A collection concerning medical history, development, education, etc. Topics of epidemiology and pharmaceuticals included.
created by Cosmoite
last updated February, 2026
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Lindsey Fitzharris
Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul
Brandy Schillace
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
Joshua D. Mezrich
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
Dorothy Roberts
Intern
Doctor X.
Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails
Camper English
The Demon in the Freezer
Richard Preston
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
Thomas Hager
Rats, Lice and History: The Classic Account of Infectious Disease and Human History (Prelude Science Classics)
Hans Zinsser
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
John M. Barry
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
Roy Porter
The Facemaker
The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
Wendy Moore
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
Randy Shilts
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
Under The Knife
Arnold van de Laar
Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America's Blood Industry
Kathleen McLaughlin
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
Rose George
Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages
Nathan Belofsky
The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates
Robin Lane Fox
The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
Ricardo Nuila
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
Jennifer Wright
The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine
Justin McElroy
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
Rupa Marya
Do No Harm: The Opioid Epidemic
Harry Wiland
Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
Lydia Kang
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
Thomas Morris
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
Bill Wasik
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Harriet A. Washington
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Deirdre Cooper Owens
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