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

By Colin Shepard

The Geographical Structure of Epidemics

By Peter Haggett

The Deadly Dinner Party: And Other Medical Detective Stories

By Jonathan A. Edlow

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

By Louis Pasteur

History of Medicine in Great Yarmouth: Hospitals and Doctors

By Paul Pearce Davies

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

By Gina Bari Kolata

Greek and Roman Medicine

By Professor Helen King (The Open University, UK)

Illustrated History of Surgery

By Knut Haeger, Knut Hger, Rh Value Publishing

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

By John Cule

Ancient Medicine

By Vivian Nutton (University College London, UK)

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

By Brian Deer

Aspirin: The Extraordinary Story of a Wonder Drug

By Diarmuid Jeffreys

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

By Jennet Conant

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...

Gout: The Patrician Malady

By Roy Porter, G. S. Rousseau

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...

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

By Susan Scott, Christopher J. Duncan

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

By Seamus O'Caellaigh

Illness as Metaphor and Aids and Its Metaphors

By Susan Sontag

Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow

By Peter Vinten-Johansen (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History), Howard Brody (Professor of Family Practice, Ethics and Philosophy, Professor of Family Practice, Ethics and Philosophy), Nigel Paneth (Professor of Epidemiology and...

The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers

By Joanna Bourke (Professor of History, Professor of History, Birkbeck, University of London)

The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play

By James C. Whorton (Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle)

Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914

By Elizabeth Kelly Gray (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Towson 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)

Scalpels, Stitches and Scars: A History of Surgery (Raintree Freestyle: A Painful History of Medicine)

By John Townsend

Human Anatomy: Depicting the Body from the Renaissance to Today

By Benjamin A. Rifkin, Michael J. Ackerman, Judith Folkenberg

Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio

By Gareth Williams

The Notorious Astrological Physician of London: Works and Days of Simon Forman

By Barbara Howard Traister

The Intentional Brain: Motion, Emotion, and the Development of Modern Neuropsychiatry

By michael r. trimble