You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation
By: Paul A. Offit
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
One of America’s top physicians traces the history of risk in medicine—with powerful lessons for to…
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1. The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
By: Jerome Groopman
3.65
Format: None pages,
An inspiring and profoundly enlightening exploration of one doctor's discovery of how hope can chan… read more
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2. Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
By: Dan Saladino
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s… read more
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"The science writer David Quammen puts it: 'When we disrupt ecosystems, we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts, and when they happens, they need a new host. Often, we are it. And so, they spi…"-Dan Saladino, Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
3. How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
By: Tim Harford
4.12
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
When was the last time you read a grand statement, accompanied by a large number, and wondered whet… read more
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4. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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5. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
4.14
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Natha… read more
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6. This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy
By: Jonathan Martin
4.00
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by… read more
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7. Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
By: Dan Ariely
3.92
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
“In this thoughtful, moving, and well-written book, Dan Ariely narrates his personal and profession… read more
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"A higher level of income inequality in our community can fray our sense of social trust."-Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
"How can science - which is slow and methodical, providing only an occasional breakthrough - compete with creative minds unfettered by facts?"-Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
"Would you enthusiastically recommend that a friend purchase something you'd never tested yourself? Probably not. But you may be unwittingly doing this with information every day."-Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
"[M]isbelief is enormously engaging and even fun for those who become deeply involved in its cleverly constructed alternate worlds. People who work in the gaming industry have drawn striking parallels…"-Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
8. For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug
By: Nathan Vardi
4.30
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A gripping business narrative and scientific thriller about what it takes to bring a wonder drug to… read more
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9. Tell Me Who You Are
By: Louisa Luna
3.57
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The Silent Patient meets Gone Girl in this sharp psychological thriller about a psychiatrist with a… read more
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10. Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
By: Ben Westhoff
4.02
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illici… read more
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11. Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back
By: Oliver Bullough
4.20
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in Knightsbridge and Manhattan, som… read more
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12. The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses
By: Guy Leschziner
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In The Man Who Tasted Words, neurologist Guy Leschziner leads readers through the five senses and h… read more
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"[...] the absence of sensation can be devastating. But an absence of pain – the loudest of our sensations – sounds like a blessing, not a curse. Pain screams its way into our consciousness, blotting …"-Guy Leschziner, The Man Who Tasted Words: A Neurologist Explores the Strange and Startling World of Our Senses
13. The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
By: Tom Ireland
4.43
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions of microscopic combatants are fight… read more
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14. How to Stay in Love: A Divorce Lawyer's Guide to Staying Together
By: James J. Sexton
4.20
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
Hard-hitting divorce lawyer James J. Sexton shares his insights and wisdom to help you reverse-engi… read more
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15. Breaking Through: My Life in Science
By: Katalin Karikó
4.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist wh… read more
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16. The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
By: Nichola Raihani
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"Enriching" ― Publisher's Weekly "Excellent and illuminating"― Wall Street Journal In the traditi… read more
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17. The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA
By: Jorge L. Contreras
4.28
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In this riveting, behind-the-scenes courtroom drama, a brilliant legal team battles corporate greed… read more
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18. You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation
By: Paul A. Offit
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
One of America’s top physicians traces the history of risk in medicine—with powerful lessons for to… read more
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19. Stuck
By: Heidi J. Larson
3.68
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Vaccine reluctance and refusal are no longer limited to the margins of society. Debates around vacc… read more
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20. Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery
By: Theodore H. Schwartz
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
“If you are at all curious about the brain or the surgeons who operate on it, Gray Matters is a mus… read more
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21. Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
By: Marty Makary
4.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Pr… read more
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