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The Fountain of Health: A-Z of Traditional Chinese Medicine

By Charles Windridge, Xiaochun Wu

The Story of Medicine

By Richard Walker

Fighting Fit: The Wartime Battle for Britain's Health

By Laura Dawes

Doctors in the Medicinal Garden: Plants Named After Physicians

By Dr. Henry Oakeley

Doctors in the Medicinal Garden: Plants Named After Physicians

By Dr. Henry Oakeley

The Inheritor's Powder: A Cautionary Tale of Poison, Betrayal and Greed

By Sandra Hempel

Medicine: An Illustrated History

By Albert S. Lyons, R.Joseph Petrucelli, R. Joseph Petrucelli II

My First 75 Years of Medicine

By Alexander Macdougall Cooke

Promising Genomics: Iceland and deCODE Genetics in a World of Speculation

By Michael A. Fortun

This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women

By Marieke Bigg

Mobilizing Mutations: Human Genetics in the Age of Patient Advocacy

By Daniel Navon

Plagues and Peoples

By William H. McNeill

Bovril,Whisky and Gravediggers: The Spanish Flue Pandemic comes to the West Midlands (1918-1920)

By Maggie Andrews, Emma Edwards

Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend

By Mark Bostridge

Hunting the 1918 Flu

By Kirsty E. Duncan

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks.

By Steven Johnson

Nightingales: Florence and Her Family

By Gillian Gill

Mighty Healer: Thomas Holloway's Victorian Patent Medicine Empire

By Verity Holloway

Complementary Therapies in Context: The Psychology of Healing

By Helen Graham

Autism: A Social and Medical History

By M. Waltz

A History of Accident and Emergency Medicine, 1948-2004

By H. Guly

Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter

By R. Bivins, J. Pickstone

Environment, Health and History

By V. Berridge, M. Gorsky

Health and Medicine in Britain since 1860

By Anne Hardy

Modernism and Eugenics

By M. Turda

Medicine and the Market in England and its Colonies, c.1450- c.1850

By M. Jenner, P. Wallis

John Clare: A Literary Life

By R. Sales

Ways of Regulating Drugs in the 19th and 20th Centuries

By V. Hess

Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity

By Virginia Smith (Freelance historian)

An Outline History of Medicine

By Philip Rhodes