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George III and the Mad-business

By Ida Macalpine, Richard A. Hunter

This Mortal Coil: A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year

By Andrew Doig

The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

By Lindsey Fitzharris

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

By Jim Downs (Assistant Professor of History and American Studies, Assistant Professor of History and American Studies, Connecticut College, New York, NY)

A Second Voice: A Century of Osteopathic Medicine in Ohio

By Carol Poh Miller

Quantitative and Numerical Methods in Soil Classification and Survey

By R. Webster

Plague: A Very Short Introduction

By Paul Slack (Emeritus Professor of Early Modern Social History, Oxford University)

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

By P. Colm Malone, Paul S. Agutter

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

By Roy Porter

East African Doctors: A History of the Modern Profession

By John Iliffe (University of Cambridge)

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)

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

By Philip D. Curtin (The Johns Hopkins University)

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

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

By Susan Cohen

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

By Renee C. Fox, Judith P. Swazey

Medical Detective: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera

By Sandra Hempel

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

By Sandra Hempel

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

By Anna Claybourne

Human Remains

By Helen Macdonald

Contact Lenses: The Story

By Timothy J. Bowden

Penicillin Man

By Kevin Brown

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

By P. K. Leaver

The Eyes Have it: A Personal View

By Christopher Liu

The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis

By Thomas Dormandy

Pioneer Work In Opening The Medical Profession To Women

By Elizabeth Blackwell, Amy Sue Bix

Doctors in Denial: The Forgotten Women in the 'Unfortunate Experiment'

By Ronald W Jones

The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

By Thomas Morris

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

By Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen

This Mortal Coil: A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year

By Andrew Doig

Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine

By Regina Morantz-Sanchez