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Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book: An Englishwoman's Life During the Civil War

By Lucy Moore

Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist)

By Sarah Chaney

The Aetiology of Deep Venous Thrombosis: A Critical, Historical and Epistemological Survey

By P. Colm Malone, Paul S. Agutter

Pioneer Work In Opening The Medical Profession To Women

By Elizabeth Blackwell, Amy Sue Bix

The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis

By Thomas Dormandy

The Eyes Have it: A Personal View

By Christopher Liu

The History of Moorfields Eye Hospital: Forty Years On: v.III

By P. K. Leaver

Penicillin Man

By Kevin Brown

Contact Lenses: The Story

By Timothy J. Bowden

Human Remains

By Helen Macdonald

Deadly Diseases and Curious Cures: Age 9-10, average readers

By Anna Claybourne

The Medical Detective: John Snow, Cholera And The Mystery Of The Broad Street Pump

By Sandra Hempel

Medical Detective: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera

By Sandra Hempel

The Courage to Fail: A Social View of Organ Transplants and Dialysis

By Renee C. Fox, Judith P. Swazey

The NHS: Britain's National Health Service, 1948-2020

By Susan Cohen

The World's First Women Doctors: Elizabeth Blackwell and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: Band 16/Sapphire (Collins Big Cat)

By Isabel Thomas, Cliff Moon, Collins Big Cat

Disease and Empire: The Health of European Troops in the Conquest of Africa

By Philip D. Curtin (The Johns Hopkins University)

Deadly Companions: How microbes shaped our history

By Dorothy H. Crawford (Professor of Medical Microbiology and Assistant Principal for the Public Understanding of Medicine, University of Edinburgh)

East African Doctors: A History of the Modern Profession

By John Iliffe (University of Cambridge)

Patients and Practitioners: Lay Perceptions of Medicine in Pre-industrial Society

By Roy Porter

Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug

By Diarmuid Jeffreys

Nursing and Midwifery in Britain Since 1700

By Anne Borsay, Billie Hunter

The Philosophical Foundations of Modern Medicine

By K. Lee

The Politics of Addiction: Medical Conflict and Drug Dependence in England Since the 1960s

By S. Mars

An Introduction to the Social History of Medicine: Europe Since 1500

By Keir Waddington (School of History, Archaeology and Relig, Cardiff)

Frigidity: An Intellectual History

By P. Cryle, A. Moore

Medicine At The Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present

By A. Bashford

Dangerous Motherhood: Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain

By H. Marland

Women and the Practice of Medical Care in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800

By L. Whaley

Pain: A Cultural History

By J. Moscoso