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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 833,876 ratings — published 2010
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.41 — 860,937 ratings — published 2016
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 250,661 ratings — published 2003
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.49 — 228,507 ratings — published 2014
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 119,218 ratings — published 2010
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.28 — 53,754 ratings — published 2002
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 126,076 ratings — published 1994
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 58,108 ratings — published 2006
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 256,080 ratings — published 1985
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 15 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.39 — 346,699 ratings — published 2017
The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 58,542 ratings — published 2016
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,572 ratings — published 2004
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 105,780 ratings — published 2019
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 244,353 ratings — published 2012
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 155,210 ratings — published 2020
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 29,469 ratings — published 2014
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 314,427 ratings — published 2014
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 311,626 ratings — published 2025
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,745 ratings — published 2022
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.24 — 38,206 ratings — published 2007
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 51,666 ratings — published 2018
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,866 ratings — published 2006
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.53 — 155,276 ratings — published 2021
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 24,379 ratings — published 2017
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 241,213 ratings — published 2017
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,964 ratings — published 2016
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 44,794 ratings — published 2014
An Anthropologist on Mars (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 24,402 ratings — published 1995
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 294,312 ratings — published 2018
The House of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,988 ratings — published 1978
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 200,379 ratings — published 2016
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 12,431 ratings — published 2005
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 53,219 ratings — published 2013
Hallucinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 26,011 ratings — published 2012
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.86 — 61,421 ratings — published 2008
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 105,834 ratings — published 2023
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 124,833 ratings — published 2020
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.53 — 16,092 ratings — published 2019
All That Remains: A Life in Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 17,160 ratings — published 2018
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 58,616 ratings — published 2014
When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 12,269 ratings — published 1996
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 10,633 ratings — published 2017
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.23 — 14,630 ratings — published 2017
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 43,060 ratings — published 2013
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.70 — 13,720 ratings — published 2012
The Double Helix (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,446 ratings — published 1968
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.42 — 21,244 ratings — published 2012
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,813 ratings — published 1994
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as medical-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 91,415 ratings — published 1997
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as medical-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 13,394 ratings — published 2023
“If, as a therapist, teacher, or mentor, you try to fill the holes of early deprivation, you come up against the fact that you are the wrong person, at the wrong time, in the wrong place.”
― The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in The Healing of Trauma
― The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in The Healing of Trauma
“To control disease is called treatment,
To be aware of health is called wellness.”
― Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
To be aware of health is called wellness.”
― Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans


