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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

Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted

By Gerald Imber

Pustules, Pestilence and Pain: Tudor Treatments and Ailments of Henry VIII

By Seamus O'Caellaigh

Return of the Black Death: The World's Greatest Serial Killer

By Susan Scott, Christopher J. Duncan

Psychiatry: Past, Present, and Prospect

By Sidney Bloch (Emeritus Professor and Honorary Consultant, Emeritus Professor and Honorary Consultant, University of Melbourne and St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia), Stephen A. Green (Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Clinical Professor of Ps...

Gout: The Patrician Malady

By Roy Porter, G. S. Rousseau

Textbook of Caesarean Section

By Eric Jauniaux (Professor of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, Professor of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, Institute for Women's Health, university college london, London, UK), William Grobman (Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology-Maternal Fetal Medicin...

The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer

By Jennet Conant

Aspirin: The Extraordinary Story of a Wonder Drug

By Diarmuid Jeffreys

The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield's war on vaccines

By Brian Deer

Ancient Medicine

By Vivian Nutton (University College London, UK)

The Timechart History of Medicine: Tracing the History of Medical Practice from 10, 000 BC to Modern Micro-surgery

By John Cule

Illustrated History of Surgery

By Knut Haeger, Knut Hger, Rh Value Publishing

Greek and Roman Medicine

By Professor Helen King (The Open University, UK)

Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused it.

By Gina Bari Kolata

History of Medicine in Great Yarmouth: Hospitals and Doctors

By Paul Pearce Davies

Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine and on the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery

By Louis Pasteur

The Deadly Dinner Party: And Other Medical Detective Stories

By Jonathan A. Edlow

The Geographical Structure of Epidemics

By Peter Haggett

The Development of Medicine for OCR GCSE: Medicine Through Time for OCR GCSE

By Colin Shepard

Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction

By Jim Downs (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Connecticut College)

The Public Health Researcher

By Jeanne Daly, Allan Kellehear, Michael Gliksman