The history of how drugs were made to save lives… and how evil people ruined them
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last updated April, 2026
Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
James Davies
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green
Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic
Barry Meier
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
Kate Moore
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield's War on Vaccines
Brian Deer
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
Ben Goldacre
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
Lydia Kang
99 Ways to Die: And How to Avoid Them
Ashely Alker MD
Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines
Jennifer A. Reich
Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
Ben Westhoff
Kill Shot: A Shadow Industry, a Deadly Disease
Jason Dearen
Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
Jennifer Vanderbes
Killer in a White Coat: The True Story of New York's Deadliest Pill Pusher and the Team that Brought Him to Justice
Charlotte Bismuth
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
Elisabeth Rosenthal
Her-2: The Making of Herceptin, a Revolutionary Treatment for Breast Cancer
Robert Bazell
Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far
Paul A. Offit
Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
John Abramson
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Beth Macy
Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America
Gerald Posner
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
Gardiner Harris
Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
Maya Dusenbery
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
Thomas Hager
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe
Very interesting topic, may I suggest Sedated by James Davies?
great suggestion thank you! added :)
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