books by subject
History of Medicine

Penicillin Man

Contact Lenses: The Story

Human Remains

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

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

Medical Detective: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera

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

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

The World's First Women Doctors: Elizabeth Blackwell and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: Band 16/Sapphire (Collins Big Cat)

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

Deadly Companions: How microbes shaped our history

East African Doctors: A History of the Modern Profession

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

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

Doctors in the Medicinal Garden: Plants Named After Physicians

The Inheritor's Powder: A Cautionary Tale of Poison, Betrayal and Greed

Medicine: An Illustrated History

My First 75 Years of Medicine

Promising Genomics: Iceland and deCODE Genetics in a World of Speculation

This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women

Mobilizing Mutations: Human Genetics in the Age of Patient Advocacy

Plagues and Peoples

Nightingales: Florence and Her Family

Doctors and Diseases in the Roman Empire

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

Complementary Therapies in Context: The Psychology of Healing

Mighty Healer: Thomas Holloway's Victorian Patent Medicine Empire

Hunting the 1918 Flu

Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend
