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A list of books the cover not only the practice of medicine, but the history and the thought processes behind those involved in the healthcare system.
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medicine
1
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
by Robert Jay Lifton
977 members
9 reviews
4
2 Members
aulsmith, sagsom6
2
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
by Sheri Fink
1,802 members
174 reviews
4.1
2 Members
dara85, aulsmith
3
All Creatures Great and Small
by James Herriot
9,038 members
159 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
cej1027, sagsom6
4
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
by Lisa Sanders
651 members
15 reviews
3.8
Member
SPSONQueens
5
Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
by Pauline W. Chen
505 members
17 reviews
3.8
Member
philosophywolfe
6
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by Matt Ridley
4,022 members
51 reviews
4.1
Member
philosophywolfe
7
My Name Is Mary Sutter
by Robin Oliveira
1,312 members
99 reviews
3.8
Member
dara85
8
Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes
18,673 members
437 reviews
4.1
Member
cej1027
9
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
16,958 members
777 reviews
4.2
Member
philosophywolfe
10
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
13,037 members
237 reviews
3.9
Member
cej1027
11
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
by Philip Yancey
1,866 members
6 reviews
4.1
Member
cej1027
12
The Merck Manual of Medical Information, Home Edition
by Mark H. Beers
1,028 members
3 reviews
4.1
Member
sagsom6
13
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
by Atul Gawande
3,444 members
87 reviews
4.1
Member
philosophywolfe
14
The Anatomy of Melancholy
by Robert Burton
2,446 members
38 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
sagsom6
15
Matilda Bone
by Karen Cushman
1,170 members
19 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
cej1027
16
The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering
by Michael J. Sandel
261 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
philosophywolfe
17
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by Anne Fadiman
5,319 members
133 reviews
4.2
Member
cej1027
18
Principles of Biomedical Ethics
by Tom L. Beauchamp
554 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
philosophywolfe
19
How Doctors Think
by Jerome Groopman
1,747 members
50 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
philosophywolfe
20
Polio: An American Story
by David M. Oshinsky
804 members
17 reviews
4.1
Member
philosophywolfe
21
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
by Sherwin B. Nuland
2,381 members
30 reviews
4.1
Member
philosophywolfe
22
Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character
by Richard Feynman
555 members
9 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
philosophywolfe
23
Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, New and Expanded Edition
by James H. Jones
387 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
philosophywolfe
24
Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell
by Paul A. Lombardo
102 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
philosophywolfe
25
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
by Atul Gawande
2,465 members
72 reviews
4.1
Member
philosophywolfe
26
Identically Different: Why We Can Change Our Genes
by Tim Spector
76 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
philosophywolfe
27
The Constant Gardener
by John le Carré
5,692 members
96 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
philosophywolfe
28
My Sister's Keeper
by Jodi Picoult
22,714 members
714 reviews
4
Member
philosophywolfe
29
Next
by Michael Crichton
7,964 members
174 reviews
3.2
Member
philosophywolfe
30
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande
6,581 members
316 reviews
½ 4.5
31
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
6,065 members
216 reviews
½ 4.3
32
Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
10,587 members
567 reviews
½ 4.3
33
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder
5,410 members
151 reviews
4.1
34
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
12,345 members
476 reviews
4.1
35
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by John M. Barry
4,956 members
144 reviews
3.9
37
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
6,840 members
339 reviews
4.2
38
The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
by Richard Preston
6,805 members
120 reviews
4
39
Gray's Anatomy
by Henry Gray
3,627 members
14 reviews
4
40
An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
4,646 members
66 reviews
4.1
41
Awakenings
by Oliver Sacks
2,738 members
27 reviews
3.9
42
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by Atul Gawande
