The Unseen Body: A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy
By: Jonathan Reisman
3.99
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this fascinating journey through the human body and across the globe, Dr. Reisman weaves togethe…
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1. The Valley Of Decision (Regional)
By: Marcia Davenport
4.27
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1942, The Valley of Decision was an instant success, and its story of four … read more
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2. Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body
By: Hugh Aldersey-Williams
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
The human body is the most fraught and fascinating, talked-about and taboo, unique yet universal fa… read more
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3. Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine
By: Paul A. Offit
4.09
Format: None pages, ebook
In Do You Believe in Magic?, medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing expose of the al… read more
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4. When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
By: Frank T. Vertosick Jr.
4.10
Format: 322 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"This book should be read by every medical student, doctor and present or potential patient. In oth… read more
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5. Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began
By: Leah Hazard
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, triumphant investigation of the uterus--from birth to death, in sickness and in h… read more
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6. Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER
By: Farzon A. Nahvi
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Code Gray is a “provocative and meaningful” (Theresa Brown, New York Times bestselling author of He… read more
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7. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.28
Format: 473 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more
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8. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
By: Neil Bradbury
4.12
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more
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"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
9. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
By: Erika Engelhaupt
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more
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"This kind of scientific boldness is something the world could use more of. All too often, we’re hemmed in by our fears and our sense of propriety. Some subjects simply aren’t discussed, or aren’t tak…"-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
10. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
By: Ricardo Nuila
4.38
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more
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11. All the Living and the Dead
By: Hayley Campbell
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more
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"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead
12. A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
By: Sara Manning Peskin
4.21
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the ve… read more
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13. Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
By: Lydia Kang
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A very timely history of disease outbreaks, from the authors of Quackery: stories of outbreaks (and… read more
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14. The Unseen Body: A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy
By: Jonathan Reisman
3.99
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this fascinating journey through the human body and across the globe, Dr. Reisman weaves togethe… read more
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- medicine
- nonfiction
- popular science
- education
- audiobook
15. Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
By: Ira Rutkow
3.92
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From an eminent surgeon and historian comes the “by turns fascinating and ghastly” (The New York Ti… read more
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16. Heart: A History
By: Sandeep Jauhar
4.07
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
The heart lies at the centre of every facet of our existence. It’s so bound up with our deepest fee… read more
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"For even if the heart is not the seat of the emotions, it is highly responsive to them."-Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: A History
"Continuous blood flow is antithetical to the way that humans, pulsatile beings, evolved. Though continuous flow can keep us alive, it alters ours physiology in idiosyncratic and unpredictable ways."-Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: A History
"In many ways, the heart does resemble a house. It is divided into multiple chambers, separated by doors. The walls have a characteristic texture. The house is old, designed over many millennia. Hidde…"-Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: A History
"Traditional" Japanese immigrants had coronary disease rates in line with their homeland counterparts. "Westernised" immigrants had a prevalence that was at least 3 times higher. "Retention of Japanes…"-Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: A History
17. Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation
By: Christopher Kemp
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
How the brain helps us to understand and navigate space—and why, sometimes, it doesn’t work the way… read more
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18. Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
By: Paul Craddock
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Why did eighteenth-century dentists buy the live teeth of poor children?And what role did a sausage… read more
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19. Prímszámok hóesésben
By: Tibor Bödőcs
3.64
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Bödőcs új könyvének „miniatűrjeiből” mozaikszerűen rajzolódik ki jelen világunk tragikomikus képe. … read more
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20. Bones: Inside and Out
By: Roy A. Meals
3.85
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A lively, illustrated exploration of the 500-million-year history of bone, a touchstone for underst… read more
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21. Face
By: Joma West
3.15
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Life is competitive; all the best babies are designed now. Schuyler and Madeline Burroughs have … read more
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