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History Of Medicine

  • March 4, 2025
  • 201 Books
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Mad, Bad And Sad
Strange Medicine
The Hot Zone
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A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
The Search for an Abortionist: The Classic Study of How American Women Coped with Unwanted Pregnancy before Roe v. Wade
Body and Soul
Fatal Invention
Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century: In and Beyond the Asylum
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Man's Most Dangerous Myth

Superior: The Return of Race Science
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
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Pox Americana

The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth: And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations
Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia
Destiny of the Republic
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Asleep
Quarantine Life from Cholera to COVID-19: What Pandemics Teach Us About Parenting, Work, Life, and Communities from the 1700s to Today
Polio: An American Story
Plagues and Peoples
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Disease & History

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
The American Plague
Pain: A Political History
Not Tonight
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Ether Day

Migraine
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
A Taste for Poison
Making Medicine: Surprising Stories from the History of Drug Discovery
Phantom Plague
The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood
The Urge
A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine
Duel Without End: Mankind’s Battle with Microbes
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine
As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
Bizarre Medicine: Unusual Treatments and Practices through the Ages
Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence
Blood work a tale of medicine and murder in the scientific revolution
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Blood

Birth
Flow
Flu
Breathless
The Knife Man
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
The Doctors' Plague
The Secret Life of Dr. James Barry: Victorian England's Most Eminent Surgeon
Shocked
Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons
Blood and Guts
The Barbary Plague
The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
Heart
The Eradication of Smallpox: Edward Jenner and The First and Only Eradication of a Human Infectious Disease
Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: Diagnosing the Medical Groans and Last Gasps of Ten Great Writers
Dragon's Blood & Willow Bark: The Mysteries of Medieval Medicine
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
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Dr. Mèutter's marvels

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A Guinea Pig's History of Biology

Smallpox: The Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer
The speckled monster
Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
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The Woman with a Worm in Her Head

The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
Terrible Typhoid Mary
Human Remains: Episodes in Human Dissection
Sex Science Self: A Social History of Estrogen, Testosterone, and Identity
Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings
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The Man Who Touched His Own Heart

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Please Select Your Gender

Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex
Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender
Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine
Psychiatry and Its Discontents
Desperate Remedies
Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity
Hysteria: The Biography
The Horrors of the Half-Known Life: Male Attitudes Toward Women and Sexuality in 19th. Century America
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A Recent History of Lesbian and Gay Psychology

Gentlemen's Disagreement: Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman, and the Sexual Politics of Smart Men
Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World
The Power of Plagues
Period: The Real Story of Menstruation
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Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones

Dismissed: Tackling the Biases That Undermine our Health Care
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
Blood Money
The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story
Microcosm
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Dark Remedy