4,236 members
146 reviews
4
43
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
by Ben Goldacre
3,514 members
114 reviews
4.2
45
State of Wonder
by Ann Patchett
6,904 members
409 reviews
3.9
46
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by Randy Shilts
3,268 members
63 reviews
½ 4.4
47
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
by Adam Kay
2,396 members
85 reviews
4.1
48
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by Laurie Garrett
1,898 members
28 reviews
4.2
49
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
by Henry Marsh
1,325 members
52 reviews
4.1
50
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
by Bill Bryson
3,894 members
119 reviews
4.1
51
Flu
by Gina Kolata
1,413 members
37 reviews
½ 3.7
52
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
by Oliver Sacks
6,068 members
129 reviews
½ 3.7
53
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President
by Candice Millard
3,509 members
173 reviews
½ 4.3
54
The House of God
by Samuel Shem
1,628 members
29 reviews
3.9
55
Migraine
by Oliver Sacks
1,103 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
56
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
by Donald Venes
1,733 members
4 reviews
4.1
57
The Island of the Colorblind
by Oliver Sacks
1,916 members
29 reviews
3.8
58
Harrison's principles of internal medicine
by Anthony S. Fauci
793 members
4 reviews
½ 4.5
59
The Gene: An Intimate History
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
3,305 members
79 reviews
4.2
60
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures: Stories
by Vincent Lam
1,408 members
50 reviews
½ 3.6
61
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
by Abraham Verghese
1,203 members
30 reviews
4.2
62
Plagues and People
by William H. McNeill
2,115 members
22 reviews
4
63
The Physician
by Noah Gordon
3,463 members
62 reviews
4.2
65
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
by W. A. Newman Dorland
799 members
5 reviews
½ 4.3
66
The Covenant of Water
by Abraham Verghese
3,467 members
129 reviews
½ 4.3
67
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
by Jill Bolte Taylor
2,826 members
143 reviews
3.8
68
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
by Ben Goldacre
1,024 members
25 reviews
4.1
69
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
by Michel Foucault
1,450 members
11 reviews
3.9
70
Atlas of Human Anatomy
by Frank H. Netter
1,341 members
7 reviews
½ 4.5
71
Hallucinations
by Oliver Sacks
1,969 members
76 reviews
½ 3.7
72
The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher
by Lewis Thomas
475 members
7 reviews
4.1
73
Goldman-Cecil Medicine
by Lee Goldman
450 members
2 reviews
4.1
74
The Mind's Eye
by Oliver Sacks
1,759 members
69 reviews
½ 3.7
75
Survival of the Sickest
by Sharon Moalem
965 members
25 reviews
4.1
76
A Leg to Stand On
by Oliver Sacks
1,081 members
16 reviews
3.8
77
The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
by Wendy Moore
797 members
27 reviews
4.1
79
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
by Giulia Enders
2,085 members
74 reviews
4
81
Textbook of Medical Physiology
by Arthur C. Guyton
818 members
3 reviews
3.9
83
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
by Nicholas Culpeper
1,022 members
10 reviews
4
84
Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
by Roy Porter
456 members
8 reviews
½ 3.4
85
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
by Mary Roach
2,947 members
186 reviews
4
86
George's Marvelous Medicine
by Roald Dahl
10,951 members
111 reviews
3.8
87
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by John Carreyrou
3,372 members
208 reviews
½ 4.3
88
Gray's Anatomy: The Classic Collector's Edition
by Henry Gray
1,162 members
8 reviews
4.1
89
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
1,296 members
30 reviews
4
90
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
by Lewis Thomas
1,167 members
13 reviews
4
91
Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
by Katrina Firlik
574 members
35 reviews
½ 3.6
92
The Medical Detectives, Volume 1
by Berton Roueché
452 members
1 review
4.1
93
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
by Susannah Cahalan
3,813 members
174 reviews
4
94
Galen and the Gateway to Medicine (Living History Library)
by Jeanne Bendick
850 members
3 reviews
½ 4.5
95
AMA Family Medical Guide
by American M... Association
840 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
96
Seeing Voices
by Oliver Sacks
1,797 members
35 reviews
½ 3.7
98
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
by John Green
2,239 members
78 reviews
4.2
99
Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
by Randolph M. Nesse
481 members
5 reviews
3.8
100
On Doctoring: New, Revised and Expanded Third Edition
by Richard C. Reynolds
397 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7