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American Overdose

American Overdose
ByChris McGreal

2018 • 9 Readers • 336 pages 4

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition

1987 • 123 Readers • 666 pages 4.3

Awakenings

Awakenings
ByOliver Sacks

75 Readers 4.2

Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens

2020 • 5 Readers • 320 pages 4

Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague

2019 • 11 Readers • 304 pages 4

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

2008 • 204 Readers • 327 pages 3.9

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

2012 • 289 Readers • 288 pages 4.1

Breathless

Breathless
ByDavid Quammen

2022 • 24 Readers 4.6

Buzzed: The Straight Facts about the Most Used & Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy

1998 • 7 Readers • 385 pages 4

Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal

2015 • 18 Readers • 304 pages 4.4

Crisis in the Red Zone

Crisis in the Red Zone
ByRichard Preston

2019 • 32 Readers • 375 pages 4.4

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2001 • 5 Readers

Death in Mud Lick

2020 • 3 Readers • 8h 7m 3

Dopesick

Dopesick
ByBeth Macy

2018 • 144 Readers • 384 pages 4

Five Days at Memorial

2013 • 98 Readers • 546 pages 4.1

Get Well Soon

Get Well Soon
ByJennifer Wright

2017 • 80 Readers • 336 pages 4.2

Gory Details

Gory Details
ByErika Engelhaupt

2021 • 61 Readers • 304 pages 4.3

Grunt

Grunt
ByMary Roach

2016 • 141 Readers • 285 pages 3.8

Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive

2021 • 149 Readers • 462 pages 4.6

Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues

1999 • 10 Readers • 424 pages 3

Insane

Insane
ByAlisa Roth

2018 • 14 Readers • 320 pages 3.8

Is It All in Your Head?

Is It All in Your Head?
BySuzanne O'Sullivan

2015 • 2 Readers

Kill Shot: A Shadow Industry, a Deadly Disease

2021 • 10 Readers 5

Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine

2017 • 5 Readers • 370 pages 4.5

Mystery of the Exploding Teeth And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

2018 • 15 Readers • 400 pages 3.5

My Stroke of Insight

My Stroke of Insight
ByJill Bolte Taylor

2006 • 6 Readers • 206 pages 3.5

Neurotribes

Neurotribes
BySteve Silberman

2015 • 123 Readers • 400 pages 4.3

Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood

2018 • 35 Readers • 368 pages 3.7

Nodding Off

Nodding Off
ByAlice Gregory

2018 • 5 Readers • 304 pages

Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine

2004 • 4 Readers • 356 pages 4

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

2023 • 136 Readers • 304 pages 3.9

Patient H.M

Patient H.M
ByLuke Dittrich

2016 • 5 Readers • 440 pages 4.5

Rabid

Rabid
ByBill Wasik,Monica Murphy

2012 • 65 Readers • 275 pages 3.5

Radiation

Radiation
ByRobert Peter Gale

3 Readers 3.5

Raising Lazarus

Raising Lazarus
ByBeth Macy

2022 • 12 Readers • 400 pages 3

Rough Sleepers

Rough Sleepers
ByTracy Kidder

2023 • 29 Readers • 320 pages 4

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Slime
ByRuth Kassinger

2019 • 10 Readers • 320 pages 5

Spillover: Animal Infection and the Human Pandemic

2012 • 83 Readers • 587 pages 4.4

Spook

Spook
ByMary Roach

2005 • 123 Readers • 7 pages 3.6

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

2003 • 620 Readers • 303 pages 3.9

Strange Medicine

Strange Medicine
ByNathan Belofsky

2013 • 3 Readers • 213 pages 4

Survival of the Sickest

Survival of the Sickest
BySharon Moalem,Jonathan Prince

2007 • 14 Readers • 267 pages 3.8

Ten Drugs

Ten Drugs
ByThomas Hager

2019 • 20 Readers • 320 pages 3.9

The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History

2006 • 27 Readers • 400 pages 3.6

The Cruelest Miles

The Cruelest Miles
ByGay Salisbury,Laney Salisbury

2003 • 14 Readers • 320 pages 3.5

The Doctors Blackwell

The Doctors Blackwell
ByJanice P. Nimura

2021 • 47 Readers • 336 pages 3

The Drug Hunters

The Drug Hunters
ByDonald R. Kirsch,Ogi Ogas

2017 • 9 Readers • 328 pages 3.5

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

2010 • 422 Readers • 571 pages 4.2

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London

2006 • 218 Readers • 299 pages 3.9

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

2004 • 145 Readers • 609 pages 3.8

The Guarded Gate

The Guarded Gate
ByDaniel Okrent

2019 • 17 Readers • 496 pages 4

The Hot Zone

The Hot Zone
ByRichard Preston

1994 • 212 Readers • 448 pages 4.1

The Invention of Surgery

The Invention of Surgery
ByDavid Schneider

2020 • 6 Readers • 384 pages 3.5

The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

2018 • 15 Readers • 235 pages 4.5

The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women

2023 • 19 Readers • 208 pages 3.8

The Least of Us

The Least of Us
BySam Quinones

2021 • 22 Readers • 433 pages 4.5

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

2021 • 139 Readers • 320 pages 4.2

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

2016 • 464 Readers • 404 pages 4.2

The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

2018 • 33 Readers • 544 pages 4.2

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

2022 • 156 Readers • 496 pages 4.3

The Spiral Notebook

The Spiral Notebook
ByStephen Singular,Joyce Singular

2015 • 3 Readers • 304 pages 2.5

The Vaccine Race

The Vaccine Race
ByMeredith Wadman

2017 • 11 Readers • 436 pages 5

The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's

2008 • 8 Readers • 339 pages 3

Uncaring: How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Patients

2021 • 4 Readers • 320 pages

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2014 • 14 Readers 4

Unwell Women

Unwell Women
ByElinor Cleghorn

2021 • 70 Readers • 400 pages 4.1

Venomous

Venomous
ByChristie Wilcox

2016 • 14 Readers • 256 pages 3.3

When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

2019 • 12 Readers • 339 pages 3

When Doctors Don't Listen

2013 • 2 Readers • 334 pages 3