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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted AmericaBeth Macy201920 pts1 wins4 listsLittle, BrownMedicine & Public HealthMedicine, Health & the Body+2
Ashes to Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip MorrisRichard Kluger199720 pts1 wins4 listsKnopfHistoryPublic Health Systems+2
Entangled LifeMerlin Sheldrake202014 pts2 wins2 listsRandom House Trade PaperbacksScienceMedicine, Health & the Body+3
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural HistoryFlorence Williams201210 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonScienceScience & Discovery+2
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic GeniusSylvia Nasar201110 pts1 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterBusiness & EconomicsTechnology, Computing & Ai+2
Stumbling on HappinessDaniel Gilbert200610 pts1 wins1 listsKnopf CanadaScienceMedicine, Health & the Body+2
Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of RegulationPhilip J. Hilts200310 pts1 wins1 listsKnopfMedicine & Public HealthPublic Health Systems+2
Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and CommerceDouglas Starr199810 pts1 wins1 listsKnopfMedicine & Public HealthPublic Health Systems+2
Plague's ProgressArno Karlen199610 pts1 wins1 listsPhoenixMedicine & Public HealthMedicine, Health & the Body+2
Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk VaccineJane S. Smith199010 pts1 wins1 listsAnchorMedicine & Public HealthPublic Health Systems+2
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain SurgeryHenry Marsh201410 pts1 wins4 listsWeidenfeld & NicolsonMedicine & Public HealthDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human BodyNeil Shubin20088 pts1 wins2 listsPantheonScienceMedicine, Health & the Body+3
Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden AgeHarold J. Cook20078 pts1 wins2 listsYale University PressHistoryDisease, Epidemics & Drugs+2
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public HealthLaurie Garrett20008 pts1 wins2 listsUnknown imprintMedicine & Public HealthDisease, Epidemics & Drugs+2
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human PandemicDavid Quammen20128 pts0 wins2 listsW. W. NortonSciencePublic Health Systems+2
Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise HealthcareAnnabel Sowemimo20236 pts0 wins2 listsProfile BooksRace & EthnicityPublic Health Systems+1
Spike: The Virus vs. The People – the Inside StoryJeremy Farrar, Anjana Ahuja20226 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintMedicine & Public HealthMedicine, Health & the Body+2
The World as We Know It: From Natural Philosophy to Modern SciencePeter Dear20254 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryMedicine, Health & the Body+3
Waves of Hope: Personal Stories of ECTGeorge Kirov20254 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressMedicine & Public HealthMental Health & Psychology+3
OOut of Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women's Mental Health and What Must ChangeLinda Gask20244 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressMedicine & Public HealthGender & Feminism+3
Blight: Fungi and the Coming PandemicEmily Monosson20234 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonScienceNatural History & Animals+3
Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from ContagionRichard Conniff20234 pts1 wins1 listsMIT PressMedicine & Public HealthScience & Discovery+3
Promoting Desired Lifestyles Among Adults With Severe Autism and Intellectual DisabilitiesDennis H. Reid, Mary Rosswurm20234 pts1 wins1 listsElsevierMedicine & Public HealthMedicine, Health & the Body+3
Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation GermanyTara Nummedal20194 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Pennsylvania PressBiographyMedicine, Health & the Body+2
Global Environmental Outlook – GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy PeopleUN Environment20194 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressNature & EnvironmentEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+3
The Slow Moon Climbs: The Science, History, and Meaning of MenopauseSusan P. Mattern20194 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressGender & SexualityScience & Discovery+3
Unearthing childhood: Young lives in prehistoryRobin Derricourt20184 pts1 wins1 listsManchester University PressHistoryMedicine, Health & the Body+3
Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and RevolutionSherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye, Sarula Bao, Caroline Brewer20174 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Toronto PressMedicine & Public HealthMedicine, Health & the Body+3
