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Medicine

Most Recommended Books

Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif

“Microbe Hunters has never been out of print and is perhaps the most successful medical science book ever written.”

John Rhodes, Scientist

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    The best books on Immunology, recommended by John Rhodes

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    The best books on Immunology - An Inquiry Into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae by Edward Jenner

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    An Inquiry Into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae
    by Edward Jenner

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    The best books on Immunology - Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif

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    Microbe Hunters
    by Paul de Kruif

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    The best books on Immunology - The Beautiful Cure: The New Science of Human Health by Daniel M Davis

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    The Beautiful Cure: The New Science of Human Health
    by Daniel M Davis

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    The best books on Immunology - Nemesis by Philip Roth

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    Nemesis
    by Philip Roth

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    The best books on Immunology - Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us by Paul Offit

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    Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us
    by Paul Offit

  • The best books on Immunology - An Inquiry Into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae by Edward Jenner
  • The best books on Immunology - Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif
  • The best books on Immunology - The Beautiful Cure: The New Science of Human Health by Daniel M Davis
  • The best books on Immunology - Nemesis by Philip Roth
  • The best books on Immunology - Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us by Paul Offit

The best books on Immunology, recommended by John Rhodes

John Rhodes, immunologist and author of The End of Plagues and How to Make a Vaccine, selects five of the best books to help the layperson understand the human immune system in all its fiendish complexity—and explains why the discovery of a successful vaccine is only the initial breakthrough in the long and logistically challenging battle for disease eradication.

The best books on Immunology, recommended by John Rhodes

    The best books on Medicine and Literature, recommended by Gavin Francis

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    The best books on Medicine and Literature - Hippocratic Writings by Hippocrates

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    Hippocratic Writings
    by Hippocrates

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    The best books on Medicine and Literature - On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf

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    On Being Ill
    by Virginia Woolf

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    The best books on Medicine and Literature - A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor by Jean Mohr & John Berger

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    A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
    by Jean Mohr & John Berger

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    The best books on Medicine and Literature - Intoxicated By My Illness by Anatole Broyard

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    Intoxicated By My Illness
    by Anatole Broyard

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    The best books on Medicine and Literature - Frissure by Kathleen Jamie

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    Frissure
    by Kathleen Jamie

  • The best books on Medicine and Literature - Hippocratic Writings by Hippocrates
  • The best books on Medicine and Literature - On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf
  • The best books on Medicine and Literature - A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor by Jean Mohr & John Berger
  • The best books on Medicine and Literature - Intoxicated By My Illness by Anatole Broyard
  • The best books on Medicine and Literature - Frissure by Kathleen Jamie

The best books on Medicine and Literature, recommended by Gavin Francis

What can literature offer to medicine and what can medicine offer to literature? Author and physician Gavin Francis offers his professional opinion – and prescribes a list of five notable books at the intersection of his two great passions.

The best books on Medicine and Literature, recommended by Gavin Francis

    The best books on Radiation, recommended by Timothy J. Jorgensen

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    The best books on Radiation - The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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    The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
    by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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    The best books on Radiation - Thunderstruck by Erik Larson

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    Thunderstruck
    by Erik Larson

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    The best books on Radiation - Moneyball by Michael Lewis

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    Moneyball
    by Michael Lewis

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    The best books on Radiation - The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean

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    The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
    by Sam Kean

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    The best books on Radiation - Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin

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    Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
    by Dan Fagin

  • The best books on Radiation - The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • The best books on Radiation - Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
  • The best books on Radiation - Moneyball by Michael Lewis
  • The best books on Radiation - The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
  • The best books on Radiation - Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin

The best books on Radiation, recommended by Timothy J. Jorgensen

Public understanding of radiation needs to improve if people are to properly assess its benefits and risks argues author and academic, Timothy Jorgensen. From the discovery of radio to a cancer cluster in New Jersey, he chooses highly readable books illuminating different aspects of radiation.

The best books on Radiation, recommended by Timothy J. Jorgensen

    The Best Vaccine Books, recommended by Seth Mnookin

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    The Best Vaccine Books - Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky

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    Polio: An American Story
    by David Oshinsky

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    The Best Vaccine Books - Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver by Arthur Allen

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    Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver
    by Arthur Allen

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    The Best Vaccine Books - The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis by Paul Offit

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    The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis
    by Paul Offit

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    The Best Vaccine Books - Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif

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    Microbe Hunters
    by Paul de Kruif

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    The Best Vaccine Books - The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic by Steven Johnson

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    The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic
    by Steven Johnson

  • The Best Vaccine Books - Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky
  • The Best Vaccine Books - Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver by Arthur Allen
  • The Best Vaccine Books - The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis by Paul Offit
  • The Best Vaccine Books - Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif
  • The Best Vaccine Books - The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic by Steven Johnson

The Best Vaccine Books, recommended by Seth Mnookin

The history of vaccines is fascinating, and we highly recommend all the books discussed in this interview with Seth Mnookin, author of The Panic Virus and Professor of Science Writing at MIT. These are gripping reads that tell the story of vaccines, medicine’s greatest life-saver, and the risks people took to find them.

