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The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs

By Sabrina Sholts, Lonnie G. Bunch, III

Quality and Quantity: The Quest for Biological Regeneration in Twentieth-Century France

By William H. Schneider (Purdue University, Indiana)

Infections, Chronic Disease, and the Epidemiological Transition: A New Perspective

By Alexander Mercer

The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine

By Nathaniel Comfort

Rituals & Myths in Nursing: A Social History

By Claire Laurent

Pocket Book of Paediatric Antimicrobial Therapy: 1998-99

By John D. Nelson

Extremes: How Far Can You Go to Save a Life?

By Kevin Fong

Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A History Of The Modern Menopause

By Louise Foxcroft

Evaluating the National Health Service (State of Health)

By Powell, Martin A.

Safety as We Watch: Anaesthesia in Ireland 1847-1998: 2022

By Declan Warde, Joseph Tracey, John Cahill

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

By Philip D. Curtin (The Johns Hopkins University)

Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution

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

Nursing and Midwifery in Britain Since 1700

By Anne Borsay, Billie Hunter

Frigidity: An Intellectual History

By P. Cryle, A. Moore

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

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

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

By S. Mars

The Philosophical Foundations of Modern Medicine

By K. Lee

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

By Roy Porter

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)

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

By P. K. Leaver

Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug

By Diarmuid Jeffreys