Strange Glow: The Story of RadiationTimothy J. Jorgensen20164 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressScienceCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's CourtAnna Whitelock20144 pts1 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxHistoryGender & Feminism+3
Twentieth-Century Color Photographs: Identification and CareSylvie Penichon20134 pts1 wins1 listsGetty PublicationsArts & CriticismEducation & Universities+3
Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, text and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botanySachiko Kusukawa20114 pts1 wins2 listsUniversity of Chicago PressSciencePublic Health Systems+1
Trotsky: A BiographyRobert Service20094 pts1 wins1 listsPan MacmillanBiographyMedicine, Health & the Body+3
The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession: Canonists, Civilians, & CourtsJames A. Brundage20084 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressHistoryMedicine, Health & the Body+3
Bicycle: The HistoryDavid V. Herlihy20044 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryMedicine, Health & the Body+2
The Worldwide History of TelecommunicationsAnton A. Huurdeman20034 pts1 wins1 listsWiley-IEEE PressHistoryPublic Health Systems+2
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of HumanityRoy Porter19974 pts1 wins1 listsFontanaMedicine & Public HealthDisease, Epidemics & Drugs+2
Our Children's Toxic LegacyJohn Wargo19964 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressPolitics & GovernmentEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+3
The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunication in Early ChristianityPeter Brown19884 pts1 wins1 listsColumbia University PressReligionGender & Feminism+3
CComputer Applications in Engineering EducationMagdy F. Iskander19934 pts1 wins1 listsWileyTechnologyInfrastructure, Engineering & Built Environment+3
CCultural Differences and Medical CareLyle Saunders19554 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMedicine & Public HealthPublic Health Systems+1
DDoctor and the AboriginesCharles Duguid19744 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMedicine & Public HealthPublic Health Systems+1
GGalen on the Usefulness of the Parts of the BodyMargaret T. May19694 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintSciencePublic Health Systems+1
HHandbook of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryEdited By: the late Joseph D. Noshpitz19974 pts1 wins1 listsWileyMedicine & Public HealthMedicine, Health & the Body+3
LLife on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency MedicineJames Maskalyk20174 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMedicine & Public HealthPublic Health Systems+1
OOperative Techniques in Cardiac and Thoracic SurgeryJames L. Cox, Thoralf M. Sundt III, M.D.19964 pts1 wins1 listsW.B. Saunders CompanyMedicine & Public HealthPublic Health Systems+1
The Chemical Philosophy: Paracelsian Science and Medicine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesAllen G. Debus19784 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintScienceMedicine, Health & the Body+3
TThe Essentials of Medical Geology: Impacts of the Natural Environment on Public HealthEditor-in-Chief: Olle Selinus, Associate Editors: Brian Alloway, José Centeno, Robert Finkelman, Ron Fuge, Ulf Lindh,, Pauline Smedley20054 pts1 wins1 listsElsevierMedicine & Public HealthMedicine, Health & the Body+2
TThe Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and the RajAnita Anand20204 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryMedicine, Health & the Body+3
TThe Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 220-1336Caroline Walker Bynum19954 pts1 wins1 listsColumbia University PressReligionPublic Health Systems+1
WWhite Wash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer and the Corruption of ScienceCarey Gillam20184 pts1 wins1 listsIsland PressNature & EnvironmentMedicine, Health & the Body+2
SSick of It: The Global Fight for Women's HealthSophie Harman20244 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMedicine & Public HealthMedicine, Health & the Body+2
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s StoryPolly Morland20234 pts0 wins1 listsPan MacmillanMedicine & Public HealthPublic Health Systems+3
The Body: A Guide for OccupantsBill Bryson20194 pts0 wins1 listsAnchorSciencePublic Health Systems+1
Birds in the Ancient World: Winged WordsJeremy Mynott20184 pts0 wins1 listsOxford University PressNature & EnvironmentMedicine, Health & the Body+2
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of BloodRose George20184 pts0 wins1 listsHenry Holt and CompanyScienceScience & Discovery+2
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and BeyondSonia Shah20164 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMedicine & Public HealthScience & Discovery+2
The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest MysteryGeorge Johnson20134 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfMedicine & Public HealthMedicine, Health & the Body+3
Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific RevolutionHolly Tucker20114 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonSciencePublic Health Systems+2
One in ThreeAdam Wishart20064 pts0 wins1 listsGrove PressScienceMedicine, Health & the Body+3
Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human BodyArmand Marie Leroi20054 pts0 wins1 listsPenguin BooksScienceMedicine, Health & the Body+2
The Truth About Hormones: What's Going on when We're Tetchy, Spotty, Fearful, Tearful or Just Plain AwfulVivienne Parry20054 pts0 wins1 listsAtlantic BooksSciencePublic Health Systems+1
In The Beginning Was the WormAndrew Brown20044 pts0 wins1 listsPocket BooksScienceMedicine, Health & the Body+2
The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital SystemCharles E. Rosenberg19894 pts0 wins1 listsBasic BooksMedicine & Public HealthMedicine, Health & the Body+2
Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging SocietyDaniel Callahan19884 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterMedicine & Public HealthMedicine, Health & the Body+2
The Medical DetectivesBerton Roueché19804 pts0 wins1 listsDuttonMedicine & Public HealthScience & Discovery+2
Victorian MindsGertrude Himmelfarb19684 pts0 wins1 listsWeidenfeld & NicolsonHistoryMental Health & Psychology+2
BBad Influence: How the Internet Hijacked our HealthDeborah Cohen20264 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMedicine & Public HealthMedicine, Health & the Body+2
Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New PlagueRichard Rhodes19974 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintScienceScience & Discovery+2
TThe Ms. Guide to a Woman's HealthCynthia W. Cooke, M.D.,, Susan Dworkin19804 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMedicine & Public HealthPublic Health Systems+2
Our Oaken BonesMerlin Hanbury-Tenison20252 pts0 wins1 listsRandom HouseMemoir & AutobiographyMedicine, Health & the Body+2
I Belong HereAnita Sethi20212 pts0 wins1 listsBloomsburyTravel & PlaceMedicine, Health & the Body+3
The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to DieKatie Engelhart20212 pts0 wins1 listsSt. Martin's PressPolitics & GovernmentDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Asperger’s ChildrenEdith Sheffer20192 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonHistoryMental Health & Psychology+2
On the Red HillMike Parker20192 pts0 wins1 listsRandom HouseMemoir & AutobiographyPublic Health Systems+1
Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston ChurchillSonia Purnell20152 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyMedicine, Health & the Body+3
Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' RollPeter Guralnick20152 pts0 wins1 listsOrionBiographyFilm, Television & Popular Culture+3
Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor PenguinsGavin Francis20132 pts0 wins1 listsRandom HouseNature & EnvironmentEmpire & Colonialism+3
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of MedicineVictoria Sweet20122 pts0 wins1 listsRiverhead BooksMedicine & Public HealthPublic Health Systems+2
Iris, A memoir of Iris MurdochJohn Bayley19992 pts0 wins1 listsAbacusMemoir & AutobiographyOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern WestPeter N. Stearns19972 pts0 wins1 listsNew York University PressSociety & CultureDisability & Difference+2
HHistory of Medicine: A Scandalously Short IntroductionJacalyn Duffin19992 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMedicine & Public HealthPublic Health Systems+1
SSomebody is Lying: The Story of Doctor X.Myron Farber19832 pts0 wins1 listsDoubledayMedicine & Public HealthPublic Health Systems+1
TTeach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and HealingTim Parks20102 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMedicine & Public HealthPublic Health Systems+1
TThe Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and MurderCharles Graeber20142 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTrue Crime & JusticeMedicine, Health & the Body+2
TThe Medical DetectivesPaulette Cooper19742 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMedicine & Public HealthPublic Health Systems+1
A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical MysteryLawrence Ingrassia20242 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyPublic Health Systems+2
The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American MedicineRicardo Nuila20242 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterMedicine & Public HealthPublic Health Systems+2
Why Peacocks? An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World's Most Magnificent BirdSean Flynn20212 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterNature & EnvironmentMedicine, Health & the Body+3
