Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails

Camper English

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

Deirdre Cooper Owens

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century

Dorothy Roberts

Rats, Lice and History: The Classic Account of Infectious Disease and Human History (Prelude Science Classics)

Hans Zinsser

The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic

Thomas Asbridge

Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle

Thea Cooper

The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science

Philip Ball

The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates

Robin Lane Fox

The Woman beneath the Skin: A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany

Barbara Duden

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity

Roy Porter

The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery

Wendy Moore

Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)

Colin Elliott

A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

Thomas Morris

The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever

Lydia Reeder

Polio: An American Story

David M. Oshinsky

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

Lydia Kang

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

John Green

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

John M. Barry

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

Steven Johnson

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

Lindsey Fitzharris

Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine

Thomas Hager

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

Deborah Blum

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

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

Janice P. Nimura

The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

Jared Diamond