The Best Vaccine Books, recommended by Seth Mnookin

    The best books on Public Health, recommended by Thomas Frieden

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    The best books on Public Health - Vaccinated by Paul A Offit, MD

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    Vaccinated
    by Paul A Offit, MD

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    The best books on Public Health - House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox by William H Foege

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    House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox
    by William H Foege

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    The best books on Public Health - Inside the Outbreaks by Mark Pendergrast

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    Inside the Outbreaks
    by Mark Pendergrast

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    The best books on Public Health - Tobacco: A Global Threat by John Crofton and David Simpson

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    Tobacco: A Global Threat
    by John Crofton and David Simpson

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    The best books on Public Health - Rose’s Strategy of Preventive Medicine by Geoffrey Rose

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    Rose’s Strategy of Preventive Medicine
    by Geoffrey Rose

  • The best books on Public Health - Vaccinated by Paul A Offit, MD
  • The best books on Public Health - House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox by William H Foege
  • The best books on Public Health - Inside the Outbreaks by Mark Pendergrast
  • The best books on Public Health - Tobacco: A Global Threat by John Crofton and David Simpson
  • The best books on Public Health - Rose’s Strategy of Preventive Medicine by Geoffrey Rose

The best books on Public Health, recommended by Thomas Frieden

Infectious disease expert—and former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention— Thomas Frieden, takes us inside the world of fighting epidemics, eradicating disease and confronting the preventable damage we do to ourselves.

The best books on Public Health, recommended by Thomas Frieden

    The best books on The History of Medicine and Addiction, recommended by Louise Foxcroft

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    The best books on The History of Medicine and Addiction - Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn

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    Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    by Thomas Kuhn

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    The best books on The History of Medicine and Addiction - Mind-Forg’d Manacles by Roy Porter

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    Mind-Forg’d Manacles
    by Roy Porter

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    The best books on The History of Medicine and Addiction - Tormented Hope by Brian Dillon

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    Tormented Hope
    by Brian Dillon

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    The best books on The History of Medicine and Addiction - Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach

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    Fat is a Feminist Issue
    by Susie Orbach

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    The best books on The History of Medicine and Addiction - Emperors of Dreams by Mike Jay

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    Emperors of Dreams
    by Mike Jay

  • The best books on The History of Medicine and Addiction - Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
  • The best books on The History of Medicine and Addiction - Mind-Forg’d Manacles by Roy Porter
  • The best books on The History of Medicine and Addiction - Tormented Hope by Brian Dillon
  • The best books on The History of Medicine and Addiction - Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach
  • The best books on The History of Medicine and Addiction - Emperors of Dreams by Mike Jay

The best books on The History of Medicine and Addiction, recommended by Louise Foxcroft

Historian and author Louise Foxcroft prescribes reading on medical practices of the past, from treatments of madness and non-existent disease, to drug use and the origins of hypochondria.

The best books on The History of Medicine and Addiction, recommended by Louise Foxcroft

    The best books on Medicinal Marijuana, recommended by Tato Grasso

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    The best books on Medicinal Marijuana - Cannabis Uso e Abuso by Giancarlo Arnao

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    Cannabis Uso e Abuso
    by Giancarlo Arnao

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    The best books on Medicinal Marijuana - Marijuana by Dr Lester Grinspoon and James B Baker

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    Marijuana
    by Dr Lester Grinspoon and James B Baker

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    The best books on Medicinal Marijuana - Therapeutic Uses of Cannabis by British Medical Association

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    Therapeutic Uses of Cannabis
    by British Medical Association

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    The best books on Medicinal Marijuana - Cannabis and Cannabinoids by Franjo Grotenhermen and Ethan Russo

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    Cannabis and Cannabinoids
    by Franjo Grotenhermen and Ethan Russo

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    The best books on Medicinal Marijuana - Erba Medica by Associazione Cannabis Terapeutica

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    Erba Medica
    by Associazione Cannabis Terapeutica

  • The best books on Medicinal Marijuana - Cannabis Uso e Abuso by Giancarlo Arnao
  • The best books on Medicinal Marijuana - Marijuana by Dr Lester Grinspoon and James B Baker
  • The best books on Medicinal Marijuana - Therapeutic Uses of Cannabis by British Medical Association
  • The best books on Medicinal Marijuana - Cannabis and Cannabinoids by Franjo Grotenhermen and Ethan Russo
  • The best books on Medicinal Marijuana - Erba Medica by Associazione Cannabis Terapeutica

The best books on Medicinal Marijuana, recommended by Tato Grasso

The Italian cardiologist and fellow of the International Association for Cannabis as Medicine proposes five books on Medicinal Marijuana and explains why we should be reading them.

The best books on Medicinal Marijuana, recommended by Tato Grasso

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