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky FlatsKristen Iversen20122 pts0 wins1 listsCrownMemoir & AutobiographyGender & Feminism+3
Sea BeanSally Huband20241 pts0 wins1 listsPenguin Publishing GroupMemoir & AutobiographyCourts & Trials+3
Cacophony of BoneKerri ní Dochartaigh20231 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting BetterPolly Atkin20231 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintNature & EnvironmentScience & Discovery+3
Someone To Talk ToMario Luis Small20170 pts0 wins1 listsOxford University PressSociety & CultureEducation & Universities+3
Caring for the Heart: Mayo Clinic and the Rise of SpecializationW. Bruce Fye20150 pts0 wins1 listsOxford University PressMedicine & Public HealthDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern MedicineAndrew Scull20150 pts0 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressMedicine & Public HealthPublic Health Systems+1
A Metaphysics of PsychopathologyPeter Zachar20140 pts0 wins1 listsMIT PressScienceIntelligence, Secrecy & Surveillance+3
Earth’s Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It MattersMartin J.S. Rudwick20140 pts0 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressSciencePublic Health Systems+1
The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every DayDavid J. Hand20140 pts0 wins1 listsScientific American/Farrar, Straus and GirouxScienceLiterature & Writers+3
Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do BetterPeter H. Schuck20140 pts0 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressPolitics & GovernmentMedicine, Health & the Body+3
2019Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted AmericaBeth MacyMedicine & Public Health2014Little, BrownHachette Book Group
1997Ashes to Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip MorrisRichard KlugerHistory2014KnopfPenguin Random House
2020Entangled LifeMerlin SheldrakeScience1422Random House Trade PaperbacksPenguin Random House
2012Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural HistoryFlorence WilliamsScience1011W. W. NortonW. W. Norton & Company
2011Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic GeniusSylvia NasarBusiness & Economics1011Simon & SchusterSimon & Schuster
2006Stumbling on HappinessDaniel GilbertScience1011Knopf CanadaPenguin Random House Canada
2003Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of RegulationPhilip J. HiltsMedicine & Public Health1011KnopfPenguin Random House
1998Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and CommerceDouglas StarrMedicine & Public Health1011KnopfPenguin Random House
1996Plague's ProgressArno KarlenMedicine & Public Health1011PhoenixHachette UK
1990Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk VaccineJane S. SmithMedicine & Public Health1011AnchorPenguin Random House
2014Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain SurgeryHenry MarshMedicine & Public Health1014Weidenfeld & NicolsonHachette UK
2008Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human BodyNeil ShubinScience812PantheonPenguin Random House
2007Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden AgeHarold J. CookHistory812Yale University PressYale University Press
2000Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public HealthLaurie GarrettMedicine & Public Health812UnknownNot yet sourced
2012Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human PandemicDavid QuammenScience802W. W. NortonW. W. Norton & Company
2023Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise HealthcareAnnabel SowemimoRace & Ethnicity602Profile BooksProfile Books
2022Spike: The Virus vs. The People – the Inside StoryJeremy Farrar, Anjana AhujaMedicine & Public Health602UnknownNot yet sourced
2025The World as We Know It: From Natural Philosophy to Modern SciencePeter DearHistory411Princeton University PressPrinceton University Press
2025Waves of Hope: Personal Stories of ECTGeorge KirovMedicine & Public Health411Cambridge University PressCambridge University Press
2024OOut of Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women's Mental Health and What Must ChangeLinda GaskMedicine & Public Health411Cambridge University PressCambridge University Press
2023Blight: Fungi and the Coming PandemicEmily MonossonScience411W. W. NortonW. W. Norton & Company
2023Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from ContagionRichard ConniffMedicine & Public Health411MIT PressMIT Press
2023Promoting Desired Lifestyles Among Adults With Severe Autism and Intellectual DisabilitiesDennis H. Reid, Mary RosswurmMedicine & Public Health411ElsevierElsevier
2019Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation GermanyTara NummedalBiography411University of Pennsylvania PressUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
2019Global Environmental Outlook – GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy PeopleUN EnvironmentNature & Environment411Cambridge University PressCambridge University Press
