15 Best history books like If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

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If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine

By: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize finalist's bizarre journalistic journey through the world of fringe medicine, fill…

If you liked the history plot in If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Thin Skin: Essays

By: Jenn Shapland

4.02

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

From a National Book Award finalist and a powerful literary mind, an incisive new work examining ca… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud

By: Ben McKenzie

None

Format: None pages, None

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR… read more

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3. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

By: Dan Egan

4.23

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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4. Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat

By: Derek Beres

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Conspirituality takes a deep dive into the troubling phenomenon of influencers who have curdled New… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
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5. The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

By: Samantha Leach

3.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Three suburban girls meet at a boarding school for troubled teens. Eight years later, they were de… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. 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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  • audiobook
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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7. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

By: Zeke Faux

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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8. Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices

By: Noah Whiteman

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An evolutionary biologist tells the story of nature’s toxins and why we are attracted—and addicted—… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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9. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

By: Audrey Clare Farley

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • medical
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
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10. Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health

By: Anupam B. Jena

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • science
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11. Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York

By: Barbara Weisberg

3.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Shocking revelations of a wife’s adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
  • audiobook
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12. Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

By: Taylor Lorenz

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans by Jane Marie

13. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

By: Jane Marie

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
  • audiobook
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14. Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America

By: Therese Oneill

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A quippy and irreverent collection of illustrated profiles of the great American women who weren’t … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
  • audiobook
"[A woman] takes up just the right amount of space. Small is best. You need to prove yourself worthy of the molecules you displace, madam."

-Therese Oneill, Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America

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15. Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World

By: Yepoka Yeebo

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of t… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning

By: A.J. Jacobs

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically attempts to follow the origi… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine

By: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize finalist's bizarre journalistic journey through the world of fringe medicine, fill… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling's If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine book and Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling's If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine

  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • science
Cover of Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy by Colin Dickey

18. Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy

By: Colin Dickey

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland comes a history of America's obse… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories, and Secrets from the Trillion-Dollar Fraud Industry by Kelly Richmond Pope

19. Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories, and Secrets from the Trillion-Dollar Fraud Industry

By: Kelly Richmond Pope

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A riveting look at the perpetrators, victims, and whistleblowers behind financial crimes, from fore… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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20. The Wisdom of Plagues: Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics

By: Donald G. Mcneil Jr.

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning New York Times reporter Donald G. McNeil, Jr. reflects on twenty-five years of coveri… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

21. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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Anupam B. Jena

3.68

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Barbara Weisberg

3.43

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Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

Jane Marie

3.78

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3.72

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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie

4.10

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Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

Shannon Reed

3.71

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Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

Rebecca Boyle

3.95

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Omid Scobie

3.31

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