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Morbid Curiosity

by violet.booklover

Nonfiction books to explore your morbid curiosity. Topics include death, pathogens, the paranormal, and more.

Check out my list horror nonfiction for books about horror media.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies

Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

A History of the World Through Body Parts: The Stories Behind the Organs, Appendages, Digits, and the Like Attached to (or Detached from) Famous Bodies

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies

Brain Food (from kale to popcorn)

by SheReadsAtMidnight

You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink

Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse

That's How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor

You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink

HIV/AIDS Nonfiction Books

by violet.booklover

Books about HIV/AIDS. Both contemporary and historical. Emphasis on intersectionality.

The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

Fight AIDS!: How Activism, Art, and Protest Changed the Course of a Deadly Epidemic and Reshaped a Nation

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

Fight AIDS!: How Activism, Art, and Protest Changed the Course of a Deadly Epidemic and Reshaped a Nation

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

in the age of covid

disability and public health in the age of covid

millions of people are navigating chronic illness after the onset of covid19 pandemic and encountering barriers to treatment, work, and social access. this will look into the history of epidemiology, pandemics, eugenics, and what we can do to alter the course of abandoning public health.

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

Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU

Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19

What We Value: Public Health, Social Justice, and Educating for Democracy (The Malcolm Lester Phi Beta Kappa Lectures on the Liberal Arts and Public Life)

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

Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU

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