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disease, germs, and plagues, oh my!

by endless_tbr_list

histories of sickness around the globe - death, destruction, and the fight for cures and eradication

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

regrettably real diseases

by stainedglasswings

nonfiction about diseases, epidemics, pandemics, outbreaks & more

focusing on horror & thriller nonfiction that will make you shudder as you read 👁️‍🗨️

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

The Demon in the Freezer

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

The Journey Scientific

Science books from several disciplines, because it never does to only know about one thing.

Chaos: Making a New Science

This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences

Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table

Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease

Chaos: Making a New Science

This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences

So your niche interest is the plague

Nonfiction and fiction about the black plague

Hamnet

The Decameron

The Last Hours (Black Death, #1)

A Journal of the Plague Year (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Hamnet

The Decameron

The History of Medicine

From The Four Humors to Chemotherapy.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

The Gene: An Intimate History

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

The Gene: An Intimate History

The Black Death and Medieval Disease

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages (Wellcome Collection)

Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond

King Death: The Black Death and its Aftermath in Late-Medieval England

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages (Wellcome Collection)

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