2019The Slow Moon Climbs: The Science, History, and Meaning of MenopauseSusan P. MatternGender & Sexuality411Princeton University PressPrinceton University Press
2018Unearthing childhood: Young lives in prehistoryRobin DerricourtHistory411Manchester University PressManchester University Press
2017Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and RevolutionSherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye, Sarula Bao, Caroline BrewerMedicine & Public Health411University of Toronto PressUniversity of Toronto Press
2016Strange Glow: The Story of RadiationTimothy J. JorgensenScience411Princeton University PressPrinceton University Press
2014The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's CourtAnna WhitelockHistory411Farrar, Straus and GirouxMacmillan
2013Twentieth-Century Color Photographs: Identification and CareSylvie PenichonArts & Criticism411Getty PublicationsGetty Publications
2011Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, text and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botanySachiko KusukawaScience412University of Chicago PressUniversity of Chicago Press
2009Trotsky: A BiographyRobert ServiceBiography411Pan MacmillanMacmillan
2008The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession: Canonists, Civilians, & CourtsJames A. BrundageHistory411University of Chicago PressUniversity of Chicago Press
2004Bicycle: The HistoryDavid V. HerlihyHistory411Yale University PressYale University Press
2003The Worldwide History of TelecommunicationsAnton A. HuurdemanHistory411Wiley-IEEE PressJohn Wiley & Sons
1997The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of HumanityRoy PorterMedicine & Public Health411FontanaHarperCollins
1996Our Children's Toxic LegacyJohn WargoPolitics & Government411Yale University PressYale University Press
1988The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunication in Early ChristianityPeter BrownReligion411Columbia University PressColumbia University Press
1993CComputer Applications in Engineering EducationMagdy F. IskanderTechnology411WileyWiley
1955CCultural Differences and Medical CareLyle SaundersMedicine & Public Health411UnknownNot yet sourced
1974DDoctor and the AboriginesCharles DuguidMedicine & Public Health411UnknownNot yet sourced
1969GGalen on the Usefulness of the Parts of the BodyMargaret T. MayScience411UnknownNot yet sourced
1997HHandbook of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryEdited By: the late Joseph D. NoshpitzMedicine & Public Health411WileyWiley
2017LLife on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency MedicineJames MaskalykMedicine & Public Health411UnknownNot yet sourced
1996OOperative Techniques in Cardiac and Thoracic SurgeryJames L. Cox, Thoralf M. Sundt III, M.D.Medicine & Public Health411W.B. Saunders CompanyW.B. Saunders Company
1978The Chemical Philosophy: Paracelsian Science and Medicine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesAllen G. DebusScience411UnknownNot yet sourced
2005TThe Essentials of Medical Geology: Impacts of the Natural Environment on Public HealthEditor-in-Chief: Olle Selinus, Associate Editors: Brian Alloway, José Centeno, Robert Finkelman, Ron Fuge, Ulf Lindh,, Pauline SmedleyMedicine & Public Health411ElsevierElsevier
2020TThe Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and the RajAnita AnandHistory411UnknownNot yet sourced
1995TThe Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 220-1336Caroline Walker BynumReligion411Columbia University PressColumbia University Press
2018WWhite Wash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer and the Corruption of ScienceCarey GillamNature & Environment411Island PressIsland Press
2024SSick of It: The Global Fight for Women's HealthSophie HarmanMedicine & Public Health401UnknownNot yet sourced
2023A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s StoryPolly MorlandMedicine & Public Health401Pan MacmillanMacmillan
2019The Body: A Guide for OccupantsBill BrysonScience401AnchorPenguin Random House
2018Birds in the Ancient World: Winged WordsJeremy MynottNature & Environment401Oxford University PressOxford University Press
2018Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of BloodRose GeorgeScience401Henry Holt and CompanyMacmillan
2016Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and BeyondSonia ShahMedicine & Public Health401UnknownNot yet sourced
2013The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest MysteryGeorge JohnsonMedicine & Public Health401KnopfPenguin Random House
2011Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific RevolutionHolly TuckerScience401W. W. NortonW. W. Norton & Company
2006One in ThreeAdam WishartScience401Grove PressGrove Atlantic
2005Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human BodyArmand Marie LeroiScience401Penguin BooksPenguin Random House
