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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 Unmapped Mind: A Memoir of Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis and Learning How to Live

By Christian Donlan

Doctors and Diseases in the Roman Empire

By Ralph Jackson

Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book: An Englishwoman's Life During the Civil War

By Lucy Moore

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

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

By P. Colm Malone, Paul S. Agutter

Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist)

By Sarah Chaney

Wounded: The Long Journey Home From the Great War

By Emily Mayhew

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

By Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen

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

By Thomas Morris

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

By Andrew Doig

Dates in Obstetrics and Gynecology: A Chronological Record of Progress in Obstetrics and Gynecology over the Last Millennium

By H S.J. Lee

Evaluating the National Health Service (State of Health)

By Powell, Martin A.