History Books


Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Best Price: $6.91 This book is fantastic FUN! Roach is an interesting and hilarous writer. She thinks like most...	The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Best Price: $7.56 Essential reading in understanding why the Enlightenment ideal of rationality is dead or at...	Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story Best Price: $2.56 Amazing, this man knew what he wanted to do at an early age, with his Mother's hard work, he was...	The Web That Has No Weaver : Understanding Chinese Medicine Best Price: $11.97 This book is great for the student and profesional alike. It explanes everything in a way that...	The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World Best Price: $6.00 Steven Johnson's book, The Ghost Map, tells the story of how a doctor, John Snow, and a local...



Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, ... Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics Best Price: $12.68 As a native New Orleanian, I was 20 years old when Dr. Sherman was murdered and remember parts...	Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam Best Price: $15.33 I picked up this book after reading its 5 star review in an Audio magazine. Every page makes...	The Uncertain Art: Thoughts on a Life in Medicine Best Price: $14.49 I enjoyed this book, as I do all of Nuland's offerings, but it wasn't riveting - it was more...	How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter Best Price: $4.20 Prepare yourself for a collection of voyeuristic anecdotal accounts of the dying experience. ...	Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine Best Price: $7.53 As a former massage therapist with a keen interest in holistic health and wellness, I found...



Freud And Beyond: A History Of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought Best Price: $7.13 I received this book by accident.It was bought as a present for another person and was left at...	The Social Transformation of American Medicine Best Price: $14.00 The evolution of American medicine is a fascinating story and it is told very well. The...	Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence Best Price: $4.69 Continuing his desire to share what he has learned in his journey to greatness, Dr. Carson lays...	The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history Best Price: $6.49 A detailed look at the horrible influenza epidemic that decimated not only the United States but...	The Secret History of the War on Cancer Best Price: $12.99 No wonder people want to shut her down - she cites the truth about corporations and government...

Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial Best Price: $7.50 It's horrifying to read about our dependence on drugs. I was shocked with the first story: A...	The Second Brain: A Groundbreaking New Understanding of Nervous Disorders of the Stomach and Intestine Best Price: $7.80 I started reading this book after The Colbert Report plugged it (IIRC) as kind of a joke about...	The Medical Detectives (Plume) Best Price: $3.99 Berton Rouech? wrote for the "New Yorker" magazine for almost half a century, and was...	The DOs: Osteopathic Medicine in America Best Price: $14.83 I read this book within a week...I never read books that fast. Gevitz's writing style is highly...	When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery Best Price: $8.84 I have read many medical memoir books and this tops them all! Having shadowed a neurosurgeon for...

Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications Best Price: $11.88 This is an important and highly readable account, by one of the world's leading authorities on...	Plagues and Peoples Best Price: $7.94 This is a very interesting book it makes you think about the role diseases have played to make...	Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer Best Price: $18.75 An obsession with perpetual youth may seem a particularly modern phenomenon, but it is a goal...	Wood Becomes Water: Chinese Medicine in Everyday Life Best Price: $11.27 this books is well written and provides a beautiful overview of the 5 elements and how they...	In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made Best Price: $4.00 "In The Wake Of The Plague" is a curious book by Norman F. Cantor where a lot of...

A Brief History of Disease, Science and Medicine Best Price: $24.74 I got a chuckle from a recent review by Seven Octaves. It was similar to a review in the...	Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside Best Price: $4.25 In general, this is the type of book I love - a first-hand account of someone's life and...	Where is the Mango Princess? Best Price: $7.89 Crimmon's book was heart-wrenching to read. The story of her husband's TBI (Traumatic Brain...	Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) Best Price: $7.94 If you care about your own health or of those you love, read this book and then start...	Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America Best Price: $7.69 I was required to read this book for a Social Problems Analysis class. Before, I had never...

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine: A New Translation of the Neijing Suwen with Commentary Best Price: $14.06 First off I would like to address a point made earlier by another reviewer who called into...	Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and The Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill Best Price: $10.19 After reading many of the negative reviews of this book, I believe many of these reviewers miss...	The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink Best Price: $6.64 Engaging, enlightening -- could not put the book down. If you drink water you must educate...	Healing from the Heart: A Leading Surgeon Combines Eastern and Western Traditions to Create the Medicine of the Future Best Price: $4.25 Dr. Oz really has compassion as well as expertise. His medical credentials are superb and his...	Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born Best Price: $6.75 So many of my friends were pushed into birth experiences that were not what they expected by not...

Voices of Qi: An Introductory Guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine Best Price: $7.99 This is a good book for general and basic information about TCM. It lacks details about...	Emerging Viruses: AIDS And Ebola : Nature, Accident or Intentional? Best Price: $18.80 The reviewer "A Customer" says that the US code title 50 section 32 is about fish and...	Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Glass Mountain Pamphlets) Best Price: $5.10 I purchased this book looking for an historical perspective of women healers. Although this book...	The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) Best Price: $10.13 Unbelievable history of the vibrator. Who knew??? It is fascinating and well written. For men...	Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World Best Price: $26.91 Diseases have significantly shaped the course of the world's history. From the...

The Successful Physician: A Productivity Handbook for Practitioners Best Price: $35.00 Don't read this book if you can take a few hundred hours off from your practice and conduct your...	The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis Best Price: $10.85 There's a lot of noise about vaccines today, what with bird flu and who knows what over the...	The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy Best Price: $11.65 The Anatomist is a delightfully told story about Henry Gray and Henry (HV) Carter, the author...	The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center Best Price: $11.50 This is a fascinating book, whether one is a heart patient oneself or not. The hospital in...	How Doctors Think: Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine Best Price: $28.00 This is an incisive, and personal, analysis of how physicians think. It analyzes the foundations...

Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic Best Price: $1.67 I bought this book looking for information about Spanish Flu for a novel I was writing. I had...	A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years As A Medical Student I'm thinking about going to medical school, and this book was recommended to me to get a flavor...	The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery Best Price: $5.95 Funny how I'd always confused John Hunter with his brother William whose reputation as a prig...	Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical This is a very interesting book. Aside from learning about Mary, you also get a history of New...	The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity Best Price: $8.42 Roy has an erudite style and a level of detail that makes this book both a joy to read and a...

Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, Revised Edition Best Price: $8.99 this is a truly fascinating read, and i recommend it to anyone curious. i read this at the...	The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology Best Price: $38.84 Judson tells the story of the birth of molecular biology and giants who nurtured it. Insightful...	Birth of the Clinic, The: An Archaeology of Medical Perception Best Price: $8.13 Birth of the Clinic is a partner to Discipline and Punish: Birth of the Prison. They are both...

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