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Florence Nightingale

By Catherine M. Swift

Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted

By Gerald Imber

Breaking Through: My Life In Science

By Katalin Kariko

Look No Hands!: The Inspiring Story of Brian Gault

By Helena Rogers, Brian Gault

Sobering: Lessons Learnt the Hard Way on Drinking, Thinking and Quitting

By Melissa Rice

The Tales and Tails of a Yorkshire Vet: All in a Day's Work

By Peter Wright

Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner

By Michael M. Baden, Judith Adler Hennessee, John Canning, Judith Adler Hennesse

You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor's Stories of Life, Death and in Between

By Dr. Daniela Lamas

Breaking & Mending: A junior doctor's stories of compassion & burnout

By Joanna Cannon

Heart: A History: Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019

By Sandeep Jauhar

Pure: Now a major Channel 4 series

By Rose Bretecher

A Nurse Abroad: Adventures in nursing, from the Arctic to the Outback

By Anne Watts

Life in the Balance: A Doctor's Stories of Intensive Care

By Dr Jim Down

999 - My Life on the Frontline of the Ambulance Service

By Dan Farnworth

More Tales from The Island Nurse

By mary macleod

Listen: How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations

By Kathryn Mannix

Sisters of the East End

By Helen Batten

The Skeleton Cupboard: The making of a clinical psychologist

By Tanya Byron

Cancer on Five Dollars a Day (chemo not included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life

By Alan Eisenstock, Robert Schimmel

Nightingales: Florence and Her Family

By Gillian Gill

Life After Darkness: A Doctor's Journey Through Severe Depression

By Cathy Wield

Green Oranges on Lion Mountain

By Emily Joy

In Stitches

By Nick Edwards

Mighty Healer: Thomas Holloway's Victorian Patent Medicine Empire

By Verity Holloway

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

By Maddox, Brenda

The Doctors' Tale - Professionalism and Public Trust

By Donald Irvine

That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour

By Sunita Puri

Urgent Calls from Distant Places: An Emergency Doctor's Notes about Life and Death on the Frontiers of East Africa

By Marc-David Munk

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

By Mary Seacole

Letters from Egypt: A Journey on the Nile 1849-50

By Florence Nightingale, Anthony Sattin