Best Medical Nonfiction

1
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
16,958 members
777 reviews
4.2
10 Members
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2
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by Anne Fadiman
5,319 members
133 reviews
4.2
8 Members
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5
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
6,065 members
216 reviews
½ 4.3
7 Members
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6
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
by Atul Gawande
3,444 members
87 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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7
Awakenings
by Oliver Sacks
2,738 members
27 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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8
The Medical Detectives, Volume 1
by Berton Roueché
452 members
1 review
4.1
5 Members
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9
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by Randy Shilts
3,268 members
63 reviews
½ 4.4
5 Members
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10
Flu
by Gina Kolata
1,413 members
37 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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11
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
by Seth Mnookin
482 members
13 reviews
4
4 Members
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12
The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher
by Lewis Thomas
475 members
7 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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13
The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America
by Gerald N. Grob
43 members
½ 4.3
3 Members
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14
A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
by John Berger
366 members
13 reviews
4
3 Members
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15
Coppola: A Pediatric Surgeon in Iraq
by Chris Coppola
79 members
45 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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17
How Doctors Think
by Jerome Groopman
1,747 members
50 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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18
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
by Sherwin B. Nuland
2,381 members
30 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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19
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by Laurie Garrett
1,898 members
28 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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20
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
by Laurie Garrett
467 members
6 reviews
3.9
3 Members
Chatterbox, smc1, HollyBoggie
21
Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
by Jennifer Worth
2,901 members
149 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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22
The New Our Bodies, Ourselves
by Boston Women's Health Book Collective
973 members
8 reviews
4
2 Members
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23
Five Patients: The Hospital Explained
by Michael Crichton
1,052 members
9 reviews
3
2 Members
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24
Food For Thought (Volume 1)
by Emerald Lindsay
5 members
½ 4.5
2 Members
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25
In a House of Dreams and Glass: Becoming a Psychiatrist
by Robert Klitzman
41 members
1 review
½ 4.5
2 Members
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26
Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
by Pauline W. Chen
505 members
17 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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27
Eleven Blue Men and Other Narratives of Medical Detection
by Berton Roueché
118 members
1 review
½ 4.5
3 Members
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29
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women
by Barbara Ehrenreich
914 members
21 reviews
3.8
2 Members
eromsted, HollyBoggie
30
Rethinking Thin
by Gina Kolata
318 members
15 reviews
3.9
2 Members
Chatterbox, HollyBoggie
31
Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care
by Augustus A. White III
42 members
1 review
4
2 Members
kidzdoc, HollyBoggie
32
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
by Paul Farmer
402 members
3 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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33
Death Be Not Proud
by John Gunther
2,684 members
40 reviews
3.8
2 Members
kageeh, dara85
34
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
by Atul Gawande
2,465 members
72 reviews
4.1
2 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh
35
A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years As A Medical Student
by Perri Klass
191 members
½ 3.7
2 Members
kidzdoc, lahochstetler
36
Quacks: Fakers & Charlatans in English Medicine
by Roy Porter
90 members
1 review
3.8
2 Members
kidzdoc, HollyBoggie
37
Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic
by Pamela Weintraub
88 members
5 reviews
3.9
2 Members
smc1, HollyBoggie
38
The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System
by Charles E. Rosenberg
108 members
4.2
2 Members
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39
Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School
by Melvin Konner
156 members
½ 3.7
2 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh
40
Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates
by David Wootton
121 members
4 reviews
4
2 Members
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42
Medical London: City of Diseases, City of Cures
by Richard Barnett
51 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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43
The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
by Sherwin B. Nuland
285 members
6 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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44
Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
by William Rosen
86 members
2 reviews
4.1
Member
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45
Children's Hospital
by Peggy Anderson
82 members
1 review
4.1
Member
dara85
47
Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
by Roy Porter
456 members
8 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh
48
Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox
by Gareth Williams
63 members
2 reviews
4.1
2 Members
kidzdoc, smc1
49
Match Day: One Day and One Dramatic Year in the Lives of Three New Doctors
by Brian Eule
83 members
7 reviews
3.8
2 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh
50
The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
by Sarah Manguso
238 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
kidzdoc, smc1
51
Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients
by Danielle Ofri
44 members
2 reviews
3.8
2 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh
52
Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
by Danielle Ofri
140 members
5 reviews
3.9
2 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh
53
Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine
by Danielle Ofri
48 members
1 review
3.9
2 Members
kidzdoc, kageeh
54
Against Medical Advice: A True Story
by James Patterson
1,070 members
40 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
dara85
55
Ask Me Why I Hurt: The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them
by Randy Christensen
103 members
8 reviews
4.2
Member
lahochstetler
56
The Paradox of Progress
by James Willis
4 members
Member
abbottthomas
57
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
by Henry Marsh
1,327 members
52 reviews
4.1
Member
abbottthomas
58
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death, and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
by Michael J. Collins
275 members
9 reviews
3.9
Member
dara85
60
Some Lives: A G.P.'s East End
by David Widgery
28 members
4
Member
abbottthomas
61
Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
by Henry Marsh
362 members
18 reviews
3.8
Member
abbottthomas
62
A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
by Lawrence Ingrassia
92 members
8 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
dara85
63
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
by Abraham Verghese
1,203 members
30 reviews
4.2
Member
kidzdoc
64
Angels in the ER: Inspiring True Stories from an Emergency Room Doctor
by Robert D. Lesslie
239 members
4 reviews
3.9
Member
dara85
67
Hospital
by Polly Toynbee
5 members
Member
ahef1963
68
Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa
by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
339 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
eromsted
69
Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, New and Expanded Edition
by James H. Jones
387 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
eromsted
70
Listening to Prozac
by Peter D. Kramer
958 members
9 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
smc1
71
Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis
by Robert Proctor
167 members
4.1
Member
eromsted
72
Baby Doctor
by Perri Klass
42 members
1 review
½ 3.4
Member
kidzdoc
73
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
by Paul Farmer
757 members
8 reviews
4.2
Member
kidzdoc
74
Nursing against the Odds
by Suzanne Gordon
82 members
1 review
4.8
Member
eromsted
75
Ancient Medicine
by Vivian Nutton
133 members
1 review
3.8
Member
eromsted
76
Framing Disease: Studies in Cultural History
by Charles E. Rosenberg
44 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Member
eromsted
77
From Humors to Medical Science: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN MEDICINE
by John Duffy
28 members
3
Member
eromsted
78
The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy
by Bill Hayes
252 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
kidzdoc
79
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti
by Milton Rokeach
448 members
21 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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