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

By P. K. Leaver

Penicillin Man

By Kevin Brown

Contact Lenses: The Story

By Timothy J. Bowden

Human Remains

By Helen Macdonald

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

By Anna Claybourne

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

By Sandra Hempel

Medical Detective: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera

By Sandra Hempel

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

By Renee C. Fox, Judith P. Swazey

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

By Susan Cohen

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

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

By Philip D. Curtin (The Johns Hopkins 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)

Mobilizing Mutations: Human Genetics in the Age of Patient Advocacy

By Daniel Navon

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

Hunting the 1918 Flu

By Kirsty E. Duncan

Complementary Therapies in Context: The Psychology of Healing

By Helen Graham

Mighty Healer: Thomas Holloway's Victorian Patent Medicine Empire

By Verity Holloway

Nightingales: Florence and Her Family

By Gillian Gill

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

By Steven Johnson

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

By Maggie Andrews, Emma Edwards

Plagues and Peoples

By William H. McNeill

The Story of Medicine

By Richard Walker

Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend

By Mark Bostridge