2005The Truth About Hormones: What's Going on when We're Tetchy, Spotty, Fearful, Tearful or Just Plain AwfulVivienne ParryScience401Atlantic BooksAtlantic Books
2004In The Beginning Was the WormAndrew BrownScience401Pocket BooksSimon & Schuster
1989The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital SystemCharles E. RosenbergMedicine & Public Health401Basic BooksHachette Book Group
1988Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging SocietyDaniel CallahanMedicine & Public Health401Simon & SchusterSimon & Schuster
1980The Medical DetectivesBerton RouechéMedicine & Public Health401DuttonPenguin Random House
1968Victorian MindsGertrude HimmelfarbHistory401Weidenfeld & NicolsonHachette UK
2026BBad Influence: How the Internet Hijacked our HealthDeborah CohenMedicine & Public Health401UnknownNot yet sourced
1997Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New PlagueRichard RhodesScience401UnknownNot yet sourced
1980TThe Ms. Guide to a Woman's HealthCynthia W. Cooke, M.D.,, Susan DworkinMedicine & Public Health401UnknownNot yet sourced
2025Our Oaken BonesMerlin Hanbury-TenisonMemoir & Autobiography201Random HousePenguin Random House
2021I Belong HereAnita SethiTravel & Place201BloomsburyBloomsbury Publishing
2021The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to DieKatie EngelhartPolitics & Government201St. Martin's PressMacmillan
2019Asperger’s ChildrenEdith ShefferHistory201W. W. NortonW. W. Norton & Company
2019On the Red HillMike ParkerMemoir & Autobiography201Random HousePenguin Random House
2015Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston ChurchillSonia PurnellBiography201UnknownNot yet sourced
2015Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' RollPeter GuralnickBiography201OrionHachette UK
2013Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor PenguinsGavin FrancisNature & Environment201Random HousePenguin Random House
2012God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of MedicineVictoria SweetMedicine & Public Health201Riverhead BooksPenguin Random House
1999Iris, A memoir of Iris MurdochJohn BayleyMemoir & Autobiography201AbacusHachette UK
1997Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern WestPeter N. StearnsSociety & Culture201New York University PressNew York University Press
1999HHistory of Medicine: A Scandalously Short IntroductionJacalyn DuffinMedicine & Public Health201UnknownNot yet sourced
1983SSomebody is Lying: The Story of Doctor X.Myron FarberMedicine & Public Health201DoubledayPenguin Random House
2010TTeach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and HealingTim ParksMedicine & Public Health201UnknownNot yet sourced
2014TThe Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and MurderCharles GraeberTrue Crime & Justice201UnknownGrand Central Publishing/Twelve
1974TThe Medical DetectivesPaulette CooperMedicine & Public Health201UnknownDavid McKay
2024A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical MysteryLawrence IngrassiaMemoir & Autobiography201UnknownHolt
2024The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American MedicineRicardo NuilaMedicine & Public Health201Simon & SchusterSimon & Schuster
2021Why Peacocks? An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World's Most Magnificent BirdSean FlynnNature & Environment201Simon & SchusterSimon & Schuster
2012Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky FlatsKristen IversenMemoir & Autobiography201CrownPenguin Random House
2024Sea BeanSally HubandMemoir & Autobiography101Penguin Publishing GroupPenguin Random House
2023Cacophony of BoneKerri ní DochartaighMemoir & Autobiography101UnknownNot yet sourced
2023Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting BetterPolly AtkinNature & Environment101UnknownSceptre, Hodder & Stoughton
2017Someone To Talk ToMario Luis SmallSociety & Culture001Oxford University PressOxford University Press
2015Caring for the Heart: Mayo Clinic and the Rise of SpecializationW. Bruce FyeMedicine & Public Health001Oxford University PressOxford University Press
2015Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern MedicineAndrew ScullMedicine & Public Health001Princeton University PressPrinceton University Press
2014A Metaphysics of PsychopathologyPeter ZacharScience001MIT PressMIT Press
2014Earth’s Deep History: How It Was Discovered and Why It MattersMartin J.S. RudwickScience001University of Chicago PressUniversity of Chicago Press
2014The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every DayDavid J. HandScience001Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and GirouxMacmillan
2014Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do BetterPeter H. SchuckPolitics & Government001Princeton University PressPrinceton University Press

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