — 10,334 ratings
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The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
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4.12 avg rating — 1,047 ratings
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
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When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
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Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
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Bad Medicine: Catching New York's Deadliest Pill Pusher
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Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
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Obedience to Authority
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4.20 avg rating — 4,550 ratings
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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4.21 avg rating — 175,805 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
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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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Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients
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The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships
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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
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Rats, Lice, and History: A Chronicle of Pestilence and Plagues
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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Duty of Care: One NHS Doctor's Story of the COVID-19 Crisis
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Seven Signs of Life: Stories from an Intensive Care Doctor
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The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story
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The Dark Side: Real Life Accounts of an NHS Paramedic
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Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist
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The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist
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All the Living and the Dead
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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
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4.29 avg rating — 14,958 ratings
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This Is Your Mind on Plants
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
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A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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The Facemaker
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4.28 avg rating — 7,889 ratings
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The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion
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4.33 avg rating — 9,121 ratings
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Dragon's Blood & Willow Bark: The Mysteries of Medieval Medicine
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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
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4.10 avg rating — 5,870 ratings
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Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
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4.02 avg rating — 6,808 ratings
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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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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
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Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
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3.93 avg rating — 899 ratings
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
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Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
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4.29 avg rating — 495 ratings
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Close to the Sun: The Journey of a Pioneer Heart Surgeon
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4.29 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The Killers Within: The Deadly Rise Of Drug-Resistant Bacteria
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A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics: A Neuroscientist on How to Make Sense of a Complex World
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The Map of Heaven: A neurosurgeon explores the mysteries of the afterlife and the truth about what lies beyond
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And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
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Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
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The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science (TED Books)
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4.07 avg rating — 5,179 ratings
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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4.28 avg rating — 52,318 ratings
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The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year
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The House of God
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Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
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4.19 avg rating — 2,846 ratings
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Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
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3.96 avg rating — 8,879 ratings
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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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 — 2,484 ratings
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Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World
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3.70 avg rating — 529 ratings
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The Empire of Depression: A New History
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3.96 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World
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The Heart Healers: The Misfits, Mavericks, and Rebels Who Created the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of Our Lives
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4.45 avg rating — 354 ratings
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State of the Heart: Exploring the History, Science, and Future of Cardiac Disease
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4.13 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
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4.26 avg rating — 1,239 ratings
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The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
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Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
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Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
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Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
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