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Medicine & Public Health

Award-recognized works classified under medicine & public health, with sortable prize results, imprints, and related subjects.

Medicine & Public Health · Sorted by award activity · Showing 50 of 131 books

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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

Sheri Fink

2013
5 wins6 listsCrown

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee

2011
2 wins7 listsScribner

The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry

Paul Starr

1982
2 wins2 listsBasic Books

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Anne Fadiman

1997
2 wins2 listsFarrar, Straus and Giroux

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America

Beth Macy

2019
1 wins4 listsLittle, Brown

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation

Dan Fagin

2013
3 wins3 listsBantam Books

How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

Sherwin B. Nuland

1995
1 wins3 listsKnopf

Dreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate Epidemic

Sam Quinones

2015
1 wins3 listsBloomsbury

How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS

David France

2016
1 wins3 listsVintage Books

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Andrew Solomon

2001
1 wins2 listsScribner

Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

Katherine Eban

2019
2 wins3 listsEcco

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

2010
2 wins3 listsCrown

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

Henry Marsh

2014
1 wins4 listsWeidenfeld & Nicolson

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

Lindsey Fitzharris

2017
1 wins3 listsAllen Lane

Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce

Douglas Starr

1998
1 wins1 listsKnopf

In the Sleep Room

Anne Collins

1988
1 wins1 listsNot yet sourced

Interpretation of Schizophrenia

Silvano Arieti

1955
1 wins1 listsR. Brunner

Living with Risk

British Medical Association Board of Science

-
1 wins1 listsNot yet sourced

Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine

Jane S. Smith

1990
1 wins1 listsAnchor

Plague's Progress

Arno Karlen

1996
1 wins1 listsPhoenix

Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation

Philip J. Hilts

2003
1 wins1 listsKnopf

Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers

Nancy Tomes

2017
1 wins1 listsUniversity of North Carolina Press

The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine

James Le Fanu, M.D.

-
1 wins1 listsBasic Books

Who Walk Alone

Perry Burgess

1940
1 wins1 listsKessinger Publishing, LLC

Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

Laurie Garrett

2000
1 wins2 listsNot yet sourced

They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals

Mariah Blake

2025
0 wins3 listsCrown

Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

David Quammen

2022
0 wins2 listsSimon & Schuster

Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life

Louise Aronson

2019
0 wins2 listsBloomsbury

Spike: The Virus vs. The People – the Inside Story

Jeremy Farrar, Anjana Ahuja

-
0 wins2 listsNot yet sourced

The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

Meghan O’Rourke

2022
0 wins2 listsRiverhead Books

The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

Sam Quinones

2021
0 wins2 listsBloomsbury

Clinical Psychopharmacology: Principles and Practice

S. Nassir Ghaemi

2018
1 wins1 listsOxford University Press

Cultural Differences and Medical Care

Lyle Saunders

-
1 wins1 listsNot yet sourced

Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease

Arleen Marcia Tuchman

2020
1 wins1 listsYale University Press

Doctor and the Aborigines

Charles Duguid

-
1 wins1 listsNot yet sourced

Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from Contagion

Richard Conniff

2023
1 wins1 listsMIT Press

Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy

Susan M. Reverby

2009
1 wins1 listsUniversity of North Carolina Press

Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity

Theodore M. Porter

2018
1 wins1 listsPrinceton University Press

Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Edited By: the late Joseph D. Noshpitz

-
1 wins1 listsWiley

Life on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine

James Maskalyk

-
1 wins1 listsNot yet sourced

Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution

Sherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye, Sarula Bao, Caroline Brewer

2017
1 wins1 listsUniversity of Toronto Press

Operative Techniques in Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery

James L. Cox, Thoralf M. Sundt III, M.D.

-
1 wins1 listsW.B. Saunders Company

Out of Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women's Mental Health and What Must Change

Linda Gask

2024
1 wins1 listsCambridge University Press

Promoting Desired Lifestyles Among Adults With Severe Autism and Intellectual Disabilities

Dennis H. Reid, Mary Rosswurm

2023
1 wins1 listsElsevier

Seeds of Mortality

Stewart Justman

2003
1 wins1 listsNot yet sourced

T he Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient World

Guido Majno

-
1 wins1 listsHarvard University Press

The Essentials of Medical Geology: Impacts of the Natural Environment on Public Health

Editor-in-Chief: Olle Selinus, Associate Editors: Brian Alloway, José Centeno, Robert Finkelman, Ron Fuge, Ulf Lindh,, Pauline Smedley

-
1 wins1 listsElsevier

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity

Roy Porter

1997
1 wins1 listsFontana

The Loss of Sadness

Allan V. Horwitz, Jerome Wakefield

2007
1 wins1 listsOxford University Press

The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages

Joan Cadden

1995
1 wins1 listsCambridge University Press

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