History of Medicine Books
Last updated: September 17, 2024
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The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine
by Shigehisa Kuriyama -
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The Gospel of Germs
by Nancy Tomes -
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The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866
by Charles Rosenberg -
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Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
by Deirdre Cooper Owens -
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The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America
by Allan Brandt
Best History of Medicine Books, recommended by Keith Wailoo
Best History of Medicine Books, recommended by Keith Wailoo
The history of medicine is not just the story of life-saving discoveries, it’s also about how medical advances interact with the society from which they emerge. Here Professor Keith Wailoo, a historian of medicine and public health at Princeton University, recommends books that shed light on the social history of medicine, especially in the United States.
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Polio: An American Story
by David Oshinsky -
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Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver
by Arthur Allen -
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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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Microbe Hunters
by Paul de Kruif -
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic
by Steven Johnson
The Best Vaccine Books, recommended by Seth Mnookin